During our trip, I interviewed the General three times and chatted with him informally on many other occasions. I kept a detailed diary of all the discussions I had on the road. This week, after President-elect Donald Trump announced that he would nominate Mattis as his Secretary of Defense, I reread the diary. Now that Mattis might stand between Trump and, say, an order to launch a war or to ready nuclear weapons for use, I thought I should reread the files for insight into his thinking and character.
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