Editing Robert Reich (section)

===Resignation and memoir===
In 1996, between Clinton's re-election and second inauguration, Reich decided to leave the department to spend more time with his sons, then in their teen years.

By April 1997, he published his experiences working for the Clinton administration in ''Locked in the Cabinet''. Among those he criticized in the tell-all were Clinton advisor [[Dick Morris]], former AFL-CIO head [[Lane Kirkland]], and Federal Reserve Board chairman [[Alan Greenspan]], a leading deficit hawk whom he considered "the most powerful man in the world".<ref name=memoirreview>{{cite news|title=Inside the Beltway but Out of the Loop: Locked in the Cabinet by Robert B. Reich|last=Thomas|first=Evan|url=https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/books/98/09/13/specials/reich-cabinet.html|date=27 Apr 1997}}</ref> In the book, Reich criticizes the Democratic Party as "owned by" business and Washington as having two real political parties during his tenure: the "Save the Jobs" party, which wanted to maintain the status quo, and the "Let 'Em Drown" party.<ref name=memoirreview/>

After publication of the book, Reich received criticism for embellishing events with invented dialogue which did not match [[C-SPAN]] tapes or official transcripts of meetings.<ref name=memoir>{{cite news|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D0DE2DA173EF937A15751C0A96E958260 | work=The New York Times | title=Now! Read the True (More or Less) Story!; Publishers and Authors Debate the Boundaries Of Nonfiction | first=Doreen | last=Carvajal | date=February 24, 1998 | access-date=May 22, 2010}}</ref> The paperback release of the memoir revised or omitted the inventions. In one story, members of the [[National Association of Manufacturers]] (NAM) confronted Reich with curses and shouts of "Go back to Harvard!" In the revised version of the NAM story, Reich is instead hissed at.  The foreword to the paperback contained an explanation, in which Reich says that "memory is fallible".<ref name=memoir/>

The memoir has since been called "a classic of the pissed-off-secretary genre" by [[Glenn Thrush]].<ref>{{cite news|title=LOCKED IN THE CABINET: The worst job in Barack Obama's Washington|url=https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/locked-in-the-cabinet-099374/|date=Nov 2013|website=Politico|access-date=19 Jul 2022|last=Thrush|first=Glenn}}</ref>