During the 1992 presidential campaign, President Bush's secretary, Patty Presock, discovered the diary that Bush had kept during the Iran-Contra scandal. Special prosecutor Lawrence Walsh had requested the diary years earlier, but it had mysteriously disappeared. After Presock found the document in a White House safe, Bush told her to forget about it, saying that it was irrelevant to the case. Presock disagreed and pressured him to turn it over. Eventually--after Bush lost the election--he did turn the diary over, and it suggested that he knew much more about the arms-for-hostages deal than he had admitted. The coda: Presock did something unthinkable for a presidential secretary. After Bush's defeat, she stayed on in the Clinton White House. "I couldn't have been any more surprised than if Barbara Bush had taken a job," said a former Bush aide.