Just because former President George W. Bush dumped former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld in 2006 doesn’t mean that he isn’t keeping up with the Washington warrior.
Case in point: At an event earlier this month in Miami, a former top administration official ran into the last Republican president. The official took note of Bush’s interest in painting, book writing and focus on his presidential center and library in Dallas.
He then told the former president what Rumsfeld was up to, including development of a new card game app called Churchill Solitaire, designed after a “diabolical version” of the game played by former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the London bombings of World War II.
Bush smiled, reached into his pocket and pulled out his iPhone. “I’ve got it right here,” he said of the game. “I’ve been playing it.”
Some of the proceeds from app, produced by Rumsfeld, Churchill Heritage Ltd, and the digital agency Javelin, are going to charities that support wounded veterans and their familes.
Paul Bedard, the Washington Examiner’s “Washington Secrets” columnist, can be contacted at [email protected]
