The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir

“Hard Pounding this, gentlemen. Let’s see who will pound the longest.” – The Duke of Wellington, Rallying his troops at Waterloo, 1815.

“I cannot offer a comprehensive theory of the Trump Administration’s transformation because none is possible. Washington’s conventional wisdom on Trump’s trajectory, however is wrong. The received truth, attractive to the intellectually lazy, is that Trump was always bizarre, but in his first fifteen months, uncertain in his new place, and held in check by an “axis of adults”, he hesitated to act.”