I can quarantee you that If the largest employer in my state of which I was governor, gave me millions of dollars to my governor and presidential campaigns, Gave me his company plane to use for my presidential campaign, (of which I gave him a personal thank you letter) and then during my presidential campaign I flew his plane to a baseball game because he was going to throw out the first pitch and I wanted to be there to see it, that I would know who he was no matter how busy my schedule was.
He told this lie because he was getting grilled about the Enron debacle and his involvement. His way out was to claim he did not know who the president of Enron was.
the only way I will believe it's not about oil, is if that President with aparent memory loss (Bush, not Reagan) says it is.