Ronald Borek Kessler was born on Ronald Borek; December 31,1943 and is an American journalist and author of 21 non-fiction books about the White House, US Secret Service, FBI, and CIA.
19 Facts About Ronald Kessler
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Ronald Kessler's father was born in Hungary and his mother was born in Russia.
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Ronald Kessler attended Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts from 1962 to 1964 before embarking on a career in journalism.
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Ronald Kessler began his career in 1964 as a reporter with the Worcester Telegram, followed by three years as an investigative reporter and editorial writer with the Boston Herald.
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From 1970 to 1985, Ronald Kessler was an investigative reporter for The Washington Post.
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That Ronald Kessler series resulted in congressional passage in 1974 of the Real Estate Settlement Procedures Act, which outlaws kickbacks for referral of settlement services in connection with real estate closings.
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In 1979, Ronald Kessler won a second Polk Award, this one for National Reporting for a series of articles exposing corruption in the General Services Administration; he won even though his editor, Ben Bradlee, had not submitted his stories for consideration.
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Since leaving The Washington Post, Ronald Kessler has authored 21 nonfiction books on intelligence and current affairs.
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The behind-the-scenes anecdotes are delightful, but Ronald Kessler has a bigger point to make, one concerning why the under-appreciated Secret Service deserves better leadership.
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Ronald Kessler writes flatteringly and critically about people in both parties.
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Ronald Kessler got Trump to sit down for an interview on New Year's Eve at Mar-a-Lago, a conversation that shows the president confident and comfortable in his role.
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Ronald Kessler conveys Trump's world in coherent, readable fashion, and provides the players' assessments of one another.
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From 2006 to 2012, Ronald Kessler was chief Washington correspondent for Newsmax.
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On January 4,2010, Ronald Kessler wrote a Newsmax article revealing that the Secret Service allowed a third uninvited guest to attend President Obama's state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh besides party crashers Tareq and Michaele Salahi on November 24,2009.
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Shortly after the controversy broke, Ronald Kessler confirmed to Talking Points Memo that he attempted to remove information documenting it from his English Wikipedia biography.
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In "A Roadmap to Trump's Washington," Ronald Kessler described the carrot-and-stick approach Trump used to get his Mar-a-Lago estate approved as a club by Palm Beach Town Council members and predicted he would operate in the same manner as president to win over support for his agenda.
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In "The Anatomy of a Trump Decision," Ronald Kessler depicted how Trump makes decisions by focusing on his decision to turn his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach into a private club.
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Ronald Kessler's writings have been criticized in publications such as The Washington Post and The Week for overt partisanship and a lack of journalistic rigor.
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Too often, Ronald Kessler seems to have listened to his sources, written their words down, and then simply printed as fact their allegations or observations without checking on them.