Serious Fun with White House Secrets: And State Department Antics

This is a warm-hearted hilarious book about the wife of the spokesman for the Secretary of State during the 80's. This diary of Virginia Hunter tells of pitfalls and pratfalls she gets herself into and usually quite by chance. Most of the situations are not her fault, but make the Washington headlines the following day. The reader sees Washington society and politics from the eyes of a woman with a master's degree in acting and directing and a professional author and critic. Unfortunately, and to the delight of the reader, she is a master at taking missteps at every turn which end up reverberating through Washington gossip channels. This high profile woman is an entertainment all by herself. But reading the book also brings insights into the hard core political world of a Secretary of State who was a victim of an assassination attempt. It was foiled of course by our loveable heroine Ginny Hunter. The reader is also treated to a portion of a play that Ginny wrote that of course, was not without a few missteps as well. You must read it to find out what happened.

Ginny Hunter's Antrics!!!!! The Antics that have been captured in WHITE HOUSE SECRETS have been quoted by Mr. Bud Grant, the former President of CBS Entertainment and CBS Theatrical Division, "Washington as seen through the brilliant eyes of Libby Hughes: "it's funny,it's serious, it has it all." Those words capture the entire book. When writing "it's funny," Mr Grant was right on as I almost had a serious accident when I fell out of my chair with laughter when reading pages 88-90, when Ginny Hunter, while leaning over viewing the dead body of a political official, a soldier goose,stepping around the casket, caught Ginny's legs and flipped her into the casket with the lid slamming shut with her and dead body inside. The entire book is filled with Ginny's klutzy antics. A must for readers of any age. Don Thomas, former Jeweler to the stars.