Reply #45: Bush's last e-mail (no kidding)

[Lisa]

""My lawyers tell me that all correspondence by e-mail is subject to open record requests," Mr. Bush wrote to the group, which included top aides and business people. "Since I do not want my private conversations looked at by those out to embarrass, the only course of action is not to correspond in cyberspace. This saddens me. I have enjoyed conversing with each of you."

Until that moment, when Mr. Bush wrote that "sadly I sign off," he kept in contact with these people through often daily e-mail messages, which he would usually dash off early in the morning before embarking on the campaign trail. (The missives were generally to the point — a sentence or so. Mr. Bush preferred all lower-case letters and little punctuation except dashes between thoughts, and would usually sign off, simply, "gwb.")"



http://www.nytimes.com/2001/03/17/politics/17FRIE.html?ex=1113364800&en=8fa1621c872fe190&ei=5070

I bet they were relieved when he went offline -- my guess is that he'd be the type to spam everybody with whiny self-righteous rants.