I feel a bit of a fraud writing about the ‘presidents I knew’, since journalists do not really get to know the great figures they interview or shake hands with. Indeed the relationship between journalist and great personage is about as false as any relationship can be, since each is trying to make use of the other.
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Sir Peregrine Worsthorne is a former editor of the Sunday Telegraph, and reported from Washington DC for the Times and the Daily Telegraph.
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