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Richard Clarke: “…we were readying for a principals’ meeting in July, but the principals’ calendar was full, and then they went on vacation, many of them, in August, so we couldn’t meet in August, and therefore the principals met in September.”
According to a CBS piece on presidential vacations:
Prior to Sept. 11, 2001, The Manchester Guardian calculated that Mr. Bush, in his first seven months of office spent 42 percent of his time on holiday, “a whopping 54 days at his Texas ranch, 38 days at the presidential retreat at Camp David and four more at his parents’ place in Kennebunkport, Maine.”
Hardworking Americans understand why this might have been a problem. The guy was a lazy bastard from the get-go.