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Summary: Boring
Review: Dont waste your money. The majority of the book concerns him and his uneventful military career.
What he has to say about Clinton and his behavior while in office is trivial.
It seems his eyewitness account was confined to observing who was trying to avoid Hillary in the
halls of the white house and acting as an occasional telephone messenger between Clinton and his subordinates.
This should give you an idea how the book is written.
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Summary: I think the author is derelict in his own duty.
Review: People that kiss and tell are despicable. Whatever your thoughts on the Clinton Presidency, you'd think that a professional military officer, even a retired officer, would have a little more going for him than to turn to muck raking after he retired. If the author was so disgusted with the leadership, he should have requested reassignment or resigned. I suppose he was just looking for his next paycheck. How sad.
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Summary: A "Must Read" for Every American
Review: It's hard to imagine an author with a more impeccable background and no ax to grind in terms of ambition. Patterson provides insight only he could provide. He also provides facts and details versus innuendo and hypothesis. Whatever your political position, you should read this book. While obviously critical of both Hillary and Bill, Patterson presents the facts in FIRST HAND detail. Clinton grossly harmed our National Security and nearly every veteran will concur with that assertion. I knew that fact before reading the book. What I didn't know was many of the details and Patterson filled in many of the blanks. A FANTASTIC book.
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Summary: Fear of Disaster, The Clinton Years
Review: I find it interesting that most negative reviews, regarding this book, discuss George W. Bush, not Clinton. Be aware that this book is about Clinton, his loathing of the military and his putting the United States in jeopardy by severely harming the military. The book is not about George W. Bush. One additional observation. The liberals are trying to give our military success to Clinton. Just think about it, and be glad North Korea or China didn't act out when we were in Iraq. We would have been hard pressed to find the assets to defend Taiwan or South Korea. We would have been in a world of hurt. And that my friend, is the true Clinton Legacy. Clinton was a master bookcooker, acomplished liar and a confessed felon. That is the subject matter of this book. It is well written, informative and make the reader wonder why the Clintons have not been tarred and feathered yet.
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Summary: Both the President and the Officer failed us.
Review: This book differs from most of the other anti-Clinton polemics in that it is not written by an professional pundit. Rather, Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" Patterson is part of that rarefied circle of military officers who have been assigned the generally dull but absolutely essential duty of carrying "the football"--the small black bag that bestows on the President the godlike power of destroying the earth, should it ever come to that. The book is partially a critique of Clintonian foreign policy. Patterson distains the liberal interventionist approach advocated by Secretary Albright and often adopted by Clinton, which led to attempts at nation-building in Somalia, Haiti, and Kosovo. The same point has been made by better writers than Patterson. Yet slender critque of Clinton Administration foreign policy by a retired mid-level officer would not interest a publisher. Kiss-and-tell relevations by the holder of the football, however, clearly would and did. Despite this, the sordid details he reveals do nothing but confirm the emerging historical consensus about Bill Clinton--that he was simultaneously the most brilliant and adroit politican of his generation and a person of low moral character. Lt. Col. Patterson should have never written this book. The carrier of the football should realize that he is not following the President all day or all night simply to make observations on his character or abilities that might subsequently interest a publisher. He is there only because the football needs to be within twenty or so feet of the President at all times. A good officer would realize this and shut up about what he heard and saw. At the height of the Lewinsky scandal, Secret Service agents stated that they would refused to testify if subpoenaed, even though they were material witnesses. They reasoned that what they saw was none of their business, and that if they did testify, they would cause future presidents to keep them at arms' length, thereby compromising the mission. Bill Clinton has the morals of a pickpocket. But Lt. Col. Patterson should have thought more about how his book deal might compromise the mission he swore to uphold.
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Summary: Must Read
Review: Although a short & simply worded piece, Patterson's book brings home the point that Clinton inflicted tremendous harm upon the United States. At various points, while reading the book, I experienced great anger at Clinton's complete disregard for America's national security. The scandals that we read about in the newspapers are only the tip of the iceburg. Bill Clinton's treachery was much deeper. His sexual escapades aside (i.e. Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky, and his attempted sexual advance on a female military officer on Air Force 1), Bill Clinton held the military in contempt. Shame on the United States for not following through on the impeachment of this wretched man. His conduct was certainly not becoming of a Commander in Chief of the greatest nation on earth. Patterson, through Dereliction of Duty, exposes the criminal & negligent behavior of Bill Clinton during his terms as President.
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Summary: Disgrace of the office
Review: I have heard Mr. Potterson on a couple of radio interviews and he comes across very credible and with his background this book has to me taken seriously. I voted for Mr. Clinton twice and this revelations are absolute disgrace ...I wish these types of writers will come out earlier with their eyewitnesses account so we public vote the "right" man to the office. Everyone has to read it with open mind; Clinton took presidency very lightly. There was a story about his traveling around the world he would, on Patterson's last trip to Africa with Clinton in 1998, "the accompanying staff totaled 1,302 federal officials"; Military Airlift Command flew 144 cargo mission and 110 serial refueling missions to support them. During 1995 and 1996 , the Clintons invited at least 477 guest to accompany them ( and that isn't counting staff, family members, and the press). My God and we, tax payers, had to pay for it? Where were the media to report these? MUST READ, it is truly eyeing opening for people who trusted him at least on the professional front of his presidency...I did not like to Monica soap opera I thought that was his personal business but in this book it shows his abuse of his power is unforgivable.
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Summary: This Book Wasn't Neccessary
Review: It's true that this book shouldn't entice so many people to come out saying they hate Bush so much, since it is about Clinton, and not him. However, I really have read this book because I was curious about this eye-witness account, and I will tell you that it is quite biased from a Republican's viewpoint...
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Summary: Great, much-needed info about Clinton in "daily life"
Review: This is a great book--a quick, engaging read filled with specific facts about the reduction of the military under Clinton, and anecdotes about Clinton the man. Its stories of the day-to-day Clinton, by a military aide who worked in the Clinton White House for two years--are important for every American to know about. Patterson, as many reviewers have noted, has no personal ax to grind with Clinton, but as a military man, he clearly felt this story needed to be told. Why? Not to make Clinton "look bad"--that's really only a byproduct, despite the book's title--but to educate Americans in the job the military plays in national defense, and to show how the actions of one president compromised the functioning of that military to the point of placing the country in extreme danger. Clinton's defenders--who assume this to be just another lurid attack on "their guy"--miss the point of the book. They respond, "Eh, all presidents had some failings, give him a break," or they complain that Clinton's critics have jumped on him for "not having military experience." But Clinton's lack of military experience, and even his various sins in the Oval Office, do not constitute the main point of this book; the point is that Clinton--as amply demonstrated in his words, attitudes, behavior toward military aides, and disastrous defense policies while president--had a dangerous disregard both for the dignity of the office of president (who should be the ultimate public "servant") and for the traditional role of the military in American foreign policy. He and Hillary displayed an unprecendented arrogance in power, distributing favors and perks to friends at the taxpayers' expense, running up hundreds of millions of dollars in travel expenses, much of it requiring extensive military support, and sending the military on missions with no real goal other than to make him look good politically--while at the same time reducing the size of the military by a third to a half. After reading this book, I'm now convinced that it's the president's role as commander in chief that should be the primary consideration at election time. Which candidate do you believe capable of drafting a strong foreign policy, and leading and inspiring the men and women who must lay down their lives to protect the freedom of their country? Someone like Clinton is not the one, and this valuable book makes us understand why we need to beware of Clintonian characteristics in future candidates. [...]
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Summary: Another conservative bully POV
Review: America is sick of playground bullies telling us what and how to think. Advice: get a real job.
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