Re: Re: SPD: Meeting the President

[rferrance]

The president nodded.  "You stay, Admiral. But," he said quickly, "you do *nothing* 
in a vaccuum.  Any command level decisions - especially those involving large 
reassignments of materiel or personnel, have to be signed off on by your
second in comand any myself.  Quietly, of course.  But on this, I will not 
negotiate.  I will trust you, but you help me trust you."
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  "Yes, sir.  I can definately live by that.  Although, if I may request, sir, that 
we revisit this discussion once again when the bond is broken."

"Oh, of course," the president assured him.  "This is only for the duration of the 
crisis."