Bush tight-lipped on Enron chief Lay's death: White House - Yahoo! News

What can he say? Anything he says now will only make matters worse.

Unless people in the Bush administration can be directly connected to the Enron case, this is a non-story.

Bush tight-lipped on Enron chief Lay's death: White House - Yahoo! News:

"WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush once reportedly called him 'Kenny Boy,' but the White House had few kind words for former Enron chairman Kenneth Lay on his death.

Spokesman Tony Snow would not say how Bush reacted to the passing of Lay, 64, who died while awaiting sentencing for fraud and conspiracy in one of America's largest corporate scandals.

'The president had described Ken Lay as an acquaintance. And many of the president's acquaintances have died during his time in office,' Snow said.

Lay was close to the Bush family and a major Republican Party contributor."