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Wednesday was laid back from the beginning, but we were all up at our normal time. Without the trip to Washington we had an unrushed big homemade breakfast. I was not going to Washington for the rest of the week; … Continue reading →

When I left, Harry was in the middle of his normal daily news conference. I walked to the door, stood out of sight and listened to the questions. He was holding his own so I left. There were no media … Continue reading →

After lunch I had a private meeting with four Senators, arranged by the White House, in the White House private dining area. It was a business over lunch meeting. Two Senators were from the judiciary committee and two from the … Continue reading →

Tuesday morning just three Suburban’s made the trip to Washington. To put it plainly, we were short on people. With the men and ladies moving towards the PAC countries and the OPS team drafted as trainers, there were simply not … Continue reading →

Marcy was busy on the phone, her clerks just as busy. I decided to stay out of the way. I went to my office and opened the State Department’s fancy world search Google program that I knew they paid a … Continue reading →

Monday I spent two hours on VCATS with Prime Minister Cordeiro and then another hour with Biff and Ed. Things were coming along nicely with the Portugal security arrangement. With the Pact firmly situated and the addition of two more … Continue reading →

Everyone had Thursday off except for the critical people needed to run the airport and command center. Even those were working split shifts. Thursday morning we went out in the boats, Jake’s and Dad’s. We had not bought a boat … Continue reading →

The helicopter ride seemed to take forever, even thought it was only forty minutes. I called the girls to fill them in and to tell them I would be on the news again. I turned the swivel seat around to … Continue reading →

They had been waiting inside the barn for all the occupants to exit the vehicles to become easy targets. When the SUVs started backing away they opened fire, filling the occupants and the engines with rounds. The engines died and … Continue reading →

Wednesday morning early, we were at Morton eating breakfast. We had just finished when the crew moved the helicopter to the apron and were waiting for me and the few security going with me. At 0730 the helicopter landed at … Continue reading →