Lanny Davis served as special counsel to President Bill Clinton. In 1999 he published Truth to Tell, subtitled Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself.
His publisher summed up the lesson: “you can always make a bad story better by telling it early, telling it all, and telling it yourself.” In an open letter to Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Davis warned against waiting for the facts to “dribble out, drip by drip.”