this incident at walker's point when a freak storm destroyed his mildly ancestral home in kennebunkport was almost a kind of portent of what was to come. the chapter itself then describes what was going on at the white house around the same time, things like the soon-to-happen departure of john sununu as chief of staff -- all the trouble he had gotten in over the course of 1991 for having flown on military craft to new york and having gone to stamp auctions in his limo -- and a general sense that things were starting to go wrong after the overpowering atmosphere of victory that had been present at the time of the desert storm parade, which is the freeze-frame that precedes it. c-span: did this woman like john sununu? >> guest: she did, very much, and a lot of people did. the book has a very layered portrait of the white house staff, particularly of john sununu and richard darman, the director of the office of management and budget, neither of whom i expect will like the book but, in fact, says they were both extraordinarily competent, knew what they were doing but that they represented