WH Aide's Life in Crawford Double-Wide Trailer

"A Trusted Aide Relishes Trailer-Park Life in Texas," Elisabeth Bumiller, NYT, 12/01/03:


"I (WH deputy chief of staff Joe Hagin, the 'point-man' for the Thanksgiving Baghdad trip) enjoy it down here," he said Saturday in an interview in the living room of his double-wide, which sits in a little White House trailer park across from the entrance to Mr. Bush's 1,600-acre ranch. The president's helicopter pilots live in the trailer next door, and nearby are the Secret Service command post trailer, the White House communications trailer and the conference trailer, where Mr. Bush goes every morning for his intelligence briefings that come in by secure video from Washington....


Normally, Mr. Hagin lives a kind of upscale fraternity-house existence in Crawford with his roommates, Blake Gottesman, the president's personal aide, and Brett Kavanaugh, the White House staff secretary in charge of paper flow to and from the Oval Office. Sometimes Stephen J. Hadley, the deputy national security adviser, joins the group in the five-bedroom trailer, decorated not so badly in Pottery Barn furniture and lush photographs of the president cutting cedar and catching bass....


Condoleezza Rice, the national security adviser, stays on the ranch proper, in what is called "the governor's house," the original ranch house that Mr. Bush used while he was the governor of Texas, before he moved to a new house that was completed when he became president....


"(Chain-sawing brush and cedar hours after returning from Baghdad) was great for clearing your head," said Mr. Hagin, who had bloody scratches on his forearms, not from any trouble in Baghdad, but from his encounters on a dry stretch of prairie with the president's brush.


http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/01/politics/01LETT.html

All of them. *spit*!

Those rooms must be the size of postage stamps:)

Do they cultivate the stuff? Is it some sort cash crop or what?

a triple wide while the Governor's Mansion was being renovated, everyone laughed and taunted and made fun of AR even on National TV. So let's laugh and taunt and - oh well

Oh. My. God. I SO did not need to know about this.

It's not enough that news broadcasts show the tumble-down sheds and rusting disabled tractors of the Crawford "ranch" movie set for all the world to see and laugh at.

Now we learn that the affairs of the world's only super power are being run from a fake "trailer park" in Texas. All so the fake president can boost his image as a good-ole regular boy. This is an affront to trailer-dwellers everywhere.

:puke:

....photos of Bush fishing and brush clearing???????????????????????????????????????????????????

What kind of totalitarian crap is that???

I wonder if they have any of those halo photos in the house Condi stays in?

What do they do? Gaze longingly at the photos as they brush their teeth or shave? These people are a bunch of freaks! How much is this nonsense costing us anyway? Can you imagine if it was Clinton? Trailer trash indeed! Isn't that what the Washington elites thought?

Just think how many people in this country call a double-wide their home and rightly are proud of it. Trailer trash indeed. Living in a single-wide is preferable for many people than living in tenements.

and the trailer is decorated with "lush" pictures of their boss. Pilots and Secret Service professionals live there, too, far away from home, so Bush can cut his brush on our dime. They cut brush with the boss, presumably whether they like it or not. People who call a hard-earned single-wide home should be much prouder of themselves than these aides who live like serfs so the boss, as someone else observed, can appear a good-ole-boy man of the people.

And it's fake, as someone else observed. Condi stays at "the governor's house"? What is this, Colonial Williamsburg?

And, again, as someone else observes, somehow, it's just weird.

:)