Ron Suskind: And Then What Happened?

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Your book includes many seemingly verbatim exchanges among officials. Are these approximate quotations?

No. I used quote marks only when more than one source remembered something precisely the same way. And often I would check those quotes later with others. I had just over 100 key sources for the book. Or some of the quotations were written down as transcriptions by someone. There's no New Journalism here.

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