Not Your Sweetie

Yesterday NYT - good to know he made some phone calls!


Bush Doesn't Let Blackout Upset Lunch With Troops
By ELISABETH BUMILLER

AN DIEGO, Aug. 14 — President Bush was having lunch with troops at the Miramar Marine Corps
Air Station when Joe Hagin, his deputy chief of staff, told him of the massive blackout on the
East Coast.

But unlike the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, when news of another New York catastrophe sent Mr.
Bush on an odyssey on Air Force One, today he continued his lunch and went ahead with plans to
attend a $1 million political fund-raiser here this evening. Still, he spent the rest of the afternoon
on the phone trying to sort out the damage and the cause of the power failure with his top
national security aides.