Scott McClellan, a former spokesman for the Bush White House rocked the capital last week with a provocative memoir.
He joins Terry Gross to talk about the book — titled What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception — about what prompted him to go public, and about the torrent of response from both sides of the partisan aisle. Also: Excerpts from some of the more contentious press conferences from McClellan's days as White House press secretary.
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