John:

I'm sorry -- I didn't mean to act outraged by the fact of her withdrawal which I think a Good Thing. It was the surface PR management and her letter which annoyed me.

Too much controversy for Bush to handle, resulting in his asking her to do him a Big Favor and back out?

Or, as she said in her letter, a compelling need to defend Executive Privelege not to reveal the inner traffic of the Oval office (for reasons unknown but certainly interesting)?

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