According to the book, The Price of Loyalty which is an account of the experience of Bush II's Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill, Laura Bush attended a gala event hosted by the then Saudi Arabian ambassador, Bandar bin Sultan to the US not so long after 9/11.
I was not surprised that Laura Bush attended the event, but I was surprised that O'Neill thought it important enough to include in his memoir.
Why did the story of her attendance at that event surprise me? Because I think that Laura Bush must have attended many, many gala events while First Lady. That she attended an event was not surprising.
So why did O'Neill include the fact that she attended that event in his book? Was it because it was memorable because of the mourning and her partying was inappropriate at that time? Maybe because so many of the hijackers were Saudis? Maybe because Bin Laden was a Saudi? Or was it because he wanted readers in the future to know that it happened or maybe because he knew something about the ambassador that may be interesting to the readers once the full story of 9/11 is known to us?
I have wondered about that since I read O'Neill's book. It's just a kind of a tiny bit of evidence that doesn't fit into any particular theory or story for me. But I wonder if in fact it will fit somewhere once there is more information known to us all.
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