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As 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. He 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. Upon 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. Most Surprisingly Of All, He Realized That To Do His Job Prop

Author

Lanny J. Davis

Publisher

New York: Free Press

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780684862781

Subjects

Political Science, Business, History

Updated

2026-03-24