For the first time, George W. Bush has opened up about the years he spent as a lush.
In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, Bush describes years of heavy drinking that caused embarrassing moments and even strained his relationship with his family.
It became a love and, therefore, began to compete for my love with my wife and my daughters, he said, according to People.com.
I wasn't a knee-walkin' drunk, Bush said in his interview with Lauer. I could easily have a beer or two, or a martini, before dinner, bourbons, B&Bs. I was a drinker.
In an interview promoting his memoir, Decision Points, the 43rd president said he got caught driving drunk on Labor Day weekend in 1976 after a night of drinking no hands at a bar -- meaning he picked up and tossed back a drink using only his mouth.
Bush didn't discuss the DUI until days before the 2000 election, when it became a scandal. Trying to keep the story under wraps for so long is a choice that Bush considers one of the top stupidest decisions I made.
Was really a bad choice. And if I had to do it -- look, you don't get to do it over again. But if I had to do it over again, of course I would have disclosed. I mean there was nothing to hide. I -- yeah, I drank too much. I had been pulled over. And I quit. It was a good story with a good ending, poorly timed.
In the interview, which will air at 8 p.m. EST Monday on Matt Lauer Reports, Bush also describes a humiliating drunken gaffe in which he asked a beautiful woman about her sex life.
Full story with video: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/george-w-bush-on-alcohol-it-became-a-love/19703477
In an interview with NBC's Matt Lauer, Bush describes years of heavy drinking that caused embarrassing moments and even strained his relationship with his family.
It became a love and, therefore, began to compete for my love with my wife and my daughters, he said, according to People.com.
I wasn't a knee-walkin' drunk, Bush said in his interview with Lauer. I could easily have a beer or two, or a martini, before dinner, bourbons, B&Bs. I was a drinker.
In an interview promoting his memoir, Decision Points, the 43rd president said he got caught driving drunk on Labor Day weekend in 1976 after a night of drinking no hands at a bar -- meaning he picked up and tossed back a drink using only his mouth.
Bush didn't discuss the DUI until days before the 2000 election, when it became a scandal. Trying to keep the story under wraps for so long is a choice that Bush considers one of the top stupidest decisions I made.
Was really a bad choice. And if I had to do it -- look, you don't get to do it over again. But if I had to do it over again, of course I would have disclosed. I mean there was nothing to hide. I -- yeah, I drank too much. I had been pulled over. And I quit. It was a good story with a good ending, poorly timed.
In the interview, which will air at 8 p.m. EST Monday on Matt Lauer Reports, Bush also describes a humiliating drunken gaffe in which he asked a beautiful woman about her sex life.
Full story with video: http://www.aolnews.com/weird-news/article/george-w-bush-on-alcohol-it-became-a-love/19703477
