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Paid Partnership Former White House official Steve Atkiss joins Michael Smerconish to explain the extraordinary security measures surrounding President Donald Trump’s departure from Turkey — including why the president was secretly moved away from the aircraft normally used as Air Force One.
Atkiss served in the George W. Bush White House and helped coordinate presidential travel, Secret Service, military and national-security operations on hundreds of trips. He explains how presidents are protected when credible threats emerge, why deception and multiple aircraft can be valuable security tools, and whether keeping the traveling press in the dark was justified.
Atkiss also shares remarkable firsthand stories from George W. Bush’s secret 2003 Thanksgiving trip to Baghdad, the Trump-Kim Jong Un summit in Singapore, and a presidential trip to Georgia where a grenade was thrown toward President Bush.
Life event that changes all: Horse riding accident in Zimbabwe in 1993, a fractured skull et al including bipolar anxiety, chronic fatigue …. co-morbidities (Nietzche 'He who has the reason why can deal with any how' details my health history from 1993 to date). 17th 2017 August operation for breast cancer (no indications just an appointment came from BreastCheck through the Post). Trinity College Dublin Business Economics and Social Studies (but no degree) 1997-2003; UCD 1997/1998 night classes) essays, projects, writings. Trinity Horizon Programme 1997/98 (Centre for Women Studies Trinity College Dublin/St. Patrick's Foundation (Professor McKeon) EU Horizon funded: research study of 15 women (I was one of this group and it became the cornerstone of my journey to now 2017) over 9 mth period diagnosed with depression and their reintegration into society, with special emphasis on work, arts, further education; Notes from time at Trinity Horizon Project 1997/98; Articles written for Irishhealth.com 2003/2004; St Patricks Foundation monthly lecture notes for a specific period in time; Selection of Poetry including poems written by people I know; Quotations 1998-2017; other writings mainly with theme of social justice under the heading Citizen Journalism Ireland. Letters written to friends about life in Zimbabwe; Family history including Michael Comyn KC, my grandfather, my grandmother's family, the O'Donnellan ffrench Blake-Forsters; Moral wrong: An acrimonious divorce but the real injustice was the Catholic Church granting an annulment – you can read it and make your own judgment, I have mine. Topics I have written about include annual Brain Awareness week, Mashonaland Irish Associataion in Zimbabwe, Suicide (a life sentence to those left behind); Nostalgia: Tara Hill, Co. Meath.
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