Oh, well, then i am preaching to the choir. I was going to tell you, i was looking at the Pulitzer Prize winners announced and there are five books nominated or that won Pulitzer Prizes. I was talking to frank reese, our partner in this, and i understand you know frank, we only have three of those five to show. And one of those was poetry and we dont do a whole lot of poetry. I told him we better do better this next year and get all five. Chris whipple is no stranger to awards. He is a filmmaker, writer, journalist. He started his career in washington d. C. With richard hol brook at Foreign Policy magazine. A correspondent for life magazine and the thing i am very envious of is 20 years at 60 minutes and at abc news and won multiple emmy and pea body awards. He won a columbia du pont journalism award. He is the executive producer of programs like spy faster, the cia, and the cross hairs. And the the gatekeepers how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency which lefthand
Oh, well, then i am preaching to the choir. I was going to tell you, i was looking at the Pulitzer Prize winners announced and there are five books nominated or that won Pulitzer Prizes. I was talking to frank reese, our partner in this, and i understand you know frank, we only have three of those five to show. And one of those was poetry and we dont do a whole lot of poetry. I told him we better do better this next year and get all five. Chris whipple is no stranger to awards. He is a filmmaker, writer, journalist. He started his career in washington d. C. With richard hol brook at Foreign Policy magazine. A correspondent for life magazine and the thing i am very envious of is 20 years at 60 minutes and at abc news and won multiple emmy and pea body awards. He won a columbia du pont journalism award. He is the executive producer of programs like spy faster, the cia, and the cross hairs. And the the gatekeepers how the white house chiefs of staff define every presidency which lefthand
change, gun rights, gay rights, auto bailout. what was the impact everybody talks about scooter libby. what was the impact of bush firing in 2006 after the election, firing one of cheney s best friends. rumsfield. right before the war starts in march of 2003 president bush is told you can go in early, have this early strike, get saddam hussein. he kicks everybody else out of the room and it s just him and the vice president. that s who he wants to talk to at the very end. by the end of 2006 he decided to replace don rumsfield, contacted bob gates about it without talking to dick cheney. i sktd vice president cheney about it for the book he said by time it got to me that decision was done. a real evolution in the way decisions were made. what s the single revelation that you think most disspells the caricatures. what s the single thing about
to consult him. he was not involved in the china trips. so i think it s been a graduate buildup of centralized control in the white house, where presidents like to be able to exert control. how does that face off against the articles in newsweek and the new york times about the team of rivals, and the tension within the administration and top advisers about his foreign policy moves of the past year or two, especially the ones that have taken lives? you mean things like libya or the afghanistan surge or what are you referring to? the drone strikes, killing osama bin laden. the kill list meetings and leaking it no the new york times. i think there are clearly disagreements with the security team. i don t know it s between and among cabinet secretaries. in fact, people tell me there s remarkably little interdepartmental squabbling and feuding with the departments, and they really get along. there s nothing like the tension between colin powell and don