Documentary Special
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Aired: Wednesday, April 24, 2002
Rating: 10.3/16
Review by Toniann
Credits
Interview material by William Couturie
and Eli Attie & Felicia Willson
Directed by William Couturie
Section titles
Half of a Windowless Closet
Ride the Sizzler
A Pride of Lions
The Blood Sport of Washington
Room Up On Mount Rushmore
Truth to Power
A Very Human Place
The interviews
Gene Sperling
White House Chief Economic Advisor
Clinton Administration
"To have an office in the West Wing, I would take half of a windowless closet... and that's pretty much what they gave me."
Dee Dee Myers
White House Press Secretary
Clinton Administration
Marlin Fitzwater
White House Press Secretary
Reagan/G.H.W. Bush Administrations
Peggy Noonan
Presidential Speechwriter
Reagan Administration
Betty Currie
Personal Secretary to the President
Clinton Administration
Ken Duberstein
White House Chief of Staff
Reagan Administration
President Jimmy Carter
39th President of the United States
"Quite often, very articulate people would come into the Oval Office to ask a favor, and when they got there they couldn't speak."
"It's an exhilirating and challenging and unpredictable and adventurous and gratifying life, being President."
David Gergen
White House Advisor
Nixon/Ford/Reagan/Clinton Administrations
Michelle Crisci Meyercord
Special Assistant
Clinton Administration
"You think, okay, we'll go by the picnic for a few hours... and you get in line and you ride the Sizzler with Alan Greenspan and you think, this job is crazy."
Leon Panetta
White House Chief of Staff
Clinton Administration
Paul Begala
Counselor to the President
Clinton Administration
Kris Engskov
Aide to the President
Clinton Administration
Karl Rove
Senior Advisor to the President
George W. Bush Administration
President Gerald R. Ford
38th President of the United States
President William J. Clinton
42nd President of the United States
"The day I walked out of the White House I was more idealistic than the day I walked in."
Dr. Henry Kissinger
Secretary of State/National Security Advisor
Nixon/Ford Administrations
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