Unlike Donald Trump, Bill Clinton, Dick Cheney, Dan Quayle and George W Bush, he put himself in harm’s way. Yet Kerry is a case of true self-sacrifice.
Tellingly, in a Doonesbury comic strip inked in the early 1970s, Kerry thinks to himself, “You’re really clicking tonight, you gorgeous preppy.” Garry Trudeau, Doonesbury’s creator, attended the same prep school and college. If this sounds a bit cloying, it is – even to Kerry’s social peers. To top it off, as a young man Kerry attended Yale and sailed with President John F Kennedy. He reminisces over a childhood spent at a Swiss boarding school, summering on Naushon Island, just off Cape Cod, and an adolescence parked at St Paul’s, a New England boarding school that also counts Robert Mueller, the special counsel, among its alumni. Kerry denies the accusation, but adds: “But I did believe that if you said you were going to do something, it was important to follow through.”īorn privileged if not rich, Kerry spares little in describing his personal Arcadia. For his pushback, Kerry earned a rebuke from Denis McDonough, Obama’s fifth chief of staff.Īccording to Kerry, McDonough shot back: “If you’re saying the president looks weak, I take umbrage at that.” Still, he provides essential accounts of his time as a truly heroic but wrongly maligned Swift boat officer, and as the secretary of state who was the prime mover of the Iran deal and the Paris climate accord.Īn early Obama supporter and the son of a diplomat, Kerry nonetheless makes clear he did not see eye-to-eye with his former boss on the abandonment of Obama’s self- imposed red line in Syria. Kerry’s prose is detailed but not vivid, sounding more like a transcribed diary than a personal tell-all. Like the ex-senator himself, Every Day is Extra is informed, informative and at times overly self-indulgent.
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