READ MY LIPS - Tapa dura

A treasury of things politicians wish they had never said.

Since the dawn of hist- ory every statesman has been torn between a wish to say something memorable and a terror of saying something which is remembered...they want to sound significant while not giving hostages to fortune...but, as this salutary and hugely funny book proves, all to often fortune has found them out. Read My Lips...so called after the phrase coined by George Bush when promising 'no new taxes'... contains the very best (or worst) verbal gaffes and the most embarassing moments ever uttered by politicians and leaders of every kind and persuasion.