Susan Page is the Washington bureau chief of USA Today, where she has worked since 1995. She has covered six White House administrations and ten presidential elections, has interviewed the past nine presidents, and has reported from six continents. Page is the author of The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty, a New York Times best-selling book. She’s working on a biography of Nancy Pelosi titled Madam Speaker, to be published by Twelve. A former president of the White House Correspondents Association and the Gridiron Club, she has received all three journalism prizes given for White House coverage.
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