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Aloha and namaste everyone and welcome to Impolitic with John Heilman, a puck and Odyssey joint featuring lively, in-depth conversations with the people who cruised the corridors

of power in America, sculpting and shaping the ebb and flow of our politics and culture.

Two years ago or so, I was having lunch with my pal Josh Steiner, who had gained

some notoriety and not the right kind of notoriety three decades earlier when, as the 20-something

chief of staff to Treasury Secretary Lloyd Benson in Bill Clinton's first term in the White House,

he'd become embroiled in the Whitewater

Bruhaha due to some politically embarrassing things that he'd written in his personal diary

about Clinton, George Stephanopoulos, and a variety of other senior White House officials.

In the context of the systemic large-scale corruption and gargantuan ongoing grift and graft

taking place in Donald Trump's administration,

Whitewater gives new meaning to the term penny ante, and Josh's diary was but a mere pimple on the so-called

scandal's ass. But at that time, it was all that anyone could talk about in Washington, especially

when Steiner was hauled up to Capitol Hill and compelled

to testify before the House and Senate banking committees about his diary on national TV.

Now, over lunch, Josh was telling me that all these years later, he was endeavoring to write a book,

not about his 15 minutes of infamy, but about the broader topic of mistakes. How and why

we make them, what they tell us about ourselves, what we can learn from them, and how that can

help us to avoid making more of them in the future, and most intriguingly to me, the extent to which

they can haunt us for years and even decades after we've made them.

The impulse we all have to live in denial about them and why confronting them is so much more helpful and healthy than suppressing them.

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