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The Gatekeepers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 386

The Gatekeepers

"The first in-depth, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions--and inactions--have defined the course of our country. Since George Washington, presidents have depended on the advice of key confidants. But it wasn't until the twentieth century that the White House chief of staff became the second most powerful job in government. Unelected and unconfirmed, the chief serves at the whim of the president, hired and fired by him alone. He is the president's closest adviser and the person he depends on to execute his agenda. He decides who gets to see the president, negotiates with Congress, and--most crucially--enjoys unparalleled access to the leader of the free wo...

The Fight of His Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

The Fight of His Life

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes a revelatory, insider’s look at how President Joe Biden and his team have battled to achieve their agenda—based on the author’s extraordinary access to the White House during two years of crises at home and abroad. In January of 2021, the Biden administration inherited the most daunting array of challenges since FDR’s presidency: a lethal pandemic, a plummeting economy, an unresolved twenty-year war, and the aftermath of an attack on the Capitol that polarized the country. Waves of crises followed, including the fallout from a divisive Supreme Court, raging inflation, and Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukr...

The Fight of His Life
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 432

The Fight of His Life

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gatekeepers comes a revelatory, insider’s look at how President Joe Biden and his team have battled to achieve their agenda—based on the author’s extraordinary access to the White House during two years of crises at home and abroad. In January of 2021, the Biden administration inherited the most daunting array of challenges since FDR’s presidency: a lethal pandemic, a plummeting economy, an unresolved twenty-year war, and the aftermath of an attack on the Capitol that polarized the country. Waves of crises followed, including the fallout from a divisive Supreme Court, raging inflation, and Vladimir Putin’s unprovoked invasion of Ukr...

The Gatekeepers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 418

The Gatekeepers

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-03-06
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  • Publisher: Crown

Now with a chapter on the chaos in the Trump administration, the New York Times bestselling, behind-the-scenes look at the White House Chiefs of Staff, whose actions—and inactions—have defined the course of our country. What do Dick Cheney and Rahm Emanuel have in common? Aside from polarizing personalities, both served as chief of staff to the president of the United States—as did Donald Rumsfeld, Leon Panetta, and a relative handful of others. The chiefs of staff, often referred to as "the gatekeepers," wield tremendous power in Washington and beyond; they decide who is allowed to see the president, negotiate with Congress to push POTUS's agenda, and—most crucially—enjoy unparall...

The Spymasters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 416

The Spymasters

"Only eleven men and one woman are alive today who have made the life-and-death decisions that come with running the world's most powerful and influential intelligence service. With unprecedented, deep access to nearly all these individuals plus several of their predecessors, Chris Whipple tells the story of an agency that answers to the United States president alone, but whose activities--spying, espionage, and covert action--take place on every continent. At pivotal moments, the CIA acts as a brake on rogue presidents, starting in the mid-seventies with DCI Richard Helms's refusal to conceal Richard Nixon's criminality and continuing to the present as the actions of a CIA whistleblower hav...

That's Not My Name
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 19

That's Not My Name

Join a group of precocious kindergarteners as they navigate the world of bullying through the power of God's love and His word! They show us that God has named us all, and that we are to call each other by those names, instead of the myriad of other less than desirable things we refer to each other. Isaiah 49:1 Romans 15:7

Summary of Chris Whipple's The Gatekeepers
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 42

Summary of Chris Whipple's The Gatekeepers

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Richard Nixon was elected president in 1968, and he knew that the presidency was a splendid misery; however, he needed help. He hired Sherman Adams, a former New Hampshire governor, as his first chief of staff. #2 Nixon was determined to control his own fate, and he wanted to exact revenge on his enemies. He summoned an important visitor: J. Edgar Hoover, the long-serving FBI director. Hoover told Nixon that Johnson had ordered the FBI to wiretap Nixon during the campaign. #3 H. R. Bob Haldeman and Richard M. Nixon were an odd couple, bound by politics and expedience, yet worlds apart socially. Haldeman was a Los Angeles royalty figure, while Nixon belonged to another, rarefied world. #4 The president’s time is his most valuable asset. Nixon’s staff system, which was designed by Haldeman, was a model and template of White House governance that every subsequent administration would follow.

De Minimis Risk
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 215

De Minimis Risk

On May 29 and 30, 1985, a workshop was held to explore the legal, ethical, social, scientific, and practical aspects of the use of the de minimis risk concept for health and safety regulation. The workshop was sponsored by the Society for Risk Analysis and its National Capital Area Chapter, the Environmental Protection Agency, the Nuclear Reg ulatory Commission, and the Electric Power Research Institute. The two-day meeting was held in Washington, D. C. , at the Brookings Institution; however, the Brookings Institution was not a sponsor of the meeting and did not playa role in its program. De minimis risk policy considerations were addressed from a theoretical and phil osophical viewpoint, f...

Cleveland's Colorful Characters
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 273

Cleveland's Colorful Characters

"Cleveland's Colorful Characters" is an easy to read, insightful book on some of Cleveland's most influential individuals. These individuals helped create the grand and unique city which at one time was one of the most respected cities in the word. The first chapter is on the Mather family and how they helped create many of Cleveland's world class institutions. On a lighter side they were the first documented individuals to throw a 'toga party'. The 2nd chapter provides insights into the Van Sweringens who built many of Cleveland's finest homes and buildings as well as being the largest railroad owners in the country. Through the author's research he was able to determine they were the bases...

Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

Medical Isotope Production Without Highly Enriched Uranium

This book is the product of a congressionally mandated study to examine the feasibility of eliminating the use of highly enriched uranium (HEU2) in reactor fuel, reactor targets, and medical isotope production facilities. The book focuses primarily on the use of HEU for the production of the medical isotope molybdenum-99 (Mo-99), whose decay product, technetium-99m3 (Tc-99m), is used in the majority of medical diagnostic imaging procedures in the United States, and secondarily on the use of HEU for research and test reactor fuel. The supply of Mo-99 in the U.S. is likely to be unreliable until newer production sources come online. The reliability of the current supply system is an important medical isotope concern; this book concludes that achieving a cost difference of less than 10 percent in facilities that will need to convert from HEU- to LEU-based Mo-99 production is much less important than is reliability of supply.