He did every day in my chief of staff. Mr. President , thank you for the privilege of serving . Did you say that . I did. Sometimes there was a variation of it. But i did as chief of staff, i visited with the president first thing every morning. He got to his desk at about 6 45. And i would get five minutes to get settled. Our tradition was the first person the president sees was the chief of staff. I would walk in at about 6 50 in the morning. I always said something to the effect of, thank you for the privilege of serving. And it wasnt intended to flatter him or to thank him, it was intended to remind me and to help me remind everybody else what a privilege it was to be inside the white house. So i just made it a habit. It was a privilege. What did he say back . He would just move on. He was a president i think really understood the presidency, understood the privilege of being in the oval office. He didnt need the reminding. He probably didnt even need the reminding that i was appre
Myself. When you think back about the last three years, whats the first thing that comes to your mind. The last three years of the Bush Administration. When you were chief of staff. Whats the thing that flashes in front of you . Boy, a lot of things flash in front of me. Theres a trauma and a recency effect to the financial crisis. That was the last thing that happened on the way out the door. For the Bush Administration. You remember we went through 7 1 2 very difficult tumultuous years, hugely consequential, dramatic changes in the world and in the united states. You know, wed had a recession. We had a crisis of confidence in american business. We had the 9 11 attacks, the war in afghanistan, the war in iraq, hurricane katrina. All of these things. So when we approached the last year of the Bush Administration, as we got to 7 1 2 years in, most of us thought lets try to wrap this up in a responsible and effective way and for whoever wins the presidency, leave the country and the whit
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