Bill Barr: One Damn Thing After Another

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Jack Carr

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 92 minutes

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Summary

Today’s guest is only the second person in history to ever hold the office of U.S. Attorney General twice.

Bill Barr served as the 77th Attorney General for President George H.W. Bush and the 85th Attorney General for President Donald Trump. His storied law career has taken him from the CIA and the Reagan White House to the Justice Department to General Counsel of major corporations like GTE and Verizon. He recently released his No. 1 New York Times best-selling memoir, One Damn Thing After Another: Memoirs of an Attorney General.

The book includes a lifetime of lessons from Barr’s childhood through Iran Contra, Pan Am 103 and the LA riots, and takes an unfiltered look at his time serving in the Trump Administration through Russiagate and the Mueller investigation, COVID, civil unrest, election results, and January 6, 2021.

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0:00.0	This is The Danger Close Podcast, beyond the books of me, Jack Cawr.
0:17.2	Welcome to The Danger Close Podcast, an Iron Cloud original presented by Navy Federal
0:21.2	Credit Union.
0:22.2	It is my honor today to welcome Attorney General Bill Barr to the podcast.
0:26.9	His new book, One Damn Thing, After Another, is Out Now.
0:30.7	And if you're interested in his relationship with President Trump with the results of
0:35.0	the 2020 election, you will certainly find his take on all of that in these pages.
0:40.0	But there's a lot more to Bill Barr than just those two years in the Trump administration.
0:44.0	From his earliest days, he takes us through high school, through college, working for the
0:48.2	CIA, sitting next to then director of the CIA, George H. W. Bush during Senate and House
0:55.2	Committee hearings on the CIA in the 70s into the Reagan administration, then into
0:59.9	the George H. W. Bush administration as Attorney General.
1:03.3	Well, he dealt with everything from Pan Amplight 103 to the invasion of Panama to the Gulf
1:10.0	War, savings and loan crisis, Iran Contra, LA riots, and the Talladega prison hostage situation.
1:17.9	He then went into private practice and then came back to serve in the Trump administration
1:22.0	for two years as Attorney General.
1:24.0	And I want to read something here about the title.
1:26.8	So One Damn Thing After Another, where does that come from?
1:30.2	I'm going to read this right here to kick things off.
1:35.4	For 40 years, successive Attorney General have heard the story.
1:39.8	After President Ronald Reagan nominated him in 1980 to serve as Attorney General of the
1:44.2	United States, William French Smith, preparing for his new duties, talked to Ed Levi, who
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