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COPYRIGHT 2005 The Miami Herald
Byline: Edward Wasserman
See what you think. A Bush family friend and political loyalist records a series of conversations with George W. Bush from 1998 to 2000, when the future president is weighing his political prospects. Bush doesn't know he's being taped and speaks unguardedly about his plans and hopes.
Years pass, and now the friend, who's preparing a book on presidential families, plays a dozen of the tapes for a New York Times reporter. The Times runs a front-page story on the pre-president's private musings.
The story is a yawner. The Times itself admits: ''The private Mr. Bush sounds remarkably similar in many ways to the public President Bush.'' The most newsworthy elements? Bush tap-dances around the question of whether...
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