More on O'Neill Magical Mystery Tour

Paul O'Neill's head must be spinning: O'Neill Defends Document Disclosure:

O'Neill emphasized that "The Price of Loyalty" is "Ron Suskind's book. . . . This is not my book. I have no economic interest in it, contrary to the inference in the Wall Street Journal [editorial] this morning. I hope people will read it because I think it makes a contribution to illuminating, especially for young people, what I consider to be a bipartisan, broken political process."

And also of interest:

Rumsfeld said: "Someone told me he was going to write a book and . . . that it was not going to be a good book. I picked up the phone and called him. I said someone tells me you're going to write one of those . . . insider things."

O'Neill, Rumsfeld said, told him the book was going to be about substance, about economic policy.

"I said, 'I'm relieved,'" Rumsfeld told reporters at the Pentagon.

Rumsfeld said he also called O'Neill just before the book came out, having heard that it was about to be published. "I said, 'you didn't go and do that, Paul? I can't believe that.'"

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"I have not read the book," Rumsfeld said. But its portrayal of the president, as described in news reports about the book, "is so different than my experiences. It's like night and day."

Not that I would expect Rummy to defend the book.