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Truth And Duty: The Press, The President, And The Privilege Of Power
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Mary Mapes
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A riveting account of how the publics right to know is being attacked by an unholy alliance among politicians, news organizations and corporate America
Truth and Duty was made into the 2015 film Truth, starring Cate Blanchett, Robert Redford, Topher Grace and Elizabeth Moss.
For twenty five years, Mary Mapes has been an award-winning television producer and reporter the last fifteen of them for CBS News, principally for the CBS Evening News with Dan Rather and 60 Minutes. She had the bedrock of respect of her peers in 2003 alone, she broke the story of the Abu Ghraib prison tortures (which won CBS The Peabody Award) and the existence of Strom Thurmonds illegitimate bi-racial daughter Essie Mae Washington.
But it was Dan Rathers lightning rod of a story on George W. Bushs National Guard Service that brought Mapes into an unwanted limelight. The firestorm that followed the broadcast led not only to Mapes firing and Rathers stepping down from his anchor chair a year early, but to an unprecedented internal inquiry into the story chaired by former Reagan Attorney General Richard Thornburgh.
Peopled with an historic and colorful cast of charactersfrom Karl Rove to Summer Redstone to John Kerry to Col. Bobby Hodges this groundbreaking book about how the television news is made (and unmade) made headlines itself when first published. But this, it turns out, is only part of the story. Mapes talks for the first time about the riveting behind-the-scenes action at CBS during this frenzied period and exposes some of the largest political and social controversies that have broken in this new age of dissonance.

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There are many people to thank for the book you now hold in your hands. First and foremost, my husband, Mark Wrolstad, who proved to be a talented and demanding first editor. He made everything I wrote better. And there was never a cross word spoken between us. Seriously. No, really.

Many days as I wrote, my son, Robert, sat beside me in my office, listening to music or watching movies, wearing a headset, so we could be close even if we couldnt converse. Every now and then we would hold hands. He may not be a mamas boy, but I am hopelessly a boys mama.

My editor at St. Martins Press, Elizabeth Beier, cracked the whip in as friendly a fashion as possible, making sure we met our deadlines without killing each other or the project. I dont know what I expected from a print editor, but I certainly didnt expect to find a friend. Luckily, I did. We probably had far too much fun working on this than we should ever admit. My lips are sealed.

The people at St. Martins Press treated me like family from the first. I think the world of them, anyway. Sally Richardson, George Witte, Paul Sleven, John Murphyall of them brought such skill and exuberance to this book. Amelie Littell, Bill Rees, and Julie Gutin worked brilliantly as managing editors on this unmanageable project. Steve Sniders work as art director was smart and savvy. James Sinclairs handling of the interior design gave my words gravitas. And Karen Gillis,the overworked production director, is the real reason this book made it to print. Her perseverance was more than I could have hoped for.

Mike Smith, the Texas-based researcher who worked with me on the original Bush-Guard story, luckily came back to help me with this book, bringing with him his savant sensibilities for digging up information. He has been true blue to this story and to me far longer than I deserve.

Speaking of true blue, friends dont come any truer than Dan Rather. He has my respect and affection always. Working with him made me a better journalist. Knowing him has made me a better person.

My friend and colleague Roger Charles has always been available to answer any question, whether it is about the military, the best way to raise kids, or how to keep your marriage on the right path. Hes a great friend.

My agent, Wes Neff at Leigh Bureau, convinced me I could do a book and then convinced me someone outside my family would be interested in buying it. The fact that you are reading this proves he was right.

Ellis Levine, the attorney for St. Martins Press who went through this manuscript with me, line by line, deserves some kind of special reward for his hard work. Im thinking of a trip to Atlantic City.

Dick Hibey, who represented me in front of the CBS/Viacom panel, was kind to me when that was what I needed and willing to give me a swift kick when that was called for.

Wahid Manawi, our Afghan surrogate son, helped me more than he will ever know. His very presence reminds me of how lucky we are that fate is in control of our futures. Who would have thought wed be together from Kabul to college graduation?

Angie Hudson, our wonderful friend, kept our house running smoothly when I disappeared into my office for weeks at a time. She deserves a medal and some less demanding friends.

My buddies Lisa Cohen, Micki Flowers, Margaret Larson, along with former colleague and forever friend, Dana Robertson, kept me laughing and sitting upright through most of the past year. I would have been lost without them, their phone calls, their funny stories, and our all-girl getaways.

Veteran CBS correspondent Bob McNamara was a great friend throughout this whole mess. He kept me looking on the bright side. The fact that Bobs nickname at CBS was Black Mac, in honor of his well-deserved reputation as a grump, tells you all you need to know about how blue I was and how bad this experience was. Bob and his wife, Jane, made this past year better.

A hundred friends, colleagues, neighbors, and family members supported and helped me in a hundred ways. Extra special thanks to Sue and Patty. I will never forget your kindnesses.

My four sisters are in the pages of this book, whether the reader can see them or not. Gloria, Diane, Frances, and Peggy talked with me during this process, encouraging me, editing me, pushing me to create something that would make my mother proud. I hope Mom is proud. I hope I made my sisters proud, too.

Finally, no acknowledgment would be complete without a wag of the tail to my four-legged friends who were with me nonstop as I went through a tough year, and then painstakingly recreated it, pecking at the keyboard and replaying in my head some of the worst months of my life. Honey, my mothers old golden lab; Scout, our wild Westie terrier; and Mattie, our dark-eyed little Scottie, were at my feet every day. Forever patient, always friendly, ever forgivingI couldnt have done it without them.

A fundamental problem with the claim that the Killian memos were not authentic was that the critics never saw the best copies of the documents. The reproductions of the memos examined online by bloggers and experts around the country had been faxedsometimes more than onceas well as photocopied, scanned, and downloaded. Each process has the potential to change the proportions of the printed material, the details of the font style, and the clarity of the image. Faxing, in particular, can radically alter a documents appearance.

The following two versions of the same document have undergone more changes to fit into this book, but make the point. The copy on the left has not been faxed. The one on the right has. As a result, they almost appear to be different documents.

Please dont make the mistake of trying to examine these images to draw conclusions about the documents authenticity. Document examiners doing formal analyses work with the physical document, not an electronic image and certainly not something reprinted in a book.

For more documents and primary material, go to www.truthandduty.com .

This is an explanation of the techniques I used to compare the Killian memos to - photo 2

This is an explanation of the techniques I used to compare the Killian memos to - photo 3

This is an explanation of the techniques I used to compare the Killian memos to the official Bush records that had been made public over the years. Before we aired our story on September 8, 2004, I had essentially tried to marry the Killian documents with the official record. I was looking for anything that didnt fit: dates, names, references to rank, and a variety of other factors. I was looking for a stopper, a place where the Killian memos clashed with the official record, something that would indicate to me that the new memos werent real.

I couldnt find it. I wanted the panel to know that far from simply taking documents and rushing them onto the air, we had done a complicated and multifaceted check on how these new documents fit with the ones we knew to be real, and used that comparison in making a judgment that the story was ready to air.

The documents referred to in the meshing document are available at www.truthandduty.com .

Dear Governor Thornburgh and Mr. Boccardi,

During our discussions, I presented a compilation labeled TAB 57 and explained why the information revealed by meshing the Killian memos with the official Guard documents was so important in establishing the reliability of the documents.

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