National Security in Trump's White House
Dan Snow's History Hit
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I'll Come Tot the Vagaries of the Trumpetn Stra Pops
I was resolved to never not give the president the benefit of best advice and alternative perspectives. In doing so, it didn't make me maybe his favourite, but i really didn't care about that. It would have beendo service to him to join in what i saw initially as an environment of competitive sycophancy. I'm just not cut out to do it, first of all. The people who were hardest onthe characters in the story were the characters themselves,. So when the chief of naval operations said, maybe we were all weak. We should have stood up and pounded the table, but we didn’t do it, and he said, i'm ashamed of myself.
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