"The more I learned, the more questions I had." Whatever you think of his policy, the process was impeccable. "The conversations fascinated me," he writes. To reach that decision, Bush conducted a White House seminar that included talks with advocates, brilliant ones, on all sides of the issue. And that principle is very much in evidence when he makes the first major decision of his presidency, in favor of federal funding for research on existing stem-cell lines but not for raiding frozen embryos potential lives, he believes to harvest their cells. "If you haven't doubted, you probably haven't thought very hard about what you believe," he writes. There was a growing comfort with the calming release of prayer, a gradual appreciation of the moral truths contained in the Bible. Bush writes with great credibility, and a welcome absence of histrionics, about his slow-motion turn toward faith. On in his newly released memoir, George W.
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