Lynn Thoman
speaker
1,507 appearances
28 recordings
1 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 6d ago
Lynn Thoman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Appearances
Meet him.
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Every crisis seems to come with the same pressure.
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Mr.
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President, do something.
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You've been in that room.
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Why can those three words be the most dangerous advice a president receives?
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How does one get to that brilliance in the middle?
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Can you talk about that personal experience?
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Can you give an example?
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Of course, that's not classified.
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Here's something that surprised me.
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The presidents rarely have all the information that they would like before making life and death decisions.
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How often do they have to act knowing they'll never have all the facts that they want?
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I don't think that most people appreciate the uncertainty.
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And of course, when decisions get judged, we look back with twenty twenty hindsight.
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One statistic stopped me in my tracks.
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The Congress has declared war only five times in all of American history and not once since World War Two.
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Yet America has fought in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and many other conflicts.
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How is that possible?
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The Constitution was written, as you point out in your law reviewed article, for a country with no standing army.
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