TRUTH – Review by Susan Granger
James Vanderbilt’s Truth examines the scandal that erupted after CBS Nightly News anchor Dan Rather ran a “60 Minutes” segment asserting that President George W. Bush used family connections to avoid combat in Vietnam and never fulfilled his tenure in the Texas Air National Guard. If this report had not been subsequently discredited, it might have tipped the 2004 Presidential election to Democrat John Kerry. Yet – as of now – basic questions still have not been answered: how did George W. Bush, who was not a pilot, get into the Guard and why was he excused from duty on the base to which he was assigned?
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