Particular course, but the sea will come, the wind will come, youll lose, ultimately youll move, ultimately, in a differentic direction. More prosaically, it comes from a period in my career when i was a fourstar admiral. I was finishing up down in u. S. Southern command, peter, and i was in charge of all military activity south of the United States. Andi i was very hopeful of going to the pacific next as the end of u. S. Pacific command which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. Gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So from the nato perspective i was at the dental admiral who became the supreme allied expired but the navy was an accident as well, one it, as a career . Guest somewhat. So, lets go way back. I grew up in a marine corps family. My father, george stavridis, proud colone
Mr. Buchanan im sure it there are some, like a joint chief and others, who have not written memoirs yet, but im not sure they are going to. In terms of written memoir, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and it knew it from the beginning. Brian what did you put in this book that you never talked about before . Mr. Buchanan the origins of the agnew speech, the memos on that. There were a number of notes in my files of that i dug out. There is a description of how i almost defected on the china trip, i was so unhappy with it. There is also the end of it, where you put in that quote by john osborne, he said he had seen shelley and me on Inauguration Day in 1969 and then he saw how it all ended, he was an old liberal curmudgeon and it breaks your heart. All of this is fresh and new. Most of the memorandum had never been published. What that is about is, what it was like as a young conservative in the nixon white house, trying to do battle for your beliefs, and the oppo
Mr. Buchanan im sure it there are some, like a joint chief and others, who have not written memoirs yet, but im not sure they are going to. In terms of written memoir, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and it knew it from the beginning. Brian what did you put in this book that you never talked about before . Mr. Buchanan the origins of the agnew speech, the memos on that. There were a number of notes in my files of that i dug out. There is a description of how i almost defected on the china trip, i was so unhappy with it. There is also the end of it, where you put in that quote by john osborne, he said he had seen shelley and me on Inauguration Day in 1969 and then he saw how it all ended, he was an old liberal curmudgeon and it breaks your heart. All of this is fresh and new. Most of the memorandum had never been published. What that is about is, what it was like as a young conservative in the nixon white house, trying to do battle for your beliefs, and the oppo
Mr. Buchanan im sure it there are some, like a joint chief and others, who have not written memoirs yet, but im not sure they are going to. In terms of written memoir, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and it knew it from the beginning. Brian what did you put in this book that you never talked about before . Mr. Buchanan the origins of the agnew speech, the memos on that. There were a number of notes in my files of that i dug out. There is a description of how i almost defected on the china trip, i was so unhappy with it. There is also the end of it, where you put in that quote by john osborne, he said he had seen shelley and me on Inauguration Day in 1969 and then he saw how it all ended, he was an old liberal curmudgeon and it breaks your heart. All of this is fresh and new. Most of the memorandum had never been published. What that is about is, what it was like as a young conservative in the nixon white house, trying to do battle for your beliefs, and the oppo
Ive been working on it. But no, its a good good question, and i sort of i was analyzing it the exact same way you were, which is, you know, breaking it up into how many calories per artichoke. Would i feel full at the end of the day if i ate an artichoke every hour . You know . And my kneejerk went to d, but then when i did the math, i didnt like it. So its a tough one. Im not sure i add much value, you know, unfortunately, on this one. Okay. We didnt come here to to not take chances. Oh, we didnt . Well, you know, do you remember hishis toast to me on Vail Mountain on the top of Vail Mountain was to living life and taking chances. Before my first kiss, and that worked out just fine. Yeah. What could possibly go wrong . Heres to living life and taking chances. Well take a. Okay. What do you think . I think well yeah, i can support a. What the heck, right . What the heck . Its like a 50 50, to me, but well, were gonna put our money down on a as our final answer. Oh, god. Well, the math