O’Neill was also quoted in the book as saying that the administration’s decision-making process was so flawed that often top officials had no real sense of what the president wanted them to do, forcing them to act on “little more than hunches about what the president might think.”

O’Neill said in his CBS interview that the atmosphere was similar during the one-on-one meetings he held with Bush.

Speaking of his first meeting with the president, O’Neill said, “I went in with a long list of things to talk about and, I thought, to engage (Bush) on. … I was surprised it turned out me talking and the president just listening. It was mostly a monologue.”