Jonna Mendez

that my disguise office had produced, and I was going to brief the president wearing it, and he had no idea.

I took him pictures of himself when he had been head of CIA.

Oh, he had a mustache.

He had some different glasses.

It was a small disguise.

I said, we've gotten much better since you left.

He said, like what?

I said, I'm going to take it off and show you.

He said, wait, wait, not yet.

And he said, okay, take it off.

And I did the Tom Cruise peel way before Tom Cruise did it.

And I had the mask up in my hand, up in the air.

The hair is still attached.

It's a face and it's hair.

The men in the semi-circle, some had been listening, some had not.

John Sununu, who was next to me, had not been listening.

And he let out, I don't know if I would call it a shriek or a squeal.

He was startled, and next to him was Bob Gates, who had also been with CIA, and he just smiled.

And on the far end was Brent Scowcroft, who was kind of scowling at me, holding my head up in the air.

There was a White House photographer in the room, and she was going around taking pictures.