When bin Laden’s corpse was laid out, one of the Navy SEALs was asked to stretch out next to it to compare heights. The SEAL was 6 feet tall. The body was several inches taller.For me, this humanizes Pres. Obama and I'm wondering if that's the effect Woodward intended?
After the information was relayed to Obama, he turned to his advisers and said: “We donated a $60 million helicopter to this operation. Could we not afford to buy a tape measure?”
Sunday, May 08, 2011
A NICE TOUCH
Bob Woodward wrote about the OBL mission in the WaPo and at the end he included this anecdote:
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In disdaining his base, he certainly set the stage for the "rehumanization" of Cheney today.
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