21/04/2026 02:36

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Traditionally, the job of FEMA director was given to a political supporter of the President who wanted some plum position but who had had no experience with emergencies. Immigration was also a big issue at both meetings. We had now protected more land in the lower forty-eight states than any administration since that of Theodore Roosevelt. There was enough of it to feed the three planeloads of weary travelers all night.

One of President Bush’s boosters, Charlie Black, invited the press to watch a new TV ad attacking me on the draft. After the beating we’d taken during my first two years, they thought the Republicans should have to endure at least a year of their own medicine. officials also began to train sixty Pakistani troops as commandos to go into Afghanistan to get bin Laden. In an effort to capitalize on the shift in momentum, I sent Tony Lake and Undersecretary of State Peter Tarnoff