Tyranny of the in box. One of my jobs was to represent the secretary of defense, working through the issues, developing options for the principals and the president. A lot of Crisis Management focus. When youre in a think tank, your whole utility is not trying to secondguess the policymaker on the issues of the day but help to do some work to raise their days, help them look over the horizon to see what are those issues im going to confront a year from now, five years from now, ten years from now, and how do i think more strategically about americas role in the world . Former secretary of defense and cofounder for the center of national security, Michelle Flournoy on its creation of defense policy issues. Sunday night on cspans q a. 40 years ago, the watergate scandal led to the only impeachment of an american president. American history tv visits Richard Nixon as it considers impeachment of the president and the charge of abuse of power. What you have here are questions about what the