President Bush denies Canseco's claims that he
knew players were "juiced"
February
7, 2005 -- President Bush immediately responded to Jose Canseco's
statements in his book and stated that he was unaware that some of his players allegedly were using performance-enhancing drugs when he was the general managing partner of the Texas Rangers, the White House said Monday.
President Bush was a managing partner of the Rangers during the early
1990s.
Canseco claims Bush must have known about his players' illegal drug use but did not address it.
As the New York Daily News first reported Sunday, Jose Canseco claims in his upcoming book, "Juiced: Wild Times, Rampant 'Roids, Smash Hits and How Baseball Got Big," that he introduced Rafael Palmeiro, Juan Gonzalez and Ivan Rodriguez to steroids after he was traded by the A's to the Rangers in 1992.
"If there was (steroid use), he was not aware of it at the time," White House press secretary Scott McClellan said of Bush.

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