What upset the former
White House ghost was the spectacle of a President who once called the Russians the "focus of all evil in the modern world" welcoming Soviet progress on human rights and acknowledging that the United States has its own "agonizing" problems of homelessness, racism and unemployment.
Major topics covered in "American Politics on the Rocks" includes: unusual presidential facts, feisty first ladies, family feuds, debate debacles, White House rats, diabolical dirty tricks, embarrassing hot microphone moments, inflammatory insults,
White House ghosts, and humiliating bloopers.
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White House Ghosts: Presidents and Their Speechwriters.
The stories of speechwriting in Robert SchlesingerEs fine book,
White House Ghosts,| suggest that thereEs an editing process in the West Wing designed to bludgeon all beauty in presidential rhetoric.