Words Matter Library: ‘How to Get Rid of a President' by David Priess

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Riley Fessler

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4.6 • 2.9K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2018

⏱️ 13 minutes

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This week we add "How to Get Rid of a President" by David Priess to the Audible Words Matter Library. A former CIA officer and presidential briefer, Priess tells the history of the political dark arts in action. In the nation's highest office we see election dramas, impeachments, assassinations, natural death in office, mixed with party intrigue, personal betrayal, and backroom deal making. An essential Audible title for any political junkie in the Age of Trump. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/words-matter. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Words Matter Library.
0:09.9	I'm so excited to have with us today, David Priests, who is going to talk about his new
0:15.4	book, How to Get Rid of a President, History's Guide to Removing Unpopular, Unable or Unfit
0:21.9	Chief Executives.
0:22.9	Thanks so much for being with us, David.
0:24.8	It's great to be here.
0:25.8	I just wish I would have written a book that was relevant to our times.
0:29.3	Well, David, you have such a fascinating background and we're right there at the middle
0:35.8	of political turmoil during your years at the CIA.
0:40.9	Talk about that background a little bit so that our listeners understand how unique
0:45.7	your perspective is.
0:47.0	Sure.
0:48.0	The most dramatic incident when I was there was, of course, 9-11 and that changed everything
0:53.0	in the intelligence world.
0:54.8	And I was working counterterrorism before 9-11 and, of course, after.
0:58.2	But I translated that into the briefing job where I took the President's daily brief
1:02.9	downtown every day to my customers as we called them in the Intel business, who were John
1:07.6	Ashcroff, the Attorney General, and the FBI Director, a guy named Bob Mueller, no one's
1:11.7	heard of him since.
1:12.7	Oh, and it's not even news at all these days.
1:14.6	Yeah, so that job is, it's the tip of the spear when it comes to intelligence.
1:18.8	Why do you collect all this information?
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