DALLAS (AP) – Former President George W. Bush has spoken publicly with the author of his father’s biography in a discussion that touched on former President George Herbert Walker Bush’s early career as a Navy pilot, his disappointing loss to Bill Clinton in the 1992 presidential election and his reflections on his son’s tenure in the White House.
The forum Sunday in Dallas came two days before Jon Meacham’s “Destiny and Power” is released amid Jeb Bush’s campaign for the presidency.
The biography is the fullest account yet of the elder Bush, the only modern ex-president not to write a full-length memoir.
It draws on Bush’s diaries as well as interviews the author conducted from 2006-2015.
Meacham said Bush “is a man who turned on the tape recorder and told the truth.”