Nerve Center by Michael K Bohn
The White House Situation Room is arguably the most important facility in the most important building in the world. As the president's intelligence and alert center, it provides vital communication and crisis management capabilities to the chief executive and his advisers. It can also be an island of calm, as a top adviser for Vice President Al Gore once described it. So little is known about the Situation Room that, until the publication of Nerve Center, the American public's knowledge of it is almost entirely based on its portrayal by the entertainment industry. Yet, as Michael K. Bohn points out, Hollywood has failed to capture the real drama of the Situation Room. Numerous crises come alive in Nerve Center, from the Vietnam War (when President Johnson made late night visits to the Situation Room wearing his pajamas and went so often that he moved his Oval Office chair there), to the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, to today's high-tech war on terrorism. Created in the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs fiasco by advisers to President John Kennedy, presidents, cabinet members, and National Security Council staff members have all come to depend on the Situation Room. I knew that I could always rely on the Situation Room, President Jimmy Carter recalled, and it never let me down. Bohn, who served as director of the Situation Room for the first President George Bush, has recruited numerous officials, including former and current staff, to tell the colorful forty-year history of the Situation Room. In a final chapter, Bohn uses a fictional crisis to describe how the Situation Room will evolve to help the president meet the challenges of an increasingly dangerous future.Michael K.Bohn is a feature writer for the Washington Post Magazine, McClatchy Newspapers, and the McClatchy Tribune News Service. He was the director of the White House Situation Room under President Ronald Reagan. He has appeared in documentaries on the History Channel and Discovery Channel, and is the author of Nerve Center: Inside the White House Situation Room and other works. He is a resident of Alexandria, Virginia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781574884388 |
| ISBN 10 | 1574884387 |
| Title | Nerve Center |
| Author | Michael K Bohn |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Potomac Books Inc |
| Year published | 2003-03-31 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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