To the Wall Street Journal: White House staff.... interactions with the president, reporters, etc.  AND WSJ " Mueller Report Describes a Businessman President Indifferent to Facts, Unwilling to Take on Tough Tasks...." by HL

I am very disappointed in your coverage of the Trump White House and the  Mueller report .  Unfortunately for the American public ,what goes in the Trump administration is very close to normal in the White House for most administrations.

Under Pres. Eisenhower I was the recipient of a very strong tongue lashing concerning a  reputed”  How to surrender the United States report”. Some journalist had asked Pres. Eisenhower about this  report. Eisenhower responded in fury that no such report ever will be tolerated by his administration. He then directed an intensive search for this report and vowed that he would severely punish anyone involved. Basically, we shut down the intelligence and defense analytic communities and made a file cabinet by file cabinet search. In fact, the report was actually a RAND report that detailed   the strategic surrender of Germany after World War II.   No one ever confronted  Eisenhower with the truth. And as a junior officer, I was selected to be the representative to tell the president that we had responded to his orders and that all had been taken care of in terms of his wishes

Under Pres. Johnson, there would be a weekly  lunch with his State Department and Defense Department secretaries. Agreements were reached but they never were transmitted to subordinates.  And  there was no follow-up mechanism to determine whether the orders had been transmitted and/or whether or not they had been complied with. The staff was rife with rumors including who was sleeping with whom. Gen. Powell has discussed  some of this in his book: “my American journey."

Under Pres. Nixon there were repeated  direct orders to fire  Joseph Laitin. Joe survived well serving at the directorship level in the Office of Management and Budget,  the secretarial level at the Department of the treasury; the secretarial level at the Department of Defense; the Federal Aviation Administration : etc.

My first  point is that administrative insiders could write a volume that equals that composed  for Donald Trump on every administration that I am familiar with including Kennedy, Johnson, both  Bushes, etc.

My  second point is that the Mueller report is a prosecutors  maximum brief. It has selected from a wide assortment of  untested grand jury testimony, emails, etc. much of it secondhand and hearsay.  None of it was subjected to cross-examination and/or conflicting evidence. What should have been  color coded in the report  was the contributions to the report made by each of  the various members of the Mueller staff.[See:The Man Investigating Donald Trump’s Russia Connections Is Assembling a Murderer’s Row of Prosecutors . They include men and women responsible for bringing down Nixon and Enron, BY JACK MOORE June 7, 2017]  For example Andrew Wisemann has a history of overcharging and of suppressing exculpatory evidence. He was publicly admonished by the courts for doing this. Yet he was a key contributor to this report.  His friends were a source of reporting of dissatisfaction with the Atty. Gen.’s  released overview of the  Mueller report , feeding the press and the Democratic Party with the assertion that the Atty. Gen.’s report was a cover-up.