Dick Cheney isn't haunted by bad choices, at least not his own. The same goes for George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Jimmy Carter. Even Richard Nixon was hard pressed to find ways he screwed up.
How do we know? Their memoirs â?? including Cheney's new one â?? say so. But when it comes to books by men who lived in the White House (and the guy in the previous sentence who acted like he did), one president's memoirs stand apart because of their humility. In fact, many historians consider the Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant to be the best of the bunch.
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