No Way To Treat a First Lady by Christopher Buckley

Author:Christopher Buckley [Buckley, Christopher]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-58836-257-5
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2002-10-09T16:00:00+00:00

On Hard Gavel, Alan Crudman’s jealousy over Boyce’s masterful handling of the case had caused him to evolve into a public second-guesser for the prosecution. It was something of a career reversal for a man who had once boasted that he could have gotten Adolf Hitler acquitted.

In the middle of last night’s show, he had gotten carried away in his fever to demonstrate that Agents Whepson and Birnam could not possibly have put on latex gloves, grabbed the spittoon, embossed the presidential forehead, removed the gloves, and replaced the spittoon between 7:33:00 A.M. and 7:33:37 on September 29, while Beth was in the bathroom barfing. Crudman leapt out of his chair to reenact the scenario, lapel microphone still attached, yanking his mike out of its socket and upsetting a water glass.

Perri’s attitude toward Boyce had become openly antagonistic. Boyce had stopped coming home on weekends. She couldn’t even wheedle anything out of his team as to what was going on behind the scenes. When they did speak, she was unable to get anything out of him. He didn’t respond to her cooey little nudgings. His conversation consisted of, “Uh-huh, uh-huh. Listen, gotta go.” It was all a bit … much. Hadn’t Perri nursed him back to emotional health after his disastrous fourth divorce from the socialite mountain climber—what’s more, at a time when she should have been concentrating on her own career?

With her producers, she pretended that Boyce was keeping her fed with tidbits. Meanwhile, as she discussed the case on television every night for a larger and larger audience, Perri had become consumed with what, for her, was the larger question of the Trial of the Millennium: Were Boyce and Beth doing it?

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