As one of the speech writers for George W. Bush in the White House - Matt Latimer coined such phrases as: “We will rid the world of the evil-doers”, “If money isn’t loosened up, this sucker could go down”, “nucular”! Actually, I don’t know if he came up with those, but we’ll ask him if he did. We’ll also ask him what is was like working for “W”? What it was like working in the White House…and if Dick Cheney really is evil?
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David Lee Evans // Nov 2, 2009 at 2:04 pm
Since I have not attained a copy of Mr.Latimer’s book yet, I have to reserve detail judgment, upon the exact particulars of this book. However I have seen numerous reviews about the book and I worked for one of the persons mentioned in the book, namely a Mr. Rumsfeld. What strikes me odd, are the excerpts and quotes from the book about Donald Rumsfeld, since I had the opportunity, the privilege to observe this man’s work, first hand from 1990-1993, for a total of four years. Mr.Rumsfeld was always the motivator, always inspiring. The fact that Latimer’s book paints Mr.Rumsfeld as technologically inept - seems, a bit implausible to me, I saw the man give several speeches/discussions, via company distributed video of company meetings, some of them were very technical in nature, at least technical by the standards of any CEO giving a speech to a subsidiary company, consisting primary of Engineers, Programmers and Computer Technicians and Computer Operators. If memory serves me correctly, the subject topics he lightly brushed on, were Optical Isolators for use in lightning protections of Tote Boards, thermal printer designed and Terminal Reader L.E.D. modifications. Mind you, his comments and sometimes his directions, were from the perspective of an CEO, not a CTO, but he was in touch with what most of our subsidiary technical personal, considered as the most pressing technical issues at that time.
As for Mr.Rumsfeld wanted to correct his Wikipedia page. Frankly, I not in the least bit surprised, for Donald, the correctness of facts, trumps Internet social etiquette. When he learned of the issues of accuracy with his Wikipedia page, he would have quickly came up to speed with the do’s and don’ts of Wikipedia administrator, and he would have know that “IP origins” sources computers are logged and article update from the White House or the Pentagon would bound to be notice. For Mr. Rumsfeld, even the better! Let them know, who set the record straight. As for his comments “wikki, wakka” attributing it to Fozzy Bear? Seems to me,like a bit of a stretch, in all likely hood, he was using a play on words, with the term Whick-Whack. Can’t say for sure. With Donald, some of his sayings are a bit cryptic, such as his interpretation of Thoreau’s Walden take on Confucius, better known now as his speech on “unknows and unknowns”, Donald had this cryptical attribute, even while he was the CEO at General Instruments.
And far as Donald looking at his media interviews on you-tube, maybe he wanted to check if he had really misspoken to the press, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V9MD15qs5s , or something along those lines. Who knows? My only explanation about Mr.Latimer book is this, if you were a junior level staff officer, had only been in the appointed job for less then two years and was not in the need to know circle about many of the administrations agendas, but wanted to sell a book about such events to a publishing house, what would you have to do? I’ll tell, you would have to trash your former employer and reveal backroom gossip and hear-say by some of the former administration staff.
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