BALTIMORE — President Bush is talking more openly about his old drinking habit, and on Tuesday he offered perhaps his most pointed assessment yet by saying that the term “addiction” had applied to him.
“Addiction is hard to overcome. As you might remember, I drank too much at one time in my life,” Bush said during a visit to the Jericho Program, a project of Episcopal Community Services of Maryland that helps former prisoners deal with problems such as drug addiction, finding jobs and reintegrating productively into society. In meeting with two men who have graduated from Jericho’s programs, Bush spoke frankly about himself.
“I understand addiction, and I understand how a changed heart can help you deal with addiction,” he told Tom Boyd and Adolphus Mosely (left and right, respectively, in photo above). “There’s some kind of commonality.”
The Associated Press
