"Well, I don't need to meet with him." Junior's work ethic/intellectual curiosity in nutshell.
Document 7
Office of the Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld snowflake to [redacted], Subject: Meetings with President, October 21, 2002, 5:50 p.m., not classified, 1 p., (Who is General McNeill?)
Oct 21, 2002
Source
Digital National Security Archive, obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
By the fall of 2002, the White House focus centered on the buildup to invading Iraq, to the point that President Bush didnt even know who his latest commander was in Kabul. This Rumsfeld snowflake, likely to a secretary whose name is redacted on privacy grounds (b6), recounts seeing Bush in the Oval Office on October 21, 2002, asking if he wanted to meet with General Franks (head of Central Command) and General McNeill, and noticing that Bush was quite puzzled. He said, Who is General McNeill? I said he is the general in charge of Afghanistan. He said, Well, I dont need to meet with him.
https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/afghanistan/2021-08-19/afghanistan-2020-20-year-war-20-documents