As she was wracked with conflict and guilt, former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified that she began reading about witnesses who turned against the Nixon White House, Politico reports.
From her testimony: “I didn’t know that much about Watergate. I had heard John Dean’s name before, but then I come across this man named Alex Butterfield, who had… a similar role and title to what I had in the White House… And I found that he, a couple years ago, worked on this book with Bob Woodward… So l ordered two copies of this, had them shipped to my parents’ house, and I sat there that weekend and read it. And I read it three times. I read it once. Then I read it again, underlined. And then I read it a third time, and I went through and tabbed it.”
“And it was after I read all of this, where he had talked about like how he fought the moral struggle, where he felt like he still had to be loyal to the Nixon White House, but he talked about a lot of the same things that I felt like I was experiencing. And, you know, it wasn’t an identical situation, but it’s — it’s the — the emphasis he placed on the moral questions that he was asking himself resonated with me.”
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The Last of the President’s Men
- Hardcover Book
- Woodward, Bob (Author)
- English (Publication Language)
- 304 Pages – 10/13/2015 (Publication Date) – Simon & Schuster (Publisher)
