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malaise

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Sat Jun 29, 2013, 09:04 PM Jun 2013

The two faced George HW Bush



http://petapixel.com/2012/08/19/gregory-heislers-controversial-photo-of-president-george-h-w-bush-for-time/
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The White House had no idea that President Bush was going to be portrayed in that way, and both TIME and Heisler had their White House press privileges temporarily revoked.


A few years later, in 1995, Bush’s press secretary Marlin Fitzwater gave an interview with Brian Lamb of C-SPAN in which he described how the photo shoot went down from the White House’s perspective:

Lamb: How’d they do it?
Fitzwater: They lied. They told me …
Lamb: I mean, how did they set it up so that when we — you talk in here about how something was strange about the photo session.
Fitzwater: Well, yes. They brought in a photographer from New York who was well-known for class photography and fashion photography and so forth, but not a news photographer.
Lamb: Do you remember the name?
Fitzwater: I don’t — it’s in the book, but I — frankly, I don’t remember it at the moment. And …
Lamb: It’s Gregory Heisler.
Fitzwater: Gregory Heisler — yes. And he had these shots all set up in the morning, and he had marked on the floors diagrams of exactly where the camera was going to be, exactly where he wanted the President, exactly what angle his face would be and his shoulders and so forth. And I looked at it, and I thought, “Well, that just means the guy is well-prepared and that he’s a pro, and he knows what he’s doing, and he’s really got this planned out down to the last i’ and t’,” but then, when I saw the pictures being taken, I began to be suspicious because they wanted a profile of the President in one area, and then they asked him to turn and his face had to be just at the exact same height as it was in the other profile. And I began to suspect then that something was wrong.
Lamb: You quoted yourself as saying, “`Those bastards!’ I screamed. They lied to me. This whole thing was a setup. Those dirty, rotten bastards.’”
Fitzwater: That’s a fair and accurate …
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Down memory lane is good - two-faced indeed
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The two faced George HW Bush (Original Post) malaise Jun 2013 OP
Hell GHWB is just a fucking liar. Two faced is a compliment. Lint Head Jun 2013 #1
We both know that malaise Jun 2013 #2
Thanks, will be using this image A LOT!1 Let's see if a re-size (smaller) works: UTUSN Jun 2013 #3
Fabulous malaise Jul 2013 #4
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