Peril

by Bob Woodward

“Do so in a way that shows your authenticity. After all is said and done, that’s what people want to see. The sincerity. The genuineness.”

“Do you know why Tillerson was able to say he didn’t call the president a ‘moron’?” McConnell would dryly ask colleagues in his Kentucky drawl. “Because he called him a ‘fucking moron.’ ”

Biden was a man who got along with his colleagues, who formed bonds, even if their political views did not align.

“As a kid, I read a lot about the Holocaust and Germany in the 1930s,” Sanders later told others. “Germany was one of the most cultured countries in Europe. One of the most advanced countries. So how could a country of Beethoven, of so many great poets and writers, and Einstein, progress to barbarianism? “How does that happen? We have to tackle that question. And it’s not easy.”