In December 2000, when the Bush team was preparing to move into the White House, Newsweek ran the following about incoming White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card:

            “And he can be as hard as Texas dirt.  As a close friend tells it, Card was managing a McDonald’s during his college years at the University of South Carolina when he realized someone was stealing money.  None of his employees would admit to the crime.  He fired them all.”  (December 11, 2000)

Card is not from Texas; he is from Massachusetts, where he facilitated the ...   more »