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In his 1984 memoir Caveat, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig complained that during the early days of the Reagan administration the nation's TV networks, newsmagazines, and top newspapers "let themselves be converted into . . . bulletin boards" for the White House.
Johnson, a British journalist, finds a certain grim justice in that.
For 20 years, American presidents...