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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 817183" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122901896.html" target="_blank">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122901896.html</a></p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Tuesday, December 30, 2008 </span> </p><p> In what without a doubt is the most astounding op-ed piece of the year, Karl Rove reveals that his friend and former boss, George W. Bush, has read probably hundreds of books over the course of his presidency. </p><p></p><p>In his column, Rove says that Bush read 95 books in 2006 alone. In 2007, he read 51 books and as of last week, he had read 40 in 2008. The numbers are precise because Bush challenged Rove to a contest: who could read the most books. Rove always won, but Bush had the ready excuse that he was, as he put it, busy being "Leader of the Free World."</p><p> Rove appreciates that he's written a caricature-buster. "In the 35 years I've known George W. Bush, he's always had a book nearby," he writes. "He plays up being a good ol' boy from Midland, Texas, but he was a history major at Yale and graduated from Harvard Business School. You don't make it through either unless you are a reader."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 817183, member: 12952"] [URL]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/29/AR2008122901896.html[/URL] [SIZE=2]Tuesday, December 30, 2008 [/SIZE] In what without a doubt is the most astounding op-ed piece of the year, Karl Rove reveals that his friend and former boss, George W. Bush, has read probably hundreds of books over the course of his presidency. In his column, Rove says that Bush read 95 books in 2006 alone. In 2007, he read 51 books and as of last week, he had read 40 in 2008. The numbers are precise because Bush challenged Rove to a contest: who could read the most books. Rove always won, but Bush had the ready excuse that he was, as he put it, busy being "Leader of the Free World." Rove appreciates that he's written a caricature-buster. "In the 35 years I've known George W. Bush, he's always had a book nearby," he writes. "He plays up being a good ol' boy from Midland, Texas, but he was a history major at Yale and graduated from Harvard Business School. You don't make it through either unless you are a reader." [/QUOTE]
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