The ceiling was in his head

Card 03 of 8 · The Passholder · The Switching Yard

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“It never occurred to me when I was Humphrey’s principal advisor that I could be National Security Advisor. It was not in my sense of what was feasible in America at that time.” He had privately capped his own career at Assistant Secretary. No rule changed. What changed was watching another immigrant with a doctorate and an accent get the job.

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