Posted on 06/04/2008 8:20:52 AM PDT by cassy.kane
The only presidential press secretary who ever resigned in protest over a policy disagreement with his boss said that Scott McClellan should have done the same thing if he didn’t agree with President Bush on Iraq or any other matters.
“If he didn’t believe in something the Administration was doing or felt that officials like [former White House deputy chief of staff] Karl Rove or [former White House communications director] Dan Bartlett or President Bush weren’t leveling with him, McClellan should have quit,” said Jerry terHorst, the only presidential press secretary in the history of the job to resign in protest over Administration policy. “There could have been more who did it, before and after me,” added terHorst, who quit as Gerald Ford’s press secretary after in 1974 over then-President’s pardon of former President Richard Nixon.
Now 86 and retired to Asheville, North Carolina, terHorst interrupted his reading of McClellan’s controversial new memoir "What Happened" to talk to me last week. Of the book, he said “The thing that bothers me is he never says when he came to believe he was mouthing falsehoods or why he felt that way. I don’t see any of that in the book.”
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