The Confessions of Congressman X: A disturbing and shockingly frank tell-all of vanity, greed and deceit
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The Confessions of Congressman X - Congressman X
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FOREWORD: WHO IS CONGRESSMAN X?
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I first met Congressman X at a dinner party in Washington, but I won’t reveal the year, as it would narrow down his identity. For reasons I shall explain, X wishes to forever remain anonymous.
At the time of our encounter and until 2007, I was the editor of Hideaway Report, a luxury travel newsletter I founded in 1979 under the nom de plume Andrew Harper. Respected for its candid and authentic reviews of intimate worldwide hotels and resorts, the publication has been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Forbes, National Geographic Traveler, and more.
Most of my readers were celebrities, CEOs, and presidents of companies seeking peaceful and unspoiled places far from the madding crowd. A dozen members of Congress were also subscribers, including affable Congressman X. We instantly hit it off because of his love of travel and because I was a political junkie, having been the chief of staff and press secretary for two House members in the 1970s.
We eventually became friends and confidants and met once or twice a year, usually when I stopped in Washington for an overnight following one of my exploratory trips around the world. I would share with him my travel adventures and hotel discoveries, and he would reciprocate with the latest Capitol Hill insider information. We felt very much at ease with each other and knew our conversations would never go further than the restaurant booth where we sat. As the years passed, our talks became darker as X shared his remarkably frank observations of Congress. Many of his revelations were unsettling to me, and I began jotting them down from memory immediately after our get-togethers. I thought he might want to publish them in a tell-all book after he left Congress.
We continued to see each other after I retired. It was on one of those occasions that I told him about my notes and gave him a copy. He was initially outraged and felt I had betrayed his confidences and our friendship. I assured him I never discussed our conversations with anyone and would never do so without his consent. This seemed to please him, though he refused to talk to me for eight months.
One day, out of the blue, he phoned and said he wanted to see me about a