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Soviet Foreign Ministers Would Come In To See The President All The Time, Routinely. Jimmy Carter Stopped That After The Invasion Of Afghanistan. Ronald Reagan Resumed It In 1984, I Think. And So The Fact Of A Meeting Like That I Think Is Not That Big A Deal.

I Think That Iran With A Nuclear Weapon Is Extremely Destabilizing. I Think It Could Precipitate A Nuclear Arms Race In The Region.

I Think Donald Trump Has Gotten China's Attention To A Degree That His Predecessors Have Not That This Is A Very Serious Matter For The United States.

One Of The Toughest Battles In Intelligence Is Combating Conventional Wisdom.

Congress Is Best Viewed From A Distance—the Farther The Better—because Up Close, It Is Truly Ugly. I Saw Most Of Congress As Uncivil, Incompetent At Fulfilling Their Basic Constitutional Responsibilities (such As Timely Appropriations), Micromanagerial, Parochial, Hypocritical, Egotistical, Thin-skinned And Prone To Put Self (and Re-election) Before Country.