Loren is en fuego lately twitter.com/LorenRaeDeJ/st
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She asks a good question. H.R. Haldeman primarily and Kissinger secondarily killed a number of crazy orders in anger from by sitting on them until the President had time to cool off or a good nights sleep
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Both men worked very closely with Nixon and had sufficient authority to make the call that the President was “blowing off steam”. Often Nixon was grateful that his orders hadn’t been implemented. On other times, with some subjects though, he grew annoyed
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The problems began when Nixon found a way to end-run even the formidable and much feared (by the WH staff) Haldeman and enlist more reckless or ambitious characters like Colson, Dean and Liddy whose enthusiasms were poor substitutes for discretion
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It seems that Kelly’s first order of business as WH CoS for Trump was to begin getting rid of the clowns and impose some healthy fear in the senior staff. Clowns are funny until they do something reckless and dangerous out of misplaced zeal or a desire to create mischief
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