For eight years, Timothy Goeglein served as Special Assistant to President George W. Bush and Deputy Director of the White House Office of Public Liaison where he served as the middle man between the Oval Office and the Religious Right.
Goeglein served in this capacity until it was discovered that he had plagarized several columns he had been writing for an Indiana newspaper over the years and he subsequently resigned, eventually landing a new job as the main lobbyist for Focus on the Family.
Since leaving the White House, Goeglein has not been shy about proclaiming his undying admiration for his former boss, calling President Bush the “most pro-life and pro-family president in the history of the United States” and a “great thinker” who was “the instrument in God’s hand” that kept America safe and who will one day be recognized by historians as one of the nation’s greatest leaders.
Goeglein has now written a book about his time with Bush entitled “The Man in the Middle: An Inside Account of Faith and Politics in the George W. Bush Era” and this week is a guest on Liberty Counsel’s “Faith and Freedom” radio program where he is promoting.
And judging by today’s episode, Goeglein’s love of President Bush has in no way abated, as he declared that Bush was one of those men who possessed an Aristotelian “a greatness of soul”:
