CHAPTER 5
Restraining a President
THE PRESIDENT RANTED AND RAVED. He was paranoid about a cabal of big media conglomerates, the political establishment, and his aides conspiring against him. He was working with the Russian leadership to tear down traditional American alliances in Europe. He had ideas about using the FBI and the full resources of the federal government to go after his perceived enemies. Our legislative and judicial branches struggled to rein in the most powerful man in the world.
This is not a summary of a recent presidential administration. Rather, it is the plot of a best-selling 1965 novel, Night of Camp David, by Fletcher Knebel. The book was reissued in 2018 as political pundits noted its frightening echoes of the Trump administration. ...
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