Susan Page is the Washington bureau chief of USA TODAY. She is the author of Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power (2021) and The Matriarch: Barbara Bush and the Making of an American Dynasty (2019), both New York Times best-sellers. Her new book, The Rulebreaker: The Life and Times of Barbara Walters, will be published by Simon & Schuster on April 23, 2024.