Biden needs to jettison his pandemic team and start afresh

But simply bringing in new faces won’t be enough, as the president could learn by consulting “Battlegrounds,” the memoir of retired Army lieutenant general and former national security adviser H.R. McMaster. It was McMaster’s 1997 classic study of the Vietnam War, “Dereliction of Duty,” that I found instructive about the “credibility gap,” and this book, toward the end, offers excellent insights into how to rebuild damaged trust.