Sublime

Introduced to a party of people who ignore their own chauffeur, he protests: “I have not met this gentleman

In 2010, civil rights legend and Democratic congressman John Lewis claimed that he was berated by racial slurs—including the big one—as he entered Congress. Andrew got footage from several different angles that showed nothing of the kind. Further, he found that congressman Jesse Jackson Jr. was himself filming the entrance.

In effect, the president, quite aware of his and his staff’s inexperience in drafting legislation (in fact, nobody on his senior staff had any experience at all), decided to outsource his agenda—and to a heretofore archenemy. Watching Ryan steal the legislative initiative during the transition,