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- Nov 07, 2020
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- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had some adventures at the White House, but hardly enough to fill a full memoir.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was a mistake to think that my views would have been taken on their own terms. It was a mistake to think that my last name wouldn't be a factor.
- Gold
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- Nov 07, 2020
As for the financial world - I've been working in the Forbes building for eight years. You soak up a little bit of ambient stuff about all this - I know what a gold straddle is, what the Lombard rate is.
- House
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first novel I wrote, 'The White House Mess,' was a comic novel. It came out in 1986. It was a parody in the form of a White House memoir.
- George Bush
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had worked for George Bush as a speechwriter, and I read a lot of White House memoirs. They all have two themes: 'It Wasn't My Fault' and 'It Would Have Been Much Worse if I Hadn't Been There.'
- Boundaries
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catch-22's admirers cross boundaries - ideological, generational, geographical.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
The ideological distance between Jim Webb and Bertrand Russell can be measured in light years. An author who reaches both of them exerts something like universal appeal.
- Laugh
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- Nov 07, 2020
Catch-22's first readers were largely of the generation that went through World War II. For them, it provided a startlingly fresh take, a much-needed, much-delayed laugh at the terror and madness they endured.
- Hope
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.
- Lobbyists
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- Nov 07, 2020
Lobbyists didn't descend from a spaceship. They evolved organically from the way we do business.
- Planet
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- Nov 07, 2020
We live - on a spinning planet in a world of spin.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
We make our public servants jump through quite a few hoops, you know. We get hysterical if they accept a $50 lunch from a lobbyist. We get hysterical if they accept a ride on some corporate jet.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020