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050 00 $aJK554$b.D37 1999
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100 1 $aDavis, Lanny J.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n84027456
245 10 $aTruth to tell :$btell it early, tell it all, tell it yourself : notes from my White House education /$cLanny J. Davis.
260 $aNew York :$bFree Press,$c1999.
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520 $aAs President Bill Clinton's chief spokesman for handling "scandal matters," Lanny Davis had the unenviable job of briefing reporters and answering their pointed questions on the most embarrassing allegations against the president and his aides, from charges of renting out the Lincoln Bedroom to stories of selling plots in Arlington Cemetery, from irregular campaign fundraising to sexual improprieties.
520 8 $aHe was the White House's first line of defense against the press corps and the reporters' first point of entry to an increasingly reticent administration. His delicate task was to remain credible to both sides while surviving the inevitable crossfire.
520 8 $aUpon entering the White House, Davis discovered that he was never going to be able to turn bad news into good news, but he could place the bad news in its proper context and work with reporters to present a fuller picture. While some in the White House grew increasingly leery of helping a press corps that they regarded as hostile, Davis moved in the opposite direction, pitching unfavorable stories to reporters and helping them garner the facts to write those stories accurrately.
520 8 $aMost surprisingly of all, he realized that to do his job properly, he sometimes had to turn himself into a reporter within the White House, interviewing his colleagues and ferreting out information. Along the way, he learned the true lessons of why politicians, lawyers, and reporters so often act at cross-purposes and gained some remarkable and counterintuitive insights into why this need not be the case.
520 8 $aSearching out the facts wherever he could find them, even if he had to proceed covertly, Davis discovered that he could simultaneously help the reporters do their jobs and not put the president in legal or political jeopardy.
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651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1993-2001.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92006372
852 00 $bleh$hJK554$i.D37 1999