Aaron David Miller
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716 appearances
16 recordings
3 series
first heard Oct 2025
last heard 12 Jun
Aaron David Miller’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And that is Secretary of State, National Security Advisor, happened to be the same person.
Unless the chairman of the Joint Chiefs is not there to recommend policy to tell the president what to do.
But unless you make it unmistakably clear that the enemy has a vote.
And that in this case, geography is destiny.
It's the absence of curiosity, Dave.
That's the real issue.
So I'm sitting at my desk in the early 80s, and the phone rings.
It's a White House sit room.
I'm the State Department's Lebanon analyst.
We're in the middle of a major deployment of American Marines to Lebanon.
Next voice I hear is Vice President George H.W.
Bush.
I read one of your memos on Lebanon.
Do you have a few minutes?
I know you're busy.
Can we talk about it?
So the Vice President of the United States is calling me because I wrote a memo that he read?
Jack Kennedy used to call the Vietnam analysts at State Department when he wanted another view, another opinion.
That doesn't exist here.
His advisors, president's advisors, are scared of him.
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