Analysis | How a White House aide’s notes became a road map for Mueller
Interpretation of the news based on evidence, including data, as well as anticipating how events might unfold based on past events.Annie Donaldson, who served as chief of staff to White House counsel Donald McGahn, emerges in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's report as one of the most important narrators of
. Her daily habit of documenting conversations and meetings provided the special counsel’s office with its version of the Nixon White House tapes: a contemporary account of the president’s actions, albeit in sentence fragments and concise descriptions.
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