Actually they were the same as his Clinton visits. Greenspan wrote a book attacking Bush yet he said this:
He praises President Bush for letting the Fed stay independent of political pressure, saying he was scrupulous in not trying to interfere with monetary policy â which he contrasts sharply with the pressure exerted by his father, George H. W. Bush, in the early 1990s. For years, the first President Bush has blamed Mr. Greenspan for contributing to his defeat in 1992 by failing to prevent a recession by cutting interest rates. > Mr. Greenspan's visits to the White House tripled from just 12 in > 2000 > to 37 in 2001, when Bush took office. Starting in January 2001, the > same month Mr. Greenspan began cutting rates and flip-flopped on the > Bush tax cuts, he visited the White House at least three times per > month, with the only slowdown in June and July of that year. > > What were previously monthly meetings continued to skyrocket to over > one per week in both 2002 (55 meetings) and 2003 (68 meetings). > > These White House meetings since 2001 were with officials at the > highest level, something Mr. Greenspan did not do in 2000 or > apparently since 1996 based on his monthly meetings there. For > example, in 2003 he met with the President once, Vice President > Cheney > seven times, Condoleezza Rice six times, and Chief of Staff Andy Card > three times. In March 2003 he had 14 White House meetings, and in > July > 2003 he met with six members of the Cabinet, including Colin Powell. > > Such increasingly frequent meetings at the most senior level, > including the Oval Office, are appropriate for a politician but not a > central banker, whose political independence is paramount. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:266963 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
