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My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

The President’s Book of Secrets: Interview with David Priess

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

Bruce Carlson

News, History, Politics

4.61.2K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2017

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Presidents and Intelligence, from Kennedy to Trump. With a particular focus on the PDB or the Presidents Daily Briefing with Dr. David Priess, the Author of The President’s Book of Secrets. We discuss: Tension Presidents and The CIA, In History and Today How Kennedy’s Pace Dictated How Agencies Work What the President’s Daily Brief Does Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower received daily intelligence but it wasn't

0:36.7

personalized to them and that's where John Kennedy comes in.

0:42.1

Let's talk about the current president.

0:44.2

It has really brought the P. D. B. into light.

0:47.7

The mythology in my mind was that Reagan wasn't much of a reader at all,

0:52.8

certainly not of top secret intelligence.

0:55.2

But three things in my research lead me to reassess that

0:58.9

and debunk that idea.

1:00.8

You know, there's some worry that perhaps like a president could greatly disrupt the

1:07.1

intelligence agency so far from the norm. If this president or a future president

1:12.4

wants his daily intelligence record in the form of tweets,

1:17.0

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