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...spent four days in Iraq. Did you leave Baghdad? [It was] all in Baghdad--except one of our members, Chuck Robb, the former Virginia Senator, went to Anbar. We got a pretty darn good feel just by spending time in Baghdad. Pretty soon, we're going to have to start thinking about what our report is going to say. Then we're going to present it to the President and the Congress on the same day, and we'll turn it loose publicly right after we give it to them...
...level posts--Secretary of State, Treasury Secretary and White House chief of staff. Which job was best? I often say, "Boy, was I lucky to be Secretary of State in that period of time." Communism collapsed. The cold war ended. All of our lives changed. Everybody in the world--except for North Korea, Cuba and maybe a few others--wanted to get close to the U.S. Our relationships with the rest of the world were very, very good...
That sentiment is as true now as it was more than two centuries ago when Lessing wrote it. Except now the very survival of our civilization may depend...
...WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN? Florida Congressman Mark Foley resigns after the emergence of inappropriate e-mails and instant messages to teenage House pages. The media engage in rounds of oh-no-we-can't-watch-but-we-must-watch. Most feel bad for his young targets--except journos with new books out, who, pushed from the spotlight, just feel bad for themselves...
Bubbles are great until they break. I've personally never been an investor, really. It's never been what I've done, except for investing in whole companies. With very few exceptions, the only stock that I've owned has been our Citigroup stock for the past 20 years...