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Chatter: Former National Security Advisor Steve Hadley's Reflections on Presidential Transitions

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The Transition Memos - Hand Off, the Foreign Policy George W. Bush, Passed to Barack Obama

David Rothkopf: Much of what you just brought up, Steve, the transition memos and much of the material around it is contained in a new book that is remarkable. The book is called Hand Off, the foreign policy George W. Bush, passed to Barack Obama. It's almost 800 pages of transition memos, of analysis by one or more of the people who prepared those memos. He says President Bush was all for it; he requested the National Archives to declassify the 40 transition memos.

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