Charles Grapski
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“The candidate would blame her staff for failing to contain the damage, and, privately, they would fault her for failing to take the steps necessary to do that.”
― Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
― Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
“In the summer of 2008, years before her private e-mail server became a campaign issue, Hillary learned about the power of digital snooping. At the time, she was conducting an autopsy of her failed bid against Barack Obama, and she wanted an honest accounting of what had gone wrong. So she instructed a trusted aide to access the campaign’s server and download the messages sent and received by top staffers.”
― Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
― Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
“Nationalist Arab countries concluded that the United States would continue to back Israel, while the Soviet Union did not. So immediately after the Suez War, Syria signed a military agreement with the Soviet Union. The Soviets began shipping planes and tanks to Syria. Their alliance survived the collapse of the Soviet Union and continues with Russia today.”
― Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
― Inside Syria: The Backstory of Their Civil War and What the World Can Expect
“Laks, A., and C. Louguet, eds. 2002. Qu’est-ce que la philosophie présocratique? / What Is Presocratic Philosophy? Lille: Presses Universitaires de Septentrion.”
― The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece
― The Beginnings of Philosophy in Greece
“All of the jockeying might have been all right, but for a root problem that confounded everyone on the campaign and outside it. Hillary had been running for president for almost a decade and still didn’t really have a rationale.”
― Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
― Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign
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