Bob Woodward said Sunday that he will invite White House economic adviser Gene Sperling to his home as a peace-making gesture after a flurry of coverage over an email exchange between the two — and that he hopes Sperling will bring President Obama along for the visit.
“He’s a peacemaker,” Woodward said on CBS’ “Face The Nation.” “I am in the business of listening, and I’m going to invite him over to my house if he’ll come and hopefully he’ll bring others from the White House, maybe the president himself, and we can — you know, talking really works.”
Sperling wrote in an email to Woodward that “as a friend, I think you will regret staking out that claim,” a reference to a Woodward op-ed in which he claimed Obama had once conceded that sequestration should be offset only by spending cuts. Though consensus is that email was friendly in nature, Woodward contended the sentence was code for “you better watch out.”
