Editor’s Note: You can’t accuse me of recycling this morning. Instead, we are going to go time traveling in an all-new action packed adventure in the wild and exotic world of government Program and Budget. There is so much swirling around these days that it is much easier to just live in the past. Of […]

Editor’s Note: I was castigated severely this morning for “syndicating” the contents of The Daily over the last few dozen weeks. I took umbrage at the criticism, though upon further consideration can be viewed as a valid one. In defense of the hard-working staff here at Socotra House, there is so little that anyone can […]

Editor’s Note: It is appropriate that we arrive with Mac at the end of the Pacific War just as Winston’s bust has been returned to a place of honor in the Oval Office and the British Prime Minister is in Washington to take the measure of the new administration. Mac would have laughed- there is […]

(WWI sailor and WWII War Correspondent Ernie Pyle, seen here on USS Cabot when he was making waves with the Navy Department. Mac met him on Guam with the CINCPAC forward staff. Photo US Navy.) I tried to look at my notes from the most recent session with Mac at Willow and they are not […]

Editor’s Note: I had finished the slides for the big Weekly Meeting when the news came in. The slate of nominees to be Service Secretaries is complete. We knew about billionaire businessman Vincent Viola’s nomination to be the next Army Secretary, formerly the Secretary of War. There is word that General Mattis was not happy […]

Editor’s Note: Whatever you think of the new and old administrations, one has to observe that the new one doesn’t mind working. The lights are on in the West Wing early, and the meetings are going all day, with periodic breaks to sign Executive Orders. What an interesting next four years this is going to […]