The Books: The Kiss-and-Tell Club
Newsweek, April, 2004 by Michael Beschloss
In 1939 Raymond Moley, a onetime member of Franklin Roosevelt's "brain trust," published a memoir charging that his ex-boss had been ruinously captured by leftists. When Republicans used Moley's tract to attack FDR, the president privately muttered that Moley had "kissed a-- and told."
Ronald Reagan's former budget director David Stockman took on his old boss by writing in a 1986 memoir that Reagan, then serving his second term, had been "misled" into letting deficits explode: "What do you do when your president ignores all the palpable relevant facts and wanders in circles?" Democrats said that Stockman's book proved that they had been right all along: the emperor had no clothes.
Richard Clarke's new book, "Against All Enemies," is the latest entry in the category...
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