will be no they waived executive privilege. the president s lawyer has now created this new theory even if we don t exercise privilege in front of congress, which is where the privilege is usually used, that somehow this creates a lifetime vow of silence among any executive branch employee about anything that happened, even if the president talked about it first, even if the conversation point to the kind of crimes that u.s. versus nixon said void executive privilege. somehow that anyone who has ever had contact with the president has a lifetime obligation not to repeat what the president said. that s a wacky theory. and of course conversations with the president appear in every washington memoir where the memoirist has ever had a conversation with the president. i m a big believer in the old tradition that when i work for a president, if you write a memoir, you never quote the president directly because he has a right to privacy. but not if he is inviting you to take part in cri
white house of any attempts at trying to exert executive privilege. the white house said there will be no they waived executive privilege. the president s lawyer has now created this new theory even if we don t exercise privilege in front of congress, which is where the privilege is usually used, that somehow this creates a lifetime vow of silence among any executive branch employee about anything that happened, even if the president talked about it first, even if the conversation point to the kind of crimes that u.s. versus nixon said void executive privilege. somehow that anyone who has ever had contact with the president has a lifetime obligation not to repeat what the president said. that s a wacky theory. and of course conversations with the president appear in erashington memoir where th memoirist has ever had a conversation with the president. i m a big believer in the old tradition that when i work for a president, if you write a