by Robert Reich:'An acquaintance from my days in the Clinton administration,

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10. There's this:

Electronic magazines have gleefully picked apart the claims of memoir writers, most notably the political confessional of former Labor Secretary Robert B. Reich, who described dramatic episodes and dialogue that did not match the record of C-Span tapes and transcripts of Washington meetings.

For his paperback version of his book, ''Locked in the Cabinet,'' Mr. Reich made revisions, explaining in a foreword that ''memory is fallible.'' As a result, the paperback no longer recalls a tense, smoky meeting with members of the National Association of Manufacturers who confronted him with curses and shouts of ''Go back to Harvard!'' Instead, he hears hisses from several locations.

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/02/24/books/now-read-true-more-less-story-publishers-authors-debate-boundaries-nonfiction.html