He said to me with all these investigations going on, I'm going to let you handle all

the scandal stuff and I'm going to handle policy.

Doug Soznik is best known as a top advisor to President Bill Clinton.

He was Clinton's White House Director of Political Affairs.

Clinton once introduced him to Boris Yeltsin as the finest political mind in the world.

It was in Moscow right before State dinner when they had a line and, you know, for those

of you who hear about a State dinner around the world, they sound quite glamorous.

They're actually deadly.

He was a key aid in the White House during one of the biggest political scandals in history.

So that's how I was introduced to the Clinton White House.

And as I always tell people, that was a really good way to meet people because everybody

in the White House was affected by scandal.

He spent 15 years as a Chief of Staff in Congress, and four decades being in and around

campaigns.

I have the experience of actually having done all this.

In recent years, he graduated to the role of Democratic Party wise man, and I actually have

more kind of air to breathe when I'm not back in the mushroom of day-to-day campaigns.

He's known for these deep-dive political memos.

We featured them in Playbook for years.

They've attained a cult like following among strategists in Washington.

And his latest is about the center of political power.

It's in the suburbs.

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