The former Special Assistant to the President for Spreading Horrible Rumors writes about the O’Neill-Bush flap:
“More is involved with him than pride and pique. While O’Neill records slights and is dismissed by some as a dotty reject, he does more than tell a few tales in the book The Price of Loyalty. The attack on him, consistent with Bush efforts to intimidate anyone who challenges the official version, underscores the inherent fragility of Bush’s public persona, upon which rests his popularity.”