Mark Landler, Recent White House’s Memoirs Target Lame Duck Over a Potential Successor; A good way to avoid being scorched in print: Be a possible future president. New York Times, Oct 11, 2014
www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/us/po ... tial-successor.html
(“proof that in Washington, it is easier to kick a sitting second-term president than a potential future one”)
My comment:
(a) It (quotation) may be true: it is unlikely that in this late game, President Obama may appoint these memoir writers to plum positions--whereas Hillary can. But in my view, more important is a cabinet member does not have much power, which in modern times lies in White House aides.
(b) Read only the first several paragraphs, to get a taste of it. |