San Francisco Chronicle

02/21/05

President Bush was concerned 'his mistakes as a youth' would disqualify him from running for the nation's highest office, said an old friend who secretly recorded private conversations in which Bush appears to acknowledge past drug use. 'I don't want any kid doing what I tried to do 30 years ago,' Bush said in recordings made when he was governor of Texas and aired Monday on ABC's 'Good Morning America.' 'And I mean that. It doesn't matter if it's LSD, cocaine, pot, any of those things, because if I answer one, then there will be another one. And I just am not going to answer those questions. And it may cost me the election.' The recordings were made by Doug Wead, a former aide to George W. Bush's father, in the two years before the younger Bush became the Republican nominee for president in 2000...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp