The Cruz family vacation gets off to a rough start when dad gives an hour-long speech objecting to the rum in his daiquiri as invalid.
Other patrons inch away as @SenTedCruz loudly demands the beachside bartender mix him a Green New Deal. "It's frozen and causes you to black out!" he exclaims, looking around for appreciative laughs. #CruzFamilyVacation
Sailing ends quickly when Cruz denounces any attempt to tack to port as an outrageous lurch toward socialism. #CruzFamilyVacation#CruzToCancun
While dad is at the pool, other family members rifle through his briefcase. "There must be something we can use against this scumbag," one mutters. #CruzToCancun#CruzFamilyVacation
He wouldn't be the first to follow along that path. Eric Goldman was seen as Dad's successor as WH professor-in-residence; @JeffShesol joined Clinton's staff after his book on RFK & LBJ caught the president's eye.
Meacham would also follow an even richer history of former journalists writing for presidents. Raymond Moley wrote for FDR even as he edited the magazine that became Newsweek (which Meacham himself later led). 2/
FDR's call for "bold persistent experimentation" came from a reporter's writing a speech for him in 1932 basically on a dare. 3/