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Crisis of Character
A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate
Gary J. Byrne
Read by Brian Troxell

Hachette Audio
07/26/2016/ ISBN 9781478943679
Nonfiction / Biography / Secret Service / US Politics

Reviewed by Brenda Weeaks
 

 

Wow. Just when I thought I heard it all….

Crisis of Character is a shocking exposé about a First Couple we, as Americans, put our trust in ….

Gary J Bryne is a retired Secret Service agent. He shares what it was like to protect three different presidents in the White House. He sets the tone as he shares the respect both Bush Sr. and George W showed the White House and the staff, and how dramatically it all changed after the Clintons arrived. Respect and professionalism was out the window. President Clinton had sex with various women in the Oval office while a paranoid First Lady Clinton terrorized the staff and used the White House budget as her personal dinner party account. I got the impression the Clintons’ treated the White House as their personal mansion, the household staff like slaves, and the American people as their money bag.

Bryne tells us what it was like watching Clinton’s office staff behave like spoiled, vindictive teens, running in the hall and breaking security rules. Respect for our Country, the Secret Service, and the Rules and Regulations of the White House was nonexistent. When Bryne gets to the charges against the President he reveals how the legal system works when politicians are involved. It’s not nice, and those forced to testify become the targets, instead of the Clintons. We hear about Ken Starr again, and how hard he tried to pull the veil off of America’s eyes concerning this First Family. Bryne writes about his personal and professional life, and how he keeps them separate. He gives us an interesting insight to the procedures of the Secret Service. He also relives 9/11 and the Oklahoma bombing. He reveals what it was like working for the Clintons’ and being forced to testify against them. He relays his anger at President Clinton for lying and refusing to apologize to those who witnessed his Frat house behavior and suffered because of it. But what we learn with The Crisis of Character is that Monica Lewinsky was a minute part of the chaos the First Family and their staff caused in the White House…. Bryne includes bits and pieces of his life at first and once he gets past the Clintons and testifying he continues to share more about his personal and professional life.

The audio version of The Crisis of Character may be nine and half hours long, but you'll never notice because Actor Brian Troxell's narration is so natural it's like you're hearing it first hand. When you turn on The Crisis of a Character expect to hear the words of a man who’s ready to let go of a variety of burdens after so years.

Reviewed 2016
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