Boehner At Work On A Memoir: ‘Notes From A Smoke-Filled Room’

WASHINGTON, DC OCTOBER 29: Outgoing Speaker John Boehner pounds the gavel for the final time as speaker of the house following his resignation speech in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, October, 29,... WASHINGTON, DC OCTOBER 29: Outgoing Speaker John Boehner pounds the gavel for the final time as speaker of the house following his resignation speech in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday, October, 29, 2015, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post via Getty Images) MORE LESS
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Former Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-OH) is working on writing a memoir about his decades in Washington, Politico reported.

The book is tentatively titled “Notes From a Smoke-Filled Room.”

“I get the question every day: What was the proudest accomplishment of your time in Congress? And I think it’s that I walked out of there in October 2015 as pretty much the same jackass I was when I walked in almost 25 years earlier. I walked out of there with no regrets … and a hell of a lot of good stories,” Boehner told Politico in a statement.

“I’ve never really been interested in doing your typical political-memoir kind of book. And this won’t be that kind of book,” Boehner continued Monday. “This is going to be a book people might want to actually read, no matter where they’re coming from politically, or where they’re coming from in life.”

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  1. Shouldn’t that be “A Smock-Filled Room”?

  2. What kind of smoke?

    The answer to that will make a BIG difference in what comes out of the word processor.

  3. Avatar for tao tao says:

    Boehner? Boehner? Oh yeah, that was the guy who gave us Ryan and made Ohio a disaster area.

  4. More like… Notes From The Tobacco Company’s Pocket.

  5. The book draft was done by hand on a legal pad and is stained with Merlot and tears.

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