“[E]ven after his two terms were over, when left-wing news sources sourly continued to portray his administration solely in terms of its faults, as nothing but a big deficit and the Iran-Contra scandal, I cannot remember Reagan ever ‘defending his legacy’ with anything more than a quip and a smile. Compare and contrast Clinton… ‘And you got that little smirk on your face and you think you’re so clever,’ Clinton told [Fox News’ Chris] Wallace, sounding for all the world like a 6-year-old girl scolding her playground rival. He then proceeded to try to rewrite his coulda-woulda-shoulda presidency by claiming to have had a much more focused and hard-lined approach to terrorism than any reading of his administration can support. Even Clinton counter-terrorism chief Richard Clarke’s book — which Clinton cited repeatedly during his tantrum — shows the president as too weak to order Osama bin Laden’s death. Other accounts are much less favorable” –novelist Andrew Klavan, writing in the Los Angeles Times.