The interview, scheduled for broadcast late Sunday, came after O'Neill served as the main source for an upcoming book, "The Price of Loyalty," which paints an insider's view of the Bush administration. O'Neill is thinking: the words 'lying sack' come to mind
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill(R) likened President George W. Bush (news - web sites) at Cabinet meetings to 'a blind man in a room full of deaf people,' according to excerpts from a CBS interview released on January 9, 2004. O'Neill, who was fired by Bush in December 2002, also said the
president did not ask him a single question during their first one-on-one meeting, which lasted an hour. 'As I recall it was just a monologue,' he told CBS' '60 Minutes,' which will broadcast the entire interview on Sunday. In making the blind man analogy, O'Neill told CBS his ex-boss did not encourage a free flow of ideas or open debate. Bush and O'Neill are seen at the White House in this July 17, 2001 file photo. (Larry Downing/Reuters)