Kanye West (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

When portions of George W. Bush's new memoir, "Decision Points," were leaked Tuesday, a range of revelations lit up the national conversation.

Bush had considered dropping Dick Cheney from the reelection ticket. He defended his decision to go into Iraq. He approved the use of water-boarding.

But the revelation that has caught everyone's eye: his pain over Kanye West's 2005 remark that "George Bush doesn't care about black people."

In an interview to air Monday night with Matt Lauer, the 43rd president confirms it as the "lowest moment of his presidency."

Bush tells Lauer: "It's one thing to say, 'I don't appreciate the way he's handled his business.' It's another thing to say, 'This man's a racist.' I resent it. It's not true. And it was one of the most disgusting moments in my presidency."

Well, West feels Bush's pain. After the fallout around his interruption of starlet Taylor Swift, West knows what it's like to be accused of being a racist.

"With both situations," West said to KBXX radio in Houston, "it was basically a lack of compassion that America saw in that situation. With him, it was a lack of compassion with him not rushing, you know, him not taking the time to rush down to New Orleans. With me, it was a lack of compassion of cutting someone off in their moment."

West goes on to say that "we're all quick to pull a race card in America."

I'm not sure if interrupting an award's speech is on par with a slow federal response to a devastating hurricane, but it's nice to know that West and Bush can start a friendship together. I'd love to see a duet.

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Following the New York Times' scoop on George W.Bush'supcoming memoir, NBC is out tonight with excerpts of an interview Matt Lauer conducted with the former president set to air next week.

Among other things, Bush says the lowest moment of his presidency was when rapper Kanye West declared in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that "Bush doesn't care about black people." "That 'he's a racist,' " Bush told Lauer. "I resent it, it's not true, and it was one of the most disgusting moments of my presidency."

Bush writes, per Lauer, that he can barely think about the moment "without feeling disgust" and that it outranks people criticizing him for the war in Iraq or his efforts to cut taxes to benefit the rich.

In the interview, Lauer interjects, telling Bush he's likely to take "heat" for saying the "worst moment" was not watching the post-Katrina misery in Louisiana but rather when someone insulted him because of that misery. "The misery in Louisiana affected me deeply as well," Bush told Lauer. "There's a lot of tough moments in the book. And it was a disgusting moment, pure and simple."

According to NBC, Bush also reveals that administration officials investigated a terrorist attack at the White House after 9/11 when bio-detectors indicated a potential botulism attack. "We had all been exposed to it and had we inhaled it, we could easily be dead," Bush told Lauer.

Officials went so far as to test the air on lab mice. "We kind of chuckled and said, 'Well, if the mice are feet up, we're goners. And if they're feet down, we're fine,' " Bush said.

Investigators ruled the scare eventually as a false alarm.