by GEF @ 5:58 PM MST
Carl Bernstein: Hillary Will Continue Bush’s Legacy of Secrecy
Posted October 23, 2007 04:21 PM (EST)
The following piece is part of an ongoing series of OffTheBus reports by citizen policy experts critiquing different aspects of Campaign 08.
“Hillary’s fear of humiliation, her fear of secrets being revealed, absolutely permeates her life,”
Carl Bernstein told a packed auditorium at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, CA., earlier this week.
Bernstein is the Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter on Watergate, and author of a new book on Hillary, A Woman in Charge. His appearance in Yorba Linda was a historic moment of sorts, as he himself noted: if he had said in 1999, when he started doing research on Hillary, “that I would be invited to speak at the Nixon Library, and that I’d be talking about Hillary as possibly the next president of the United States, I’d be accused of smoking something – and inhaling.”