THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED A WHITE HOUSE MEMOIR
JOHN BOLTON
THE ROOM WHERE IT HAPPENED INTRO :
One attraction of being National Security Advisor is the sheer
multiplicity and volume of challenges that confront you. If you don’t like
turmoil, uncertainty, and risk—all while being constantly overwhelmed
with information, decisions to be made, and the sheer amount of work, and
enlivened by international and domestic personality and ego conflicts
beyond description—try something else.
It is exhilarating, but it is nearly
impossible to explain to outsiders how the pieces fit together, which they
often don’t in any coherent way.
I cannot offer a comprehensive theory of the Trump Administration’s
transformation because none is possible.
Washington’s conventional
wisdom on Trump’s trajectory, however, is wrong. This received truth,
attractive to the intellectually lazy, is that Trump was always bizarre, but
in his first fifteen months, uncertain in his new place, and held in check by
an “axis of adults,” he hesitated to act. As time passed, however,
Trump
became more certain of himself, the axis of adults departed, things fell
apart, and Trump was surrounded only by “yes men.”
Pieces of this hypothesis are true, but the overall picture is simplistic.
The axis of adults in many respects caused enduring problems not because
they successfully managed Trump, as the High-Minded (an apt description
I picked up from the French for those who see themselves as our moral
betters) have it, but because they did precisely the opposite..................................
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