CNN Anderson Cooper 360 October 29, 2019 00:49:00
Carrier, "the u.s.s. ford." he brought up the reporter from the washington post. he brought up the idea of a parade. it was something that i recount in the book that mattis and others were adamantly opposed to it. first, they didn't like the optics of having a full parade certainly going down pennsylvania avenue and just the optics of tanks. it harkens back to soviet era display of power. more importantly, when you have a military it needed all the funding it could get to rebuild and restore itself after decades of war. you wanted to use that funding for building the military and not on a mili...
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