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"No President has ever done more for human rights than I have" |
Press release, New Yorker
Jan. 11, 2004
... After [New Yorker reporter Ken] Auletta observed an Oval Office interview Bush gave to a British tabloid, he spoke with the President about a mutual friend, Tom Bernstein, a former co-owner, with Bush, of the Texas Rangers. Bernstein, a proponent of human rights, has often been criticized by liberal friends, for supporting the President. "Bernie is great," Bush said, and then added, "No President has ever done more for human rights than I have."
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The New Yorker
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Lowdown, by Lloyd Grove, New York Daily News
Jan. 11, 2004
He didn't free the slaves.
He didn't rid the world of Hitler.
He didn't even — like his father — preside over the destruction of the Berlin Wall.
Yet George W. Bush tells New Yorker writer Ken Auletta: "No President has ever done more for human rights than I have."
With stunners like that, no wonder he spends so little time with journalists ...
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New York Daily News
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