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To: Grainne who wrote (88994)	11/21/2004 10:08:29 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Bush was an avid reader as well. During the campaign, Frank Bruni of the New York Times wrote in the paper that Bush was not a great reader of books. When Bush next spotted Bruni—whom he called Panchito, a Spanish derivative of Frank—in a parking lot, Bush drove his sport utility vehicle over to him. After rolling down the window, he asked how he was. “Tired,” Bruni said. “I got up early,” Bush said, “because I was in the middle of a really good book.” He snapped off a “touché” and drove off. After that encounter, Bush would brandish books like Titan, a biography of John D. Rockefeller, and show how far he had read. He and Bruni exchanged recommendations on novels, including In the Lake of the Woods by Tim O’Brien (Bush’s) and The Concrete Blonde by Michael Connelly (Bruni’s). Based on Bush’s reviews of those books and others, Bruni concluded that Bush was, in fact, a “pretty steady consumer of books” and that his report in the Times had been wrong. In fact, Logan Walters, his personal assistant, said Bush was a “voracious reader” who constantly read books during his free time on planes, at night, and on weekends. They were a mix of non-fiction—usually history—and mystery novels. Often, Karl Rove recommended the history books. At the same time, as someone who rarely watched TV and never read magazines like People, Bush was not up on pop culture. He did not know what the TV show Friends was or who Leonardo DiCaprio was. ronaldkessler.com There's a lot more info on the real George Bush besides that short excerpt on that link. Well worth reading.