471 - Poppy, Part 1 (11/12/20)

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🗓️ 22 November 2020

⏱️ 98 minutes

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For the 57th anniversary of the JFK assassination, we're unlocking the first installment of our George H.W. Bush series. The first part of our in-depth look into the life and career of George H.W. Bush. Covering the many generations of Bush family history in the United States, his father’s business dealings with Nazi Germany, H.W.’s military career and education at Yale, and the intricate web of intelligence, finance, and industrial interests surrounding him that all point to one day: November 22, 1963.

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0:00.0	Can I tell you a little story?
0:02.4	Please.
0:02.9	When I came here, one journalist said,
0:05.7	anybody dumb enough to accept the job is too dumb to do it.
0:09.7	He got a great laugh from people.
0:11.3	Because it's kind of a funny line.
0:12.7	Let's face it.
0:13.8	But God, I said to myself, how sad for our country
0:19.3	when we're facing some tough, tough opposition in this world
0:24.6	to take such a cynical view of intelligence in the 1976 time.
0:35.2	I, you know, he got his laugh, and I got my little herd
0:38.9	inside from it.
0:39.8	But it made me determine that I'm going to approach this job
0:44.0	with pride, and they can have all the jokes they want
0:47.3	on television about the CIA.
0:49.1	It's vital to the national security of the United States.
0:52.9	And I feel so dedicated and strongly about it
0:55.7	that I just wanted to wedge that in.
0:57.8	Apropos, no question you've had.
1:00.5	How long are you going to stay?
1:02.7	I serve at the pleasure of the president.
1:04.3	I understand that.
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