{"id":3018,"date":"2007-01-09T10:41:42","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T14:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2007\/01\/09\/from-the-white-house-to-the-big-house\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T10:41:42","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T14:41:42","slug":"from-the-white-house-to-the-big-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2007\/01\/09\/from-the-white-house-to-the-big-house\/","title":{"rendered":"From the White House to the Big House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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"The President does not know him. Nor does the President recall ever meeting him." – White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan – January 2006.<\/p>\n

"I frankly don’t even remember having my picture taken with the guy. I don’t know him."
\n – George W. Bush on ABC News – January 2006<\/p>\n

Abramoff: “[Bush] has one of the best memories of any politician I have ever met. … The guy saw me in almost a dozen settings, and joked with me about a bunch of things, including details of my kids. Perhaps he has forgotten everything. Who knows.”<\/p>\n

The photo is from a fundraiser in December 2003 and was recently dug up by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington<\/a> (CREW). Here’s hoping these two rascals get a reunion and plenty of time to reminisce in the Big House….. <\/em>\n <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

"The President does not know him. Nor does the President recall ever meeting him." – White House Press Secretary Scott McClellan – January 2006. "I frankly don’t even remember having my picture taken with the guy. I don’t know him." … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}