{"id":4944,"date":"2008-11-29T09:58:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-29T08:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=4944"},"modified":"2008-11-29T09:58:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-29T08:58:51","slug":"bush-speaks-of-legacy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/bush-speaks-of-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Speaks of Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/eartotheground\/item\/20081128_bush_speaks_of_legacy\/\">Truthdig<\/a> | Still-President Bush has discussed his legacy with his sister Dorothy Bush Koch as part of a national oral-history project, suggesting the future should remember him for his \u201cliberation\u201d of 50 million people and reluctance to \u201csell his soul &#8230; to accommodate the political process\u201d\u2013likely referring to that which is outlined in the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><strong>ABC News:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: x-small;\">In a personal and wide-ranging interview conducted by his sister about his legacy, his faith and the influence of his father, President George W. Bush said he hopes to be remembered as a liberator of the Iraqi people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u201cI\u2019d like to be a president [known] as somebody who liberated 50 million people and helped achieve peace,\u201d Bush told his sister, Dorothy Bush Koch, in a conversation recorded for the oral-history organization StoryCorps for the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: x-small;\">\u201cI would like to be a person remembered as a person who, first and foremost, did not sell his soul in order to accommodate the political process,\u201d Bush said, according to White House excerpts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: x-small;\">The president told his sister he is proud of the \u201ctough decisions\u201d he made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: x-small;\"><a title=\"Read more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/story?id=6353033&amp;page=1\"><strong><span style=\"color: #5e4531;\">Read more<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Truthdig | Still-President Bush has discussed his legacy with his sister Dorothy Bush Koch as part of a national oral-history project, suggesting the future should remember him for his \u201cliberation\u201d of 50 million people and reluctance to \u201csell his soul &#8230; to accommodate the political process\u201d\u2013likely referring to that which is outlined in the U.S. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[27],"class_list":{"0":"post-4944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-bush"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}