Epstein Secrets

r Silvio Berlusconi, Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar, Sarkozy, and -- the lone survivor among t

ence of recent incumbents offered no guidance. No President since Dwight D. Eisenhower had served two full terms. John F. Kennedy was assassinated. Lyndon Johnson, overwhelmed by the war in Vietnam, had declined to run for reelection in 1968. Richard Nixon resigned less than seventeen months into his second

about the time that | was being interviewed by a couple of students from a Catholic girls’ school. Suddenly Sheila, 7he Reaj/ist's “Scapegoat,” and Marcia, the “Shit-On” --she had given herself that title because “What could be lower than a Scapegoat?” --walked out of their office totally nude. “Sorry

roucho somehow got into a negative space. He was equally cynical about institutions, such as marriage-- “legal quicksand” --and individuals, such as Lyndon Johnson, referred to as “that potato-head.” Eventually, | asked, “What gives you hope?” He thought for a moment. Then he just said one word: “People.” |

s on the list, as was Ann Coulter. Fox Business’s Maria Bartiromo was also under consideration. (This was

pressed him to invoke Andrew Jackson as his populist model, and he had loaded up on Jackson books (they remained unread). But his real beau ideal was Lyndon Johnson. LBJ was a big man who could knock heads, do deals, and bend lesser men to his will. Trade it out so in the end everyone got something, and the bette