Discussion on Presidential Confirmation and Legacy

There is an initiation of an activity in this subject.

It remains to be seen, though, that he gives actual presidential confirmation.

Maybe you're more aware than I am.

Has he done that?

Not really. Nothing like what I'd call confirmation.

But that's really what you're talking about.

I remember us having a conversation in 2008,

right after you had signed the contract with DIA for Bass to run this program.

And you made the case then that what we need is not disclosure, it's confirmation for somebody like the president.

I'm not sure if it could be anyone less than the president that steps forward and says this and it carries the same kind of weight.

It's a big appetizer.

You know, you're looking for the entree and where's the dessert in this whole buffet?

But the confirmation is a huge appetizer to start with.

And that's why I started with that in my conversation with him,

is pushing him to try and do, make a confirmation.

And maybe he wants to get personally more comfortable,

and he will go down in history for a lot of things,

for better or worse, that people are on both sides of the fence about him and so forth.

But he's involved in so many different things, and has been, that I don't know what his legacy is going to be.

I really don't. He has an opportunity to,

in this serious subject,

to build a legacy using this as part of the blocks, part of the brick and the structure,

of the content of a structure that is very unique.

So you can have all the political programs that you want and so forth, and nobody is going to really remember those as time goes by, as the decades fade away.

Nobody can remember Benghazi and Afghanistan and Iraq, different kinds of things, and that's just recent history.

The world goes so fast.