Tom Galloway Archives - James Strauss

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Three, Chapter XXXVIII

My time at night, before sleep and thankfully not during sleep, I thought about things that were occurring, and the less sense they made the more I couldn’t stop lying awake trying not to think about them. “I’m not that special,” I thought, lying there, not realizing...

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Three, Chapter XIV

by James Strauss | 47 comments

My wife told me that I had to let the incident between Gates and me go, or I might potentially ruin everything. My argument against that was simply one of trying to live in a state of helplessness. Following Vietnam, I was being made to feel like an important man by...

THE COWARDLY LION, Volume Two, Chapter IX

by James Strauss | 32 comments

The driver of the Lincoln limo was a man I didn’t recognize from the compound, but then I wasn’t surprised. I circulated among but knew very few of the men and women who constantly flowed in, through and around the Western White House and its grounds. I was so low on...