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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe 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, Bushs 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 Houses perspective:
Lamb: Howd 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 dont its in the book, but I frankly, I dont remember it at the moment. And
Lamb: Its 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 hes a pro, and he knows what hes doing, and hes 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: Thats 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
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Lint Head
(15,064 posts)1. Hell GHWB is just a fucking liar. Two faced is a compliment.
malaise
(269,004 posts)2. We both know that
UTUSN
(70,695 posts)3. Thanks, will be using this image A LOT!1 Let's see if a re-size (smaller) works:
Thanks UTUSN