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Summary: a collapse of maturity
Review: about as helpful, intelligent and/or reliable as a ham sandwich, this book is one man's bitter tirade against an administration who decided he needn't work for them. the ambition and reasoning for writing the book is solely for the money coming in for book sales - do not believe it was any sort of civic duty.
the book grounded up Aldrich's reliability and outright respectability. he is no more than a whiner and opportunist with this book.
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Summary: Why is everyone afraid to talk about this guy
Review: I was surprised how long ago this came out and I had never heard of it. I thought this was a different prospective than most of the book I have read on this subject. I didn't think that the story was sensationalized. I don't know why the media or Congress didn't get in on this.
I guess I believe the people who work at the White House should be the best in their field and maintaining that standard through background checks does not seem outrageous.
I can't understand why the Clinton's hated the FBI and the Secret Service people so much they were there to help them. If it is true of how Hillary Clinton acted in the White House and the Media didn't report it, then the media is truly Liberal.
I was surprised how much trouble Mr. Aldrich had in publishing the book and the problems he had with the FBI so that it was OK to print.
The best part of the book was some of the interviews that he had with staff that had done illegal drugs. Some of their responses of surprise and how they acted in general was pretty comical.
There seems to have been a lot of corruption in that administration. I guess the thing that frightened me the most was letting foreign agents see classified material if they were willing to pay off the Clintons.
I was surprised how much power Bill Clinton had to give up because of his philandering. No wonder Hillary Clinton was will to cover it up because she got all the power. She was truly disrespectful to people which is why she got so burned on that health care thing.
I could not understand why no one prosecuted Hillary Clinton for all the illegal things she did was it because she could always get a pardon from the President, I do not know.
I was surprised at the end about Bill Clinton's education and his Rhodes Scholar education where he never took classes and just mooched off of other people. I guess he has been doing that all his life.
It you want to see some basic problems with the Clinton administration that go beyond politics check out this book. If you think the Clinton's were straight arrows you will hate this book.
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Summary: Bonnie and Clyde
Review: Wes Pruden of The Washington Times once referred to Bill and Hillary Clinton as "the Bonnie and Clyde of American politics." I had always thought of them as a modern equivalent of the Borgias, but I think Pruden's quip was more accurate. The Borgias at least were nobility. There was nothing noble about the Clintons; they were ill-mannered, self-serving opportunists concerned only with power and wealth for themselves.It's been eight years since this book was released but it should still fill any loyal American with rage to read how the Clintons ran the White House. Aldrich had worked in the prim and proper Bush White House where loyalty to country and traditional White House protocol was the order of the day. The Clintons changed all that. They ran the White House like an Arkansas mafia where the only absolute requirement for staff was loyalty to Bill and Hillary and to hell with the country. It was all about them. At a time when no "professional journalist" seemed interested in the Clinton scandals, except for the redoubtable R. Emmett Tyrrell of The American Spectator, Aldrich was one of the first to come out with a truthful book about the Clintons. Not being a professional writer, he had no left wing bias but only his FBI training and loyalty to America to guide him. Aldrich's job was to do background checks on White House staff. Most of the book relates how the Clinton staff avoided and dodged FBI interviews. Indeed, most were totally unfit to work in the White House due to criminal backgrounds involving illegal financial schemes and drugs. But there they were from the beginning, dozens of them, from Bernard Nussbaum to DeeDee Meyers. All had daily access to top secret documents, and none of them with any more security rights than a temporary pass that would have been issued to any visitor. It is obvious by the author's tone that he was thoroughly disgusted with the entire Clinton administration. Aldrich resorts to some of the usual gossip that was always circulating, like Bill's midnight trysts at Washington hotels where he would sneak off to meet some babe, leaving the Secret Service detail at the White House. What a challenge Bill Clinton must have been for them. And Hillary too, making them walk at least ten paces behind her, she would shout obscenities at them in her imperious tone ordering them to stay away from her. This book gives the reader a hint of the ineptitude and slovenly manner of the early Clinton White House. Bill Clinton was totally unprepared for the presidency. It's almost like he never expected to win. He had no plan and no idea what to do. And after he did win, why did he give so much power to Hillary? Many speculate that he made a deal with her. She would keep quiet about Bill's womanizing and he would give her control of domestic affairs. The author alludes to this although he could not have had first-hand knowledge. He could, however, see that Hillary had almost total control of the White House. During the 1992 campaign Bill Clinton said that his would be "the most ethical administration in American history." In fact it was probably the most corrupt. Aldrich gives us a good look at how it started out all wrong. (Read "The Final Days" by the late Barbara Olsen to see how it only got worse.)
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Summary: Book in need of an editor
Review: This book is much more relevant to the American public now than when it was first published. The post 9/11 culture of a more sobered America will be less forgiving of this egregious trampling of our standards and qualifications for those who see, handle, and pass along our nation's top secret files and documents. When former FBI agent Gary Aldrich wrote this portentous book, I'm sure he could not have fathomed how devastatingly important his worries about a purposefully broken security system within the White House would prove to become within his lifetime. A feverish and almost successful attempt was made by the Clintons to keep this book out of the hands of "We the People." This book is DANGEROUS for all Americans of both political parties who DON'T read it. It's a jaw-dropping, eye-witness account of the intimate inner workings of a dysfunctional, "truth is relative," White House led by an illegitimate co-presidency fraught with jealousy and selfish ambition that gave way to every conceivable evil, long before the infamous headlines of shameful presidential misconduct reverberated around the world. Mr. Aldrich's primary assertion is that "character matters" and our nation's most recent history has vindicated him. The two key and extremely savvy political players about whom much of this book is written, have refused to recede into the background. Should they ever reemerge to live and reign another day, it would be a clear and present danger that Americans have now been warned about.
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