Sworn to Serve, No Matter Whom
Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience With Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate, by Gary J. Byrne, New York, New York: Center Street/Hachette Book Group, 2016, 285 pages, hardcover.
Among the myriad of strange creatures that one finds in the realm of ancient Greek mythology, one of the most grotesque and fearsome is the being known as a Harpy. Harpies were, according to the Oxford Classical Dictionary, “supernatural winged beings … who ‘snatch’, as the name [in Greek] implies, and carry off various persons and things.” Webster’s New World Dictionary is more comprehensive in its description when it says that Harpies are “any of several hideous, filthy, rapacious winged monsters with the head and trunk of a woman and the tail, legs, and talons of a bird.”
The Harpies of the ancient Greeks are, needless to say, wholly fictional. They do not exist and have never existed. However, in modern usage, a Harpy is defined as someone either extremely ill-tempered and unpleasant or unendingly greedy and grasping — or in the worst cases, a composite of all of these attributes. That such individuals most certainly have existed and do exist is proven, some say, by a certain former first lady, whose personality and character are explored in Gary J. Byrne’s
fascinating book Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience With Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate.
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