Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush once knocked President Bill Clinton as being too 'preoccupied with other matters' to confront Cuba, an email from Bush's time in office that was released today reveals. In the January 1999 email, obtained and published by the Washington Post along with other correspondence from Bush's eight years in office, Florida's newly elected chief executive took a shot at embattled Clinton over his affair with White House intern Monica Lewinsky and suggested that the next president should be more bold with the communist country. 'Forceful diplomacy can make a difference and we have had none for the last seven years and the current President is preoccupied with other matters,' Bush said in an email to then-Rep. Lincoln Diaz-Balart of Florida.
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'Forceful diplomacy can make a difference and we have had none for the last seven years,' Bush said of then-President Bill Clinton
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Correspondence from Bush's eight years in office as Florida's governor released today shows a hard-working executive
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He personally responded to online correspondence directed to him but was wary of leaving behind a permanent trail of unflattering communications
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Bush was already planning to publish the correspondence himself as a show of transparency as he prepares to run for president
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