“John Newcombe, an Australian former tennis champion, has finally revealed the details of an infamous ‘drinking duel’ with George W Bush that nearly cost the young Texan the presidency,” the Telegraph reports.

“The drinking bout near the Bush family’s Kennebunkport summer home in Maine, in which the two matched each other beer for beer, ended with Bush’s arrest for drink-driving, which he then kept secret for 24 years. But five days before winning his first presidential election in 2000, the story of the arrest broke on United States television, prompting Bush to confess to the traveling press pack that he had been arrested for drink-driving during his ‘party boy’ days. ”

Some Washington, D.C. public school 7th graders “were assigned the rather unpatriotic task this week of comparing Adolf Hitler to former President George W. Bush. But now the school district wants you to know that such an intellectual exercise is not part of the official D.C. curriculum,” the Washington City Paper reports.

Neither of former President George W. Bush’s twin daughters are registered as Republicans, the New York Daily News reports.

Jenna Bush Hager mistakenly signed up with the Independence Party in New York when she meant to declare herself an independent. Records show her sister, Barbara, is registered to vote in Texas as unaffiliated with any party.

“What is it about August?”

— Former President George H.W. Bush, quoted by the Associated Press.

“We did not seek an impeachment of President Bush, because as an executive, he had his authority. President Obama has the authority.”

— Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX), quoted by BuzzFeed, apparently forgetting that she co-sponsored legislation to impeach President George W. Bush over the Iraq war.

Former President George W. Bush has been working on a “highly personal project since leaving the White House: He has quietly completed a biography of his father, former President George H.W. Bush,” the AP reports.

The book will be released on November 11.

A new Quinnipiac poll finds that 58% of Americans believe President Obama’s decision to withdraw troops from Iraq in 2011 was the right thing to do.

In contrast, 61% said that George W. Bush’s decision to invade in 2003 was the wrong thing to do and 51% of voters blame Bush for the current problems in Iraq.

Republican National Committee: “In honor of President George W. Bush’s birthday, we’re offering a blue, special-edition ‘I Miss W.’ t-shirt.”

“He’s like the A-Rod of politics.”

— David Plouffe, quoted by the New York Times, on former Vice President Dick Cheney.

“If they hadn’t gone to war in Iraq, none of this would be happening. Mr. Cheney has been incredibly adroit for the last six years or so attacking the administration for not doing an adequate job of cleaning up the mess that he made. And I think it’s unseemly. And I give President Bush, by the way, a lot of credit for trying to stay out of this debate and letting other people work through it.”

— Bill Clinton, in an interview with NBC News.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney blasted President Obama as a weak president after a foreign policy speech that was an implicit rebuke of the Bush administration, The Hill reports.

Said Cheney: “He is a very, very weak president. Maybe the weakest — certainly in my lifetime.”

“If he doesn’t think that was torture, I would invite him anywhere in the United States to sit in a waterboard and go through what those people went through, one of them 100-plus-odd times.”

— Sen. Angus King (I-ME), in an interview on MSNBC, on Vice President Cheney defending the “enhanced interrogation techniques” used by the CIA under the Bush administration.

“If I would have to do it all over again, I would. The results speak for themselves.”

— Dick Cheney, quoted by Huffington Post, on the Bush administration’s use of enhanced interrogation techniques like waterboarding.

NBC News: “As Republicans complain about the Obama administration’s latest deadline extension for Americans to purchase health insurance, Democrats are countering with this reminder: The Bush administration did something similar in 2006.”

“Back then, as it was implementing the Medicare prescription-drug benefit Bush had signed into law, the GOP presidential administration announced it was waiving penalties for low-income seniors and those with disabilities who signed up late.”

Kevin Drum: “You’ve probably seen this before from other sources, but the chart… basically shows that for the past 40 years voting patterns haven’t differed much by age. In fact, there’s virtually no difference between generations at all until you get to the George Bush era. At that point, young voters suddenly leave the Republican Party en masse. Millennials may be far less likely than older generations to say there’s a big difference between Republicans and Democrats, but their actual voting record belies that.”

“Whatever it was that Karl Rove and George Bush did–and there are plenty of possibilities, ranging from Iraq to gays to religion–they massively alienated an entire generation of voters. Sure, they managed to squeak out a couple of presidential victories, but they did it at the cost of losing millions of voters who will probably never fully return. This chart is their legacy in a nutshell.”

“Another George Bush scored a statewide victory in Texas on Tuesday, a win that could pave the way for a much bigger career,” Politico reports.

“George P. Bush — the nephew of former President George W. Bush and son of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush — was running for land commissioner in the Lone Star State and easily defeated little-known Republican primary opponent David Watts, a businessman from East Texas.”