Mickey Herskowitz

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1999 Herskowitz once said of his former employer: "He thought of himself as a superior, more modern politician than his father and [the elder Bush's close adviser and friend] Jim Baker. He told me, "[My father] could have done anything [during the...
1999 In the late 1990s, Mickey Herskowitz while writing a book together with George W Bush said that the only thing he could think that he would want to do if he became president would be to start a war with Iraq.
Herskowitz held many meetings with the then-Texas Governor George W. Bush in preparation for an upcoming project, and soon struck a deal with Bush in 1999 about a ghost-written autobiography, a book which was eventually titled A Charge to Keep.
Herskowitz was given unprecedented access to Bush and met him around 20 times to discuss the project.
Herskowitz was replaced after Bush's handlers decided that the candidate's views and life experiences were not being cast in a sufficiently positive light.