Morris, Roger. Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America. New York:
Henry Holt and Company, 1996. 526 pages.
One sport these days is to watch the major media sweat and squirm while
they wait for something to go away, and then it just gets bigger. This book
is a brisk bestseller as of July 1996, but after a month it still can't get
the attention it deserves from the press. The man in the street knows it's
hot, while the media pretend not to notice. There are two possibilities: the
major media no longer represent a free press, or this book is a reminder for
pundits and journalists that they screwed up in 1992 by missing every story.
Roger Morris has a doctorate from Harvard, and a widely-acclaimed biography
of Richard Nixon to his credit. In 1970 he resigned from the National
Security Council to protest the war in Vietnam. Morris writes well, his
sources are solid, and he spent three years on this book.
When all is said and done, the Clintons have a major character flaw:
again and again, they've sold out everything they've ever professed. For
example, Clinton at Oxford claims he was an anti-war protestor, but according
to inside sources, he was also spying on other protestors for the CIA. And
while governor of Arkansas, Clinton was aware of CIA drug-running and money-
laundering in Arkansas; if he didn't inhale it was only because he was too
busy snorting. Since this book leaves off in 1992, the big question now is
what's been going on in the White House for the last few years.
ISBN 0-8050-2804-8
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