12/6/2002

“On December 6 [2002], in a dramatic shake-up of [President] Bush’s economic team, Treasury Secretary Paul O’Neill and Lawrence Lindsay, Bush’s top economic adviser, resigned under pressure, Lindsay after having said the cost of the war could be as much as $200 billion, far above the administration’s official estimate of $50 billion to $60 billion.”

 – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 268