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To: Rick Faurot who wrote (34528)	1/8/2004 9:40:03 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 89467

Wonderful, my friend.

To: Rick Faurot who wrote (34528)	1/9/2004 11:53:41 AM
From: Rick Faurot	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 89467

Former Treasury Sec. Paints Bush as 'Blind Man' Fri January 9, 2004 10:44 AM ET WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill likened President Bush at Cabinet meetings to "a blind man in a room full of deaf people," according to excerpts on Friday from a CBS interview. O'Neill, who was fired by Bush in December 2002, also said the president did not ask him a single question during their first one-on-one meeting, which lasted an hour. "As I recall it was just a monologue," he told CBS' "60 Minutes," which will broadcast the entire interview on Sunday. In making the blind man analogy, O'Neill told CBS his ex-boss did not encourage a free flow of ideas or open debate. "There is no discernible connection," CBS quoted O'Neill as saying. The president's lack of engagement left his advisers with "little more than hunches about what the president might think," O'Neill said, according to the program. CBS said much of O'Neill's criticisms of Bush are included in "The Price of Loyalty," an upcoming book by former Wall Street Journal reporter Ron Suskind. © Reuters 2004. All Rights Reserved.