We've had a good week. We feel like the president heads out of the country on a strong note.

President Bush and Mrs. Bush are saddened by the news. It's a tremendous loss for our nation.

The president encountered and witnessed traffic for the first time in three years on the way to the airport.

There were shortcomings. There were breakdowns in communication, things that we shouldn't be tolerating in our country in a post-9/11 world, and President Bush takes responsibility and accountability for that.

President Bush will show that the math speaks for itself. The bottom line is that the Social Security system, in 13 years, will be taking in less money than it's paying out. We'll go into the red.

Despite all of these grievances -- despite all of these fundamental concerns about the actions our country has taken -- it's only now, in the course of this campaign, that Dick Clarke decides to talk in the form of this book.