Byline: Carl M. Cannon
When Secretary of Education William Bennett announced his resignation from the Cabinet Monday, he told President Reagan he was going to do some lecturing and write a book.
"Not that kind of book," Bennett swiftly assured a startled Reagan. "A book about education."
The President is not being paranoid. The harsh fact is that those closest to him have left a legacy of "kiss-and-tell books" unprecedented in American history.
These books by supposedly loyal aides tend to portray Reagan as a dottering old fool with little idea what's going on in his own administration and Nancy Reagan as coldhearted, superstitious and a control freak. Reagan has expressed anger, but he's not the only one who wonders how fair this is or how this precedent can possibly be good for the nation.
"People used to come to Washington for public service. Now they come for greed," said Michele Davis, executive …
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