Sununu conceded that he had made mistakes. “If I had to do things over as chief of staff,” he says, “I might have given a lot more focus to trying to get the president to take the credit for what he accomplished.” Another error, he says, “was thinking that not talking to the press was a strong plus, and I did that out of loyalty to the president. I didn’t realize that maintaining a better relationship with the press would have been of value to the president.”
