"You can’t keep a secret in Washington for very long. "
Oh yes you can.
Especially if you control the House and Senate, stack the Supreme Court with Conservative idealogues that are behind the party line, make all your political appointees pawns in your game, create a father land security, spy on your own citizens, fix elections and then classify everything else you don't want let loose under "national security".
Oh, and take ALL previous family histories and archive them where the public can't get at them, and then holler "treason" if anyone disagrees with you.
I'd think you'd pretty well have it all sown up, wouldn't you??