Jonna Mendez

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404 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard yesterday

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The Moth · Puppets, Pastors & Secret Agents: The Moth Radio Hour · 22 Sep 2026 podcast

Thank you.

So I was standing in a hallway outside of the Oval Office in Washington, D.C.

I was standing there with six men I didn't know.

I was chief of disguise at the time at the CIA, and I was wearing a disguise, but they had no idea.

It was slow because the meeting in the Oval was going long.

We were gonna go in and brief President George H.W.

Bush

and we were kind of stuck for a few minutes.

Then finally the doors opened, and we went in, and the president is sitting in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk with these wonderful windows behind him.

He's backlit.

And there was a semicircle of chairs in front of that desk.

There were six chairs.

And I went to the one that I already knew where to be.

I had to step very carefully across the presidential seal in the carpeting, and I didn't want to step on it.

Took my seat.

Everybody else took their seat.

And I went first.

This was the president's morning briefing.

I was going to give the first speak, and then I was going to be the first one to leave.

I was wearing the first animated full face mask that my disguise office had produced.

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