David PriessOvjeren akaunt

@DavidPriess

Chief Operating Officer, . Visiting Fellow . Former CIA. Duke PhD. Writing books & speaking about presidents, intel & national security.

In orbit around Washington, DC
Vrijeme pridruživanja: svibanj 2014.

Medijski sadržaj

  1. "I believe that the president has learned from this case.... The president has been impeached—that's a pretty big lesson." — Sen. Susan Collins

  2. OTD 1911: Birth of Ronald Reagan: - Only POTUS born, raised, and educated in Illinois - Only president between Eisenhower and Clinton to serve two full terms - As POTUS, read the President’s Daily Brief more carefully than commonly thought - Wore the tan suit damn well

  3. 6. velj
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    And our acting president would’ve been Crazy Ben Wade:

  4. 6. velj

    OTD 1993: Jim Woolsey sworn in as Director of Central Intelligence. He told me he couldn’t recall a single time during his two year tenure when President Clinton, the secretary of state, or the secretary of defense called him to talk about an item in the President’s Daily Brief.

  5. 5. velj

    OTD 1978: First day as CIA deputy director for Frank Carlucci, in the Carter administration— Carlucci told me Carter was such a conscientious reader of the President’s Daily Brief that he would correct spelling errors that had made it through the CIA’s rigorous editing process!

  6. 5. velj
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    “It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.” — Maurice Switzer

  8. 4. velj

    Just leaving this here

  9. 4. velj

    Amazing insight this afternoon from into the roots of African American Islam, its complex relationship with global trends in Islamic thought, and W. D. Mohammed’s pluralistic and nonviolent legacy—in a conversation moderated by

  10. 4. velj

    Happy 73rd Birthday to the 44th vice president of the United States, Dan Quayle: — The fifth of a striking SIX vice presidents from Indiana (Mike Pence is the sixth) — The country’s most recent one-term VP (Al Gore replaced him just over 27 years ago)

  11. 4. velj

    “I’m not competing in Iowa, for a reason.” — Jon Huntsman, 2011

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    “I have learned the difference between a cactus and a caucus. On a cactus, the pricks are on the outside.” — Mo Udall

  14. 3. velj

    OTD 1973: The first day in CIA history without Richard Helms, whose last day as an employee was the day before—when he left the Director of Central Intelligence job. He served in that role under two of the Agency’s most challenging presidents, Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon:

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    Well, how about Senator Murkowski!

  17. 31. sij

    A wise man once said, “It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”

  18. 31. sij

    “The president’s conduct is a national embarrassment.... All he has to do is give us a day of honesty, to come out and say this is what happened.” — Lamar Alexander, speaking about President Bill Clinton in 1998

  19. 30. sij

    “Truth never damages a cause that is just.” — Mahatma Gandhi

  20. 30. sij
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