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The White House Situation Room is arguably
the most important facility in the most important building in the
world. As the president's intelligence and alert center, it
provides vital communication and crisis management capabilities to
the chief executive and his advisers. It can also be “an island of
calm,” as a top adviser for Vice President Al Gore once described
it. So little is known about the Situation Room that, until the
publication of NERVE CENTER, the American public’s knowledge of it
is almost entirely based on its portrayal by the entertainment
industry. Yet, as Michael K. Bohn points out, Hollywood has failed
to capture the real drama of the Situation Room. Numerous crises
come alive in NERVE CENTER, from the Vietnam War (when President
Johnson made late night visits to the Situation Room wearing his
pajamas and went so often that he moved his Oval Office chair
there), to the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan,
to today’s high-tech war on terrorism. Created in the aftermath of
the Bay of Pigs fiasco by advisers to President John Kennedy,
presidents, cabinet members, and National Security Council staff
members have all come to depend on the Situation Room. “I knew that
I could always rely on the Situation Room,” President Jimmy Carter
recalled, “and it never let me down.” |
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| ISBN-10: 1574884387 ISBN-13: 9781574884388 |
Hardback - March 2003 |
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