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More than 100 Americans
died in April, including Sgt.
Alex Funcheon from Wichita,
whom Roberts had heard
about after the Army’s casualty
assistance officer, Sgt. Charles
Austin Hilt, contacted his staff.
Bush’s Republican allies were
deserting him.
I want to pick your brain on
several things, but I’m not feel-
ing too good here; I’ve got a
cold, Bush told Roberts. I’m
going to take a nap and then
talk with you if that’s OK.
“No problem, Mr. President,”
Roberts replied.
Roberts took a seat, and for a
few minutes, as the big blue-
and-white plane flew over
mountains and prairies, he
reviewed what he wanted to
mention to Bush.
Roberts had agonized over
war long before Bush ordered
the Iraq invasion in 2003, long
before terrorists flew planes
into New York, Pennsylvania
and Washington, D.C.
For many years Roberts had
served as chairman of the
Senate Intelligence
Committee. The nation’s intel-
ligence people had briefed
him repeatedly. The briefings,
and the apathy he encoun-
tered when he tried to warn
other people, weighed him
down with worry.
He’d spent years “almost
jumping up and down,” as he
put it later, trying to get
President Clinton’s people,
and then Bush’s people, to
realize something big and
terrible was brewing overseas,
probably a direct attack on the
U.S. In Kansas, especially after
the USS Cole warship was
attacked by suicide bombers in
2000, Roberts included in
every speech in every town a
warning that something big
loomed and that the U.S. was
not preparing adequately.
Then one morning Roberts
drove to work at the Capitol
watching smoke rise from the
Pentagon; when he reached
the Capitol, he was hustled to
a safe place and learned, from
President Bush arrives at McConnell Air Force Base with Sen.
Pat Roberts, R-Kan., who arranged a meeting between Bush
and the family of Alex Funcheon.
turned into a dreary routine of
roadside bombings and casu-
alty reports.
The president reappeared.
Can’t sleep, Bush said. We
might as well talk.
They walked up front, sat
down in Bush’s Air Force One
office — a small, well-lit space
with a desk, an extra chair and
a couch, room enough for a
half-dozen or more people.
Bush called out the door to a
steward: Could you make me
a peanut butter and jelly?
Then, they talked about war
and government.
OK, Bush said, after a pause.
Is there anything else you
want to bring up?
“Yes,” Roberts said. “There’s
SERIES
Events described in these
stories were drawn from
interviews conducted over an
18-month period with the
story subjects or from docu-
ments provided by the story
subjects, or were witnessed
by the reporter.
In most cases where dia-
logue is used, the majority of
the subjects interviewed
agree on the words that
were spoken. The exception
is Sen. Pat Roberts’ conver-
sation with President George
W. Bush on Air Force One.
That section was recon-
structed based on the recol-
lections of Roberts, a former
journalist.
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good at it,” Roberts would say
Dave Williams/File photo
later. “Good at it in the sense
that he appreciates their sacri-
fice. And that it is for some-
thing.”
When the plane landed,
Roberts descended the steps
with Bush and watched the
president shrug off the head-
OK. Sure. I’ll make that the cold sluggishness. On the
last thing I do there today, I’ll Boeing tarmac, under a warm
meet with them. sun, Bush stripped off his blue
“Thank you. That will mean suit jacket, rolled up his shirt-
a lot to them and to me,” sleeves, and shook hands with
Roberts said. a wall of people along a fence
line, Boeing employees who
„ „ „ had come out to cheer him
enthusiastically. Much of the
As Air Force One banked work on Air Force One had
over Wichita in a sunny sky, been done here.
Roberts had no illusions The Funcheons — Bob,
about how meeting Sgt. Karen and Gloria — were at
Funcheon’s family would home, steeling themselves for
touch Bush: It would touch the meeting. Bob had put on a
him deeply, because Bush was gray dress shirt, and chose
a decent man. But it would deliberately to not put on a
not change his mind about the necktie.
war. “I wanted Bush to see me
“He doesn’t like the criti- casual,” he said later. “It was a
cism,” Roberts would say quiet message to him — that
keep your heart healthy
BY CARLA K. JOHNSON appeared Monday in the
Associated Press Archives of Internal Medicine,
the people who improved
CHICAGO — Here’s a health most were told to eat about
tip in a nutshell: Eating a three whole walnuts, seven or
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year — along with a seven or eight whole almonds.
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ter than boosting the olive oil involved in the study, cau-
in a typical Mediterranean tioned that adding nuts to a
diet. Both regimens cut the Western diet could lead to
heart risks known as metabol- weight gain and more health
ic syndrome in more people risks. “But using nuts to replace
than a low-fat diet did. a snack of chips or crackers is a
“What’s most surprising is very favorable change to make
they found substantial meta- in your diet,” Manson said.
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calorie reduction or weight Association says 50 million
loss,” said JoAnn Manson, Americans have metabolic
chief of preventive medicine syndrome, a combination of
at Harvard’s Brigham and health risks, such as high
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intelligence briefings, that the
Air Force was scrambling F-
16s to shoot down any passen-
ger plane approaching the
city.
When he spoke, later that
Sept. 11, about F-16s scram-
bling to blow civilians out of
a family that lost a young man
in Iraq, and they’d like to meet
you. They’ve talked with your
staff, but it would be a favor to
them and a personal favor to
me if you could meet them.”
Bush hesitated.
What kind of a family are
later. “He doesn’t like the we are equals.”
‘Hate Bush’ crowd. And he
knows he’s right. He’s sure of Coming Thursday: A meeting
it. When you get to know him,
you see he’s got this tremen-
on Air Force One
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done is right, that it’s neces-
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the sky, the horror of it choked
him up.
A year and a half later, in
early 2003, Bush ordered the
U.S. invasion of Iraq. And
now, in 2007, the war had
they?
“They just want to meet
with you because they lost
their son. They don’t want to
do anything to embarrass
you.”
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try to bring stability to the
Middle East.”
Roberts knew Bush met fre-
quently, without fanfare, with
families of dead soldiers.
“I hate to say it, but he’s

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a grocery store and medical
services.
The Eagle reported Tuesday
last week’s City Council meet-
ing as the “principal develop-
er” of the Renaissance Square
Gaudreau’s role is “significant.”
“He is one of the partners in
this particular project, or he’s
very similar to being a person
Now you can heat 500 to 1000 sq. ft. for pennies a day with the advanced
project in central Wichita. that’s the project manager,”
But Tuesday, Fearey and Brewer said.
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that Grant Gaudreau, a project
negotiator connected with
development group ICDC LLC,
has been sued at least 35
times since 2001, mainly over
unpaid bills and bounced
checks.
Gaudreau also faces a state
warrant in Butler County for
about $12,300 in unpaid
income taxes and previously
headed a hotel venture that
went bankrupt in 2004, owing
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who initiated the idea. Tuesday on the first floor of
“Grant was never a big City Hall, 455 N. Main.
money player in this,” Fearey
said. “He’s always just been Reach Brent D. Wistrom
the person who had time to
come to the city and work
through things and also knew
at 316-268-6228 or
bwistrom@wichitaeagle.com.
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Gaudreau blamed his ongo-
ing problems on ripples from
the hotel bankruptcy and said
that ICDC had been reorga-
nized last month to change his
role from partner to consul-
tant.
Last week, the council
approved a project plan for
the development. But it put a
one-week hold on a formal
agreement.
The agreement calls for the
city to borrow $6.5æmillion
against future property taxes
to obtain land for the develop-
er and provide additional pub-
licly funded improvements.
Under the plan, ICDC would
commit to more than $80 mil-
lion in improvements.
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tem.”
Now, she said, she under-
stands he’s not even a partner
in ICDC.
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