I Want My Blankee!!!

President furious about summit preparations

November 13, 2005

BY ROBERT NOVAK SUN-TIMES COLUMNIST


President Bush was furious with the staff preparation for last week's inter-American summit in Argentina, where his trade proposals ran into unexpected opposition.

The president was reported as particularly unhappy with the work by his National Security Council staff in getting ready for the meeting. That added to Bush's distress in Buenos Aires, dealing with violent street demonstrators and hostile fellow presidents led by Venezuela's Hugo Chavez and including Argentina's Nestor Kirchner.

The crowning indignity for Bush was the Friday night state dinner starting at 10 p.m., an hour when the president normally is in bed. He left the dinner early, but it was midnight by then.