Truth to Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself; Notes from My White House Education

Davis, Lanny J.

ISBN 10: 0684862786 / ISBN 13: 9780684862781

Published by The Free Press 1999284, [4] pages. Index. Pencil erasure on front endpaper. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed and dated by author on fep. Lanny Jesse Davis (born December 12, 1945) is an American lawyer, consultant, lobbyist, author, and television c., New York, 1999

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284, [4] pages. Index. Pencil erasure on front endpaper. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Black dot on bottom edge. Inscribed and dated by author on fep. Lanny Jesse Davis (born December 12, 1945) is an American lawyer, consultant, lobbyist, author, and television commentator. He is the co-founder of the law firm of Davis Goldberg & Galper PLLC, and co-founder and partner of the public relations firm Trident DMG. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a special counsel to President Bill Clinton, and was a spokesperson for the President and the White House on matters concerning campaign-finance investigations and other legal issues. In 2005, President George W. Bush appointed Davis to serve on the five-member Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board. Davis's clients have included the National Women's History Museum, National Black Chamber of Commerce, Sofitel Hotels, Trent Lott, Gene Upshaw, Dan Snyder, Martha Stewart and the Office of the President at Penn State University. Davis is a Fox News Contributor and has a column called "Purple Nation" that appears regularly in The Hill, The Huffington Post, FoxNews, and Newsmax. He is a graduate of Yale Law School. On a November afternoon in 1996, Lanny Davis got a phone call that would change his life. It was from a top aide at the White House, asking him if he was interested in joining the president's senior staff. Within a few short weeks he had signed on as special counsel to the president. Fourteen months later, his tour of duty almost over, he got another phone call, this time from a Washington Post reporter who asked, "Have you ever heard the name Monica Lewinsky?" In the time between those two phone calls, Davis received an extraordinary political education. As President Bill Clinton's chief spokesman for handling "scandal matters" he 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Truth to Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself; Notes from My White House Education
• Publisher: The Free Press 1999284, [4] pages. Index. Pencil erasure on front endpaper. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Inscribed and dated by author on fep. Lanny Jesse Davis (born December 12, 1945) is an American lawyer, consultant, lobbyist, author, and television c., New York
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684862786
• ISBN 13: 9780684862781
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing [Stated].
• Condition: Very good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • U.S. Presidents
  • Bill Clinton

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Synopsis

A leading political damage-control specialist--a former special counsel to President Clinton--shares the secrets of coping with scandal and for making bad news better, going behind the scenes of the Clinton adminstration to reveal how the White House managed and mismanaged political crises. 50,000 first printing.

About the Author

Lanny J. Davis served as special counsel to the president from December 1996 through January 1998. A partner in the Washington law firm Patton Boggs, where he specializes in litigation and strategic crisis management, Davis is a regular television commentator and has been a political and legal analyst for MSNBC. His articles have appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and USA Today. He lives in Potomac, Maryland.