"I’ve got God’s shoulder to cry on, and I cry a lot,” President Bush admits. “I’ll bet I’ve shed more tears than you can count as president.”
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Looking to the day he leaves the White House, President Bush says he'll concentrate on making speeches and running an institute that promotes democracy around the world. He also admitted that he cries "a lot" on God's shoulder.
Bush made the revelations to Robert Draper, for his book “Dead Certain,” which will be released on Tuesday.
“Self-pity is the worst thing that can happen to a presidency. This is a job where you can have a lot of self-pity.”
According to the Times, Bush agreed to speak candidly with Draper after six years of lobbying. Draper told Bush that he'd write about him as “a consequential president” for history, not for the latest news cycle. He told Bush that his book could provide “the raw material” for others after him.
President George H.W. Bush in 1982 was an honorary pallbearer at the funeral of Draper’s grandfather, Leon Jaworski, a special prosecutor in the Watergate scandal.
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