![]() ![]() ![]() And you can figure that the Hill will offer Taiwan any weapons system they want to buy next go-round. Congress would impeach you if you asked for it, Jack. There was amusement around the coffee table at that one.Īnd that's the problem, Adler reminded them all. ![]() He still had more work of his own to do in China. Ellen he called loudly enough to get through the door. The President knows, because he's the President, right? Then I become President, and I don't know a damned thing more than I knew the month before, but everybody out there-Ryan waved his arm at the window-thinks I'm fucking omniscient. So, I translated the battle with the Helvetii and slept that night. But I still had to translate half a page of Caesar's goddamned Gallic Wars, and I saw the President on TV, and I figured things were okay, because he was the President of the United Goddamned States, and he-had to know what was really going on. I remember wondering if the world was going to blow up. Robby, back when I was in high school, I remember the Cuban Missile Crisis. There are some limitations on that power, but we don't fully understand what they are, and therefore it's hard for us to enforce or to exploit them. They're kings because they have absolute power. It was already very different from ours long before Marxism arrived, and the thoughts of our old friend Karl only made things worse. Look, these guys are kings from a different culture. We have a bunch of good people, but the problem is in getting them all to agree on something when we need an important call. That's the fundamental problem dealing with them-ĭo they? Robby Jackson asked, just before Arnie van Damm could. ![]() But do they see things in the same way that we do? No, they do not. Sir, that's not a question with an easy answer. And she headed back to the secretaries' room, closing the curved door behind her. Nothing new from SORGE today? van Damm asked. Okay, I am not omniscient, and I'm not perfect, POTUS admitted crossly after the second puff. Ryan took one out, along with the pink butane lighter stashed inside. She fished in her pocket and pulled out a fliptop box of Virginia Slims. ![]()
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