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comment by kleinbl00
kleinbl00  ·  1317 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Past Presidents can still get the top secret PDB (President's Daily Briefing)

It's worth pointing out that George H Bush went from being a representative to being ambassador to the UN to being chairman of the RNC to being ambassador to China to being the Director of Central Intelligence to being the Vice President to being the President. He was head spook during Operation Condor and the guy on whose watch the Shah fell.

There's been a real drive to effeminate the guy but he landed on a carrier 128 times and propped up Pinochet. I'll bet he read the PDBs avidly.