Former President George W. Bush signs books.(Photo: Jonathan Quilter, AP)
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One thing George W. Bush has never liked: Being psychoanalyzed.
Bush's disdain for being "put on the couch" surfaced in a CNN interview aired Sunday, as he responded to a book review that suggested his best-selling work on President George H.W. Bush is a way of coming to terms with his accomplished father.
"I think it's a typical psychobabble of somebody who has no clue what he's talking about,"
Bush told CNN's State of the Union.
Bush reacted after host Candy Crowley read a section from a favorable review of Bush's book,
41: A Portrait of My Father.
The reviewer said of the younger Bush: "He does not reflect on his lifetime of effort to prove himself by following in his father's footsteps, nor does he dwell on any frustrations in trying to measure up. With the former president fading into winter, the younger Bush's book feels like a release of sorts, finally getting rid of whatever baggage has been there for so long. A sunset at the hospital bed at last coming to terms."
In the CNN interview, George W. Bush disputed the very notion of family rivalry.
"Stiff competition is overstated," he said. "In other words if you love somebody as much as I love my dad -- and my brothers loved my dad, my sister -- there's no need to compete. And so people are going to write what they want to write."
Bush, the 43rd president, said he wrote about his father in order to introduce him to the country "in a way no one's ever known him," and because the 41st president is a man of accomplishment and of character.
"I understand how history works," Bush added. "It takes a long time for people to get to know him, get to know somebody and then analyze their decisions. But I wanted to be one of the first people out in the evaluation of George H.W. Bush."
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