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Obama's top advisers set to spill the beans
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Obama's top advisers set to spill insider details
By JULIE PACE
3 hours ago
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Over
the next month, two of President Barack Obama's closest first-term
advisers will spill insider details on the administration's handling of
the early days of the Great Recession, the White House's cautious
response to the Syrian civil war and the genesis of clandestine talks
with Iran.
Clinton and Geithner's books will be released just four months after former Defense Secretary Robert Gates' memoir landed like a sucker punch in the West Wing. Gates gave political advisers in the White House virtually no warning — and no advance copy — of his headline-generating memoir, which included sharp criticisms of Obama's decision-making.
However, Obama aides do not appear to be girding for a repeat of their experience with Gates' book as they await the release of Geithner and Clinton's memoirs.
While Geithner has not provided the White House with advance copies of his book, "Stress Test," the text has been reviewed by lawyers at Treasury and the Federal Reserve. And drafts of Clinton's book, "Hard Choices," have been circulating for months among a small number of officials in Obama's National Security Council.
Clinton's book will be combed for any sign of discord with Obama, the man who defeated her in the 2008 Democratic presidential primary campaign and whom she could run to replace in 2016. Clinton has said little about the book, due out June 10, though it is expected to center on the main foreign policy challenges she was involved in during her four-year tenure at the helm of the State Department, including Syria and the start of secret discussions with Iran that led to the current nuclear negotiations.
Discussing the book in March, Clinton said reliving her tumultuous years as secretary of state "has been eye-opening because when you are in the middle of it, you get up every day, you put one foot in front of the other and try to do the best you can."
Geithner's book comes out Monday and is expected to focus on the decisions the government made in response to the recession that gripped the United States at the start of Obama's presidency. Geithner was at the center of the negotiations over the administration's massive economic stimulus package and controversial Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill.
Clinton,
Geithner and Gates occupied the three most powerful positions in
Obama's Cabinet through much of his first term, giving their accounts
heightened importance in a literary landscape littered with books about
the White House.
Gates was
sharply critical of Obama's decision-making in his book "Duty: Memoirs
of a Secretary at War." He was also unsparing in his critique of Joe
Biden, accusing the vice president of having "been wrong on nearly every
major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four
decades."
Gates' assessment sent the White House into damage
control mode for several days, with officials issuing a statement from
Obama defending Biden and staging a photo opportunity of the two men
having lunch together.While former officials are not obligated to share their pending books with the White House, they do typically vet sensitive and potentially classified material with administration lawyers. Gates' book was vetted by the Pentagon. And chapters in Clinton's memoir were scoured by national security officials.
While
Clinton, Geithner and Gates are hardly the first former officials to
publish memoirs, it is unusual for books from three high-level advisers
to come in such rapid succession at this stage in the presidency.
Most
of former President George W. Bush's top Cabinet officials waited until
after he left office to write about their tenure. Paul O'Neill, Bush's
first Treasury secretary, did work with author Ron Suskind on a scathing
2004 book that accused the president of planning the Iraq war months
ahead of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. And Scott McClellan, who
served as Bush's press secretary, released a similarly harsh book in
2008, catching many officials off guard.
Tony
Fratto, a former Bush Treasury and White House official who was
involved in the administration's response to both books, said his
strategy was to put together a team of staffers, split up sections of
the book and start looking for potential problems.
"You
just take apart the book. What's the real story on that? What was he
talking about here?" Fratto said, adding that no matter how quickly that
effort gets underway, "you definitely feel like you're behind."
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