Let me put up this next memo.

You want me to read this?

Yes please.

All generalizations are false, including this one. 

There it is.

Rumsfeld’s to buy Watergate with reputation intact.

Possible vice presidential running mate with President Ford.

Questions about Rumsfeld or whether he is too ambitious playing second fiddle to Reagan.

___________1_____________and criticized and said, oh my goodness, ________2_______ and we need to understand how we got to where we are. Who do we want to provide leadership in the world, somebody else?

When Shakespeare wrote history, __________3_________, jealousies, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Maybe Shakespeare got it wrong.

Maybe he had it right.

Governor Reagan decided to have George Bush to be Vice President.

It seems to me if that decision had gone a slightly different way, you would have been future President to the United States.

That’s possible.

How do you think that they got away with 9/11?

It seems amazing in retrospect.

Everything seems amazing in retrospect.

Stuff happens. Free people are free to make mistakes and commit crimes and do bad things. They’re also free to live their lives and do wonderful things.

You have to pick and choose. Well, to the extent you pick and choose and you’re wrong, the penalty can be enormous.

Subject unknown knowns. That is to say things that you think you know that it turns out you did not.