Antony Blinken
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Back then, 32 years ago, when I went to my office at the White House, or first at the State Department, then at the White House, I did what everyone else does, or did back then, is you got up in the morning, opened the front door of your apartment or your house, picked up a hard copy of the New York Times or the Washington Post or maybe the Wall Street Journal, and then if you had a TV in your office, if you had a TV in your office, you turned it on at 6.30 and you got the national network news.
Back then, 32 years ago, when I went to my office at the White House, or first at the State Department, then at the White House, I did what everyone else does, or did back then, is you got up in the morning, opened the front door of your apartment or your house, picked up a hard copy of the New York Times or the Washington Post or maybe the Wall Street Journal, and then if you had a TV in your office, if you had a TV in your office, you turned it on at 6.30 and you got the national network news.
Back then, 32 years ago, when I went to my office at the White House, or first at the State Department, then at the White House, I did what everyone else does, or did back then, is you got up in the morning, opened the front door of your apartment or your house, picked up a hard copy of the New York Times or the Washington Post or maybe the Wall Street Journal, and then if you had a TV in your office, if you had a TV in your office, you turned it on at 6.30 and you got the national network news.
Now, of course, we all have this intravenous feed of information, and we're getting new inputs every millisecond. And the pressure to simply react is more intense than it's ever been. And no one has the distance, the buffer, to really try to reflect and to think before you act. At least it's really much harder to do that. The speed with which things is happening is much harder.
Now, of course, we all have this intravenous feed of information, and we're getting new inputs every millisecond. And the pressure to simply react is more intense than it's ever been. And no one has the distance, the buffer, to really try to reflect and to think before you act. At least it's really much harder to do that. The speed with which things is happening is much harder.
Now, of course, we all have this intravenous feed of information, and we're getting new inputs every millisecond. And the pressure to simply react is more intense than it's ever been. And no one has the distance, the buffer, to really try to reflect and to think before you act. At least it's really much harder to do that. The speed with which things is happening is much harder.
The multiplicity, the complexity, the interconnectedness of challenges is greater than it's ever been. So I keep joking about this, but my friend Tom Friedman wrote a column a few months ago that I love because it said, parents, don't let your sons and daughters grow up to be Secretary of State.
The multiplicity, the complexity, the interconnectedness of challenges is greater than it's ever been. So I keep joking about this, but my friend Tom Friedman wrote a column a few months ago that I love because it said, parents, don't let your sons and daughters grow up to be Secretary of State.
The multiplicity, the complexity, the interconnectedness of challenges is greater than it's ever been. So I keep joking about this, but my friend Tom Friedman wrote a column a few months ago that I love because it said, parents, don't let your sons and daughters grow up to be Secretary of State.
David, here's what I saw. And you're right. I've worked with the president for more than 20 years. And it's really been the greatest privilege of my professional career, starting in the Senate, then as vice president, and then as president. And do we all change as we get older? Yeah, absolutely. When you get to a certain age, are you likely to slow down a little bit? Of course.
David, here's what I saw. And you're right. I've worked with the president for more than 20 years. And it's really been the greatest privilege of my professional career, starting in the Senate, then as vice president, and then as president. And do we all change as we get older? Yeah, absolutely. When you get to a certain age, are you likely to slow down a little bit? Of course.
David, here's what I saw. And you're right. I've worked with the president for more than 20 years. And it's really been the greatest privilege of my professional career, starting in the Senate, then as vice president, and then as president. And do we all change as we get older? Yeah, absolutely. When you get to a certain age, are you likely to slow down a little bit? Of course.
And this is the God's truth, because I was in the Oval Office and the Situation Room and everywhere else in between with him for four years. Whether you agree or not, whether you like or not, I can tell you that every decision that was made, every policy that was pursued, reflected his judgment and his decision. It's not like someone else was doing it.
And this is the God's truth, because I was in the Oval Office and the Situation Room and everywhere else in between with him for four years. Whether you agree or not, whether you like or not, I can tell you that every decision that was made, every policy that was pursued, reflected his judgment and his decision. It's not like someone else was doing it.
And this is the God's truth, because I was in the Oval Office and the Situation Room and everywhere else in between with him for four years. Whether you agree or not, whether you like or not, I can tell you that every decision that was made, every policy that was pursued, reflected his judgment and his decision. It's not like someone else was doing it.