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Speech draft and i just wanted to meet you. my first time in the oval and, you know, your mouth just goes immediately dry. you're trying to look around and look at him at the same time. and i just remember barely nothing. part of the thing about the office is it becomes a storage unit. photos from all eight years, ten years including the campaign. i've just saved all my credentials. world series, g20s, trips to cuba. tons of stuff. trip books. tickets to state dinners. some of the air force one cards. i don't know how i'm going to clear out this office over the next couple of months. >> this i...

So would a speech draft on the iraq war. so would a speech -- those things would have crossed my desk. prepared by others. they crossed my desk on the way to the president. >> in the 2006 hearing you told arlen specter, you gave president bush advice on signing statements including identifying potential constitutional issues in legislation. did you make any comments regarding the december 30th, 2005, signing statement on mccain torture amendment, including potential constitutional issues? >> i can't recall what i said. i do recall that there was a good deal of internal debate about that signin...

We are currently on the west wing ground floor, down in the basement level, the oval office is up there. president's private study. right above us is his private dining room. one of the thing as but being in the basement, there are no windows. i had pew put stuff up to make it at least feel like home year, like you have a window. the president is about 2 inches taller than i am. he still fits. the president will call me up if he wants to go through a speech. he made edits. it doesn't happen every day. if we are purking on the state of the union address, something look that. it may happen ten t...

>> we are currently on the ground floor. right above us is his private diming room. one of the things about being in the basement is there are no windows. i had to put stuff everywhere to make it feel a little bit like you have a window. >> the president is about two inches taller than i am. he fits. he wants to go through a speech and he made edits. it doesn't happen every day. if we are working on the state of the union address, it might en two times in a day. when i first met the president, i was a junior guy on the tote em pole. i raced over and he just said i saw your name on the top of t...

Resolve in the face of aggression. that is not what happened tonight. >> and he talks about how he spent the whole day writing that speech draft after draft sitting next to the white house pool because he wanted to get it just right. he thought he'd go for a swim and burn off steam and decided i can't do it. i've got to keep writing this speech and make it just right. i want to ask you this because the president -- president obama in his defense may be trying to telegraph, you know, keep calm. terrorism only works if it terrorizes you. like i'm going to go about and do my thing, you go about a...