NY TIMESの要約を読んでみよう! Vol.171 / Global-C
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題名: In Ex-Spokesman's Book, Harsh Words for Bush
記者: By ELISABETH BUMILLER
発行日: May 28, 2008
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/washington/28mcclellan.html
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【Passage/本文】
Scott McClellan, former White House press secretary,
wrote a critical new memoir called "What Happened:
Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture
of Deception.”
It is the first negative account by a member of the
tight circle of Texans around Mr. Bush.
Mr. McClellan went to work for Mr. Bush when he was
governor of Texas and was the White House press
secretary from July 2003 to April 2006.
In the book he says that President Bush's decision
to invade Iraq was a "serious strategic blunder," and
yet, in his view, it was not the biggest mistake the
Bush White House made.
That, he says, was "a decision to turn away from
candor and honesty when those qualities were most
needed."
Mr. McClellan also writes that top White House
officials deceived him about the administration's
involvement in leaking the secret identity of a
C.I.A. operative, Valerie Wilson.
He says he unwittingly lied for almost two years in
his statements from the press room that members of
the administration were not involved in the leak,
when indeed they were.
He is harsh about the administration's response to
Hurricane Katrina, saying it "spent most of the first
week in a state of denial" and "allowed our
institutional response to go on autopilot."
He is also critical of Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice and what he calls her deftness at protecting her
reputation.
"No matter what went wrong, she was somehow able to
keep her hands clean and come out looking like a
star." Mr. McClellan writes.
He calls the news media "complicit enablers" in the
White House's "carefully orchestrated campaign to
shape and manipulate sources of public approval" in
the march to the Iraq war.
Mr. McClellan does not exempt himself from failings --
"I fell far short of living up to the kind of public
servant I wanted to be."
今日のトピックは如何でしたか？
アメリカの大統領選挙で、民主党候補も決着がついたよう
ですね。
今後は民主党と共和党の戦いとなるわけですが、次期大統領
は民主党のような予感がします。
■■■ NY Timesの記事 ■■■
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
題名: In Ex-Spokesman's Book, Harsh Words for Bush
記者: By ELISABETH BUMILLER
発行日: May 28, 2008
URL: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/28/washington/28mcclellan.html
━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━
【Passage/本文】
Scott McClellan, former White House press secretary,
wrote a critical new memoir called "What Happened:
Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture
of Deception.”
It is the first negative account by a member of the
tight circle of Texans around Mr. Bush.
Mr. McClellan went to work for Mr. Bush when he was
governor of Texas and was the White House press
secretary from July 2003 to April 2006.
In the book he says that President Bush's decision
to invade Iraq was a "serious strategic blunder," and
yet, in his view, it was not the biggest mistake the
Bush White House made.
That, he says, was "a decision to turn away from
candor and honesty when those qualities were most
needed."
Mr. McClellan also writes that top White House
officials deceived him about the administration's
involvement in leaking the secret identity of a
C.I.A. operative, Valerie Wilson.
He says he unwittingly lied for almost two years in
his statements from the press room that members of
the administration were not involved in the leak,
when indeed they were.
He is harsh about the administration's response to
Hurricane Katrina, saying it "spent most of the first
week in a state of denial" and "allowed our
institutional response to go on autopilot."
He is also critical of Secretary of State Condoleezza
Rice and what he calls her deftness at protecting her
reputation.
"No matter what went wrong, she was somehow able to
keep her hands clean and come out looking like a
star." Mr. McClellan writes.
He calls the news media "complicit enablers" in the
White House's "carefully orchestrated campaign to
shape and manipulate sources of public approval" in
the march to the Iraq war.
Mr. McClellan does not exempt himself from failings --
"I fell far short of living up to the kind of public
servant I wanted to be."
今日のトピックは如何でしたか？
アメリカの大統領選挙で、民主党候補も決着がついたよう
ですね。
今後は民主党と共和党の戦いとなるわけですが、次期大統領
は民主党のような予感がします。
