“If you want to do it now,” Priebus continued, “Pence is prepared to step up, and Condi Rice will come in as his VP.”
“Priebus urged Graham to build a relationship with Trump. One of the selling points, he told Graham: “You’re a lot of fun. He needs fun people around him.”
― Fear: Trump in the White House
― Fear: Trump in the White House
“Sean,” Mattis finally said, “I’ve killed people for a living. If you call me again, I’m going to fucking send you to Afghanistan. Are we clear?”
― Fear: Trump in the White House
― Fear: Trump in the White House
“From October 17 to 19, 2017, the U.S. Air Force ran an elaborate series of simulated air strikes in the Missouri Ozarks. The region has a similar topography to North Korea.”
― Fear: Trump in the White House
― Fear: Trump in the White House
“The governing principle of PARC was that the place existed to give their employer that ten-year head start on the future. They even contrived a shorthand phrase to explain the concept. The Alto, they said, was a time machine. Thacker”
― Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
― Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
“It seems clear that many of the president’s senior advisers, especially those in the national security realm, are extremely concerned with his erratic nature, his relative ignorance, his inability to learn, as well as what they consider his dangerous views.”
― Fear: Trump in the White House
― Fear: Trump in the White House
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