Epstein Secrets

on. "When you don't build those personal relationships," Manchin told CNN, "it's pretty easy for a person to say, `Well, let me think about it.' " Harry Truman once called the White House "the great white jail," but few Presidents seem to have felt as oppressed by Washington as Obama does. At one stop on t

Benjamin C. Bradlee, the editor who built the Washington Post by joining the Times in publishing the Pentagon Papers, in 1971, and who stood behind Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein as they began publishing the Watergate exposés that led to the fall of the Nixon Presidency. I asked Obama how he could reconcil

way.” World War II was racketed by presidential conspiracies of silence: Franklin D. Roosevelt knew that Japan was going to attack Pearl Harbor; and Harry Truman knew that Japan was about to make peace overtures but he nevertheless ordered that atomic bombs be dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Domestically, t

Actually, you’ ve kept one big campaign promise--to send more troops to Afghanistan--so | guess we can’ t fault you for that. In fact, according to Bob Woodward in Obama’ s Wars, all you want to do now is get out of Afghanistan. Well, why don’ t you just do what Osama bin Laden did; cross over to Pakistan. Si

uddenly bad-mouthing his friend Ailes as a “loser.” And yet in one regard Murdoch’s message was useful to Bannon. Having known every president since Harry Truman—as Murdoch took frequent opportunities to point out— and, he conjectured, as many heads of state as anyone living, Murdoch believed he understood bet

essful tenants of the White House were treated as unique figures who had risen to the greatest heights after mastering a Darwinian political process. Bob Woodward, who helped bring Nixon down —and who himself became a figure of unchallengeable presidential mythmaking—wrote a long shelf of books in which even th