The book quickly became a media sensation for its candid, insider's critique of the Bush administration and ran as a leading story on most top news outlets days after the content became public. The book was scheduled to be released on Jhowever, excerpts were released to the press a week before publication. What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception is an autobiographical bestseller by Scott McClellan, who served as White House Press Secretary from 2003 until 2006 under President George W. Mitt Romney on airplane windows, Hollywood McClellan started the job last week his Arlington home is on the market and his family is house-hunting in Seattle: “I’m very excited.” There’s also the possibility of teaching politics or communications down the line. His political past was just part of a wide range of interview questions though McClellan is not Catholic, he said he was drawn by the school’s leadership and emphasis on community service. Instead, he was approached this summer by the small Jesuit college on the West Coast to become vice president of communications. (Melina Mara/The Washington Post )Įarlier this year, he flirted with the idea of moving back to his native Texas to work in higher education - his grandfather was the longtime dean at the University of Texas Law School in Austin, where McClellan grew up and his mother served as three-term mayor. Scott McClellan testifies before the House Judiciary Committee in 2008. “While it may have caused a stir inside the Beltway, I appreciated the way it was received across the country and believe anyone who reads it sees it for what it is - an honest account of how things veered off course and what we can learn from it going forward.” “I think most people have moved on,” McClellan said. (“This is not the Scott we knew,” Dana Perino said at the time.) A House committee hearing was called Though McClellan maintained the White House never deliberately deceived the public (and said nice things about his boss), top Bush officials viewed the book as a betrayal and went on the record to slam it and the author. “What Happened” described administration officials as being in permanent campaign mode and shading the truth to aggressively sell the Iraq war to voters.

Two years later, his tell-all sent shock waves around the Beltway. McClellan, 44, left the White House in May 2006. “I was just at a point where I wanted to explore other career paths.”

“I think politics has always been in my blood,” he told us Monday. Scott McLellan during a 2003 briefing in Crawford, Texas.

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