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From Fran Townsend, George Bush’s assistant for homeland security and counterterrorism, when White House chief of staff Andy Card called during Hurricane Rita to ask her what she needed:
“I want to know if the president knows what a fucking asshole Don Rumsfeld is.”
Probably not. But plenty of other people did. Robert Draper’s full story is here.
