We should have embraced a high level of openness and forthrightness, in addition to that, and then the expectations wouldn't have gotten so out of whack, and we wouldn't have been in the problem we were -- we came to later when the president's credibility just started really falling, because we weren't open and forthright.
McClellan reflects on the need for transparency to maintain the president's credibility.
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