Herskowitz held many meetings with the then-Texas Governor George W. Bush in preparation for an upcoming project, and soon struck a deal with Bush in 1999 about a ghost-written autobiography, a book which was eventually titled A Charge to Keep : My Journey to the White House.
Herskowitz once said of his former employer: "He thought of himself as a superior, more modern politician than his father and [the elder Bush's close adviser and friend] Jim Baker.