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Copyright 2011 by Timothy S. Goeglein

All Rights Reserved.

Printed in the United States of America.

978-1-4336-7392-4

Published by B&H Publishing Group

Nashville, Tennessee

Dewey Decimal Classification: 261.7

Subject Heading: BUSH, GEORGE W. \ PRESIDENTSUNITED STATES \ CHRISTIANITY AND POLITICS

Published in association with the literary agency of Wolgemuth & Associates, Inc.

Unless otherwise noted, Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version, copyright 1973, 1978, 1986 by International Bible Society.

At time of printing, all Web sites were checked for accuracy.

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This book is dedicated to the six loves of my life:

My wife, Jenny; our sons Tim and Paul; my parents, Stanley and Shirley Goeglein; and my mother-in-law Beverly Carson. Theirs has been a sacrificial love, none more than Jenny, my soul mate. They have taught me that the best life is the one enveloped in unconditional love, given and received.

Soli Deo Gloria!

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win great triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

Theodore Roosevelt

For you, Lord , have delivered me from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, that I may walk before the Lord in the land of the living.... What shall I return to the Lord for all his goodness to me?

Psalm 116:89, 12 (niv)

Orthodoxy is my doxyheterodoxy is another mans doxy.

Bishop Williman Warburton

Foreword

A t any given time, a handful of peopleseveral hundred out of more than 311 million Americans todayare called by a president to serve on his White House staff. For seven eventful years Timothy Stanley Goeglein was one of those select few working at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. This book is his story of his time on the White House staff in years of controversy, conflict, and war.

This volume is an inside look at the policy battles and presidency of George W. Bush, told by a man who served as the White House liaison to the conservative community.

I know Tim Goeglein well. I recruited him for his post and worked with him closely during my nearly seven years at the White House. We became close colleagues and friends. I relied on the advice, insights, and advocacy of Tim and his colleague in the Office of Public Liaison, Matt Smith, who led the Bush Administrations outreach to our fellow conservatives. And so, up the chain of command, did the President of the United States.

Tims book is pugnacious, often dealing revisionist blows to mistaken conventional wisdom about President Bush, his decisions, methods, strengths, and intentions. Tim patiently marshals facts and evidence to set the record straight in a powerful defense of the Bush era.

This volume also gives the reader a view of what life inside the White House gates is really like. People who labor in the White House often find it hard to explain to friends or family what the pace and burdens are of working for a president. Tims glimpses inside the real West Wing are revealing.

You are there as Tim helps prepare for the National Cathedral prayer service days after 9-11, as the Senate takes up the presidents nominees for the Supreme Court, as a president attends the funeral of Pope John Paul II, and as a conservative administration takes on the tough challenges facing the country.

This is also a personal book offering Tims views on issues and events. No two people (especially two conservatives) always think alike. Nor do people present at a moment see it through the same frame. So it is interesting now to hearunvarnished and unfilteredmy colleagues reactions to events and issues at which we were both present.

Tim also writes of the toll of service inside the pressure cooker that is the White House. He describes the pressures, stresses, and strains that cause anyone who has been honored to work there to feel a kinship with others who do, regardless of party or philosophy. You get a real sense of the costs paid by those who abandon the comfortable patterns of their career and family life to answer a presidents call to service.

This volume is candid, and so it is necessarily an intimate story of error, forgiveness, and redemptionTims error, the forgiveness he received from his president and colleagues, and the redemption made possible by Tims faith and character. I suspect this part of the book was difficult for Tim to put on paper, but his doing so only increases my admiration for his honesty and recognition that we are all fallen creatures, capable of mistakes, and needing the help of a greater power.

For 222 years, the American president has played a pivotal rolefor good and sometimes for illin the life of our nation and, increasingly the globe. The post a president occupies is the most powerful in the world. The space in which he laborsthe Oval Office in the West Wing of the White Houseis the most important center of political power in the world.

It is a place so powerful that it overwhelms many. Vladimir Putin, for example, when visiting Washington for the first time, came into the Oval Office, took a long look around its splendor, and exclaimed, Oh, my God! If it can take away the breath of a former KGB agent raised in the atheistic Soviet Union, you can imagine what it can do to almost anyone.

For eight years, a good man occupied that office. George W. Bush made vital decisions on behalf of a people he loved, to protect their freedoms and way of life from enemies bent on our destruction. He had the courage to propose reforms of big institutions important to our people and our future. He stood for timeless conservative values that were engrained in his heart and soul, not drawn from a poll or focus group. And he made a differencean enduring and big difference for the good for our country.

It was Tim Goegleins honor to serve this man and our nation. This is the story of that service, a chronicle worth writing and one well worth reading

Karl Rove

Prologue

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Cicero

It takes struggles in life to make strength. It takes fight for principles to make fortitude. It takes crisis to give courage. And it takes singleness of purpose to reach an objective.

Margaret Thatcher

T his book is about the presidency of George W. Bush, seen from inside the White House, through my own perceptions of being there for seven years, and dating from the first day of the first Bush administration on January 21, 2001. I was one of the longest serving White House aides to the president, dating from my time on the first Bush campaign in Austin, which I joined Labor Day weekend of 2000.

I was a special assistant to the president and the deputy director of the White House Office of Public Liaison, one of the four political offices. Though mine was a long title, I had comparatively little influence. In Washington, the shorter your title, the more influence you have; the longer, less. I welcomed not being in the inner circle, as it were. By nature I am an outsiders insider or an insiders outsider. I relished my role as an insiders outsider because this is a position of utility and value for any White House; with this role comes unique responsibilities and none more so than the honest ability to reflect back into the White House what one is hearing from people of credibility, reflection, and intelligence.

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