of course she went up to my mom and said, isn't this great marianna? mom didn't think it was great, so when i arrived up to tell my mom, she had already known about it and i didn't see her sob much, but she was sobbing and very angry. angry and crying. she said to me, i started with nixon and now i was going to end up with bush and that i deserve everything i got. [laughter] and that i was jumping on a sinking ship. i will say this though, in the end, i say that by the time i finished in washington, my mother had a different opinion of george w. bush. but, it is not a good way to start off in wendy was not much happier with me. 's be one of the most interesting things i found in the book and i had not heard a word about this before, was your account of how some top russian officials had gone to some top chinese officials with the suggestion essentially that they start dumping their bombs up probably freddie and fannie at that time. that almost sounds like a bear raid. i thought that was the sort of thing that just the evil guys on wall street did you t