Why Not Me?: The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency: The Inside Story Behind the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency - Hardcover

Franken, Al

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 038531809X ISBN 13: 9780385318099

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1999

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The best-selling author of Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations shares his entertaining thoughts on the rise and fall of America's forty-third president, drawing on his personal campaign diaries, newspaper clippings, confidential memos, and media responses on his tumultuous 144 days as president. 225,000 first printing.

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Al Franken is the author of I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough, and Doggone It, People Like Me! and Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot.  He lives in New York City with his wife and two children.

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heodore White's The Making of the President, 1960. Then All the President's Men. Now the searing chronicle that will forever change the way we view the man and the office . . .

The dramatic rise and dizzying fall of Al Franken, who would become the first Jewish president of the United States.

Franken began his unique American journey in the small town of Christhaven, Minnesota, the self-described "son of the son of immigrants and the son of a daughter of a son and daughter of immigrants."

Follow the Franken campaign from its infancy as the candidate pledges "to walk the state of New Hampshire, diagonally and then from side to side." As he candidly admits "causing pain in his marriage," then boldly refuses to dignify any questions from the media regarding past, present, or future sexual behavior.

Go behind the scenes and meet Tea

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An Excerpt from President Al Franken's Resignation Speech, June 10, 2001:

"Hopefully this will bring an end to the turmoil, as well as the numerous legal actions pending against me and my staff, occasioned by the politically motivated disclosure of the contents of my private diaries.  

Let me say here and now that I regret very deeply the harm that I've done both to people I care about and people I don't really care about all that much.  I am sorry.  I apologize.  It was wrong.  What I did was wrong.  I'm sorry.  I am so, so sorry.  Boy, am I sorry.

While I take full responsibility for the misfortunes that have befallen my presidency, others are not entirely without blame.  It had been my intention to pardon members of my staff and my administration.  But I forgot.  Sorry.  

I did, however, manage, with the reluctant assistance of Chief Justice Rehnquist, to pardon myself.  This will enable me to retain the prerogatives of an ex-president, including my pension, an office, and staff at taxpayer expense, lifelong Secret Service protection, and, eventually, burial in Arlington National Cemetery beneath an eternal flame.  

It is my fondest wish that in the fullness of time, the American people will look back on the Franken presidency as something of a mixed bag and not as a complete disaster."

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 038531809X
• ISBN 13: 9780385318099
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 289
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