Blind Ambition: the End of the Story

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Bud Krogh asked me casually.
    It was a warm afternoon in May 1970, and we were walking toward a park bench that was well shaded by the aged trees surrounding the Ellipse. Bud had invited me to his White House office and, when I arrived, had suggested that we take a stroll so that we could talk, but I had had no idea what he wanted to talk about. I was pleasantly surprised by the question.
    “Why do you ask?” I countered, trying to check my impulse to give way to the flattery.
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...ened to Bud telling me he had recommended me for President Nixon’s White House staff, I was also paying attention to the little voice in the back of my head that was telling me to act reserved, to remember the negative impressions I had collected about the White House: friends haggard and drained from long hours of pressure, able men reduced to “gophers” and errand boys, breaking their necks whenever one of the President’s top aides had a whim.MoreLess

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