One on Friday

breakthecitysky:

I keep wiggling at it, this memory, like a loose tooth or a hole where the tooth used to be, turning it over in my head.  The fall of ‘98, working in the White House Press Office during what was an extraordinary difficult time.  I was there during the last days of McCurry before Joe Lockhardt took over. McCurry would talk later about staying out of senior staff meetings where conversations were being held about That Intern, what happened, how to respond.  He kept himself out of the room so he could stand at that podium and honestly answer “I don’t know” if asked.

I remember the last day, the little cramped hallway before the door from the West Wing that goes out to the OEOB.  I remember the advice freely given that I’d carry with me through the next two decades of comms and public affairs work: At the end of the day, all you have is your credibility.  Your integrity.  Your name. If you sell that, if you give it away, if at the end of the day you have nothing. Hold onto it, even when it’s hard.

What’s good, Sarah Huckabee Sanders?