Good secrets, bad book
I've usually got the television on in the background while I'm working, and if it's not the tv, it's the radio. Today was the television, and I found on the History Channel, an entire series on the US Presidents (they covered all the Presidents in a 20-30 years span in each hour), so that was great. The series ran from Washington to FDRoosevelt. Then, in the evening, there was an hour on Air Force One (specifically, President Bush's trip to Africa). But what I was really interested in was the two-hour The President's Book of Secrets. I have to learn to not fall victim to television hype. If they'd pitched the show as "Security Secrets of the White House", I would have been just as interested in the program, and not nearly so disappointed. But what we got was "Is there a secret book, passed from President to President, with all these incredible secrets known only to the Presidents and maybe a few others?", and then every story was simply about security and such, things that aren't nearly so hush-hush secret, and that would have no place in such as secret book, if it existed. The interviews were impressive (Vice President Quayle, President Ford's daughter Susan, Former Homeland Security Security Michael Chertoff, Former Speaker Newt Gingrich, and more), but the attempt to tie everything in to this mystical book just made it that much less enjoyable.