What I’m Reading: All The President’s Men – 28 in a series – “…watch their own ideals disintegrate.”

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“But what it was like for young men and women to come to Washington because they believed in something and then to be inside and see how things worked and watch their own ideals disintegrate.

People in the White House believed they were entitled to do things differently, to suspend the rules, because they were fulfilling a mission; that was the only important thing, the mission. It was easy to lose perspective, Sloan said.”

All The President’s Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

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