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From: LindyBill	12/20/2004 7:54:03 AM
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Kristol Scotches Rumor on Rumsfeld Bashing By Mike Allen washingtonpost.com Monday, December 20, 2004; Page A13 The morning after President Bush's pair of holiday parties for journalists last week, White House press secretary Scott McClellan was asked at a briefing to react to Weekly Standard editor William Kristol telling "everyone within earshot" that the White House had encouraged him to write an opinion article in The Washington Post that began a wave of conservative criticism of Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. "I was within earshot -- I didn't hear him say that," McClellan replied coyly. The attacks on Rumsfeld have been a surprising wrinkle in Bush's roll-out of his second-term Cabinet, and it would be explosive if they had been condoned. Not so, said an amused Kristol, who said someone must have overheard him joking about what he would say when he had his photo taken with the president and first lady Laura Bush later in the party. Kristol said it is not true that there has been "any kind of White House encouragement or back-channel contact." "I maybe said that if he pats me on the back and says, 'Good op-ed, Bill,' that would indicate something," Kristol said. The editor said he used his few seconds with Bush to thank him for awards he had given his parents, neoconservative writer Irving Kristol and historian Gertrude Himmelfarb. The Rumsfeld article did not come up.

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