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The Best and the Brightest, by David Halberstam
The Best and the Brightest is David Halberstam’s masterpiece, the defining history of the making of the Vietnam tragedy. Using portraits of America’s flawed policy makers and accounts of the forces that drove them, The Best and the Brightest reckons magnificently with the most important abiding question of our country’s recent history: Why did America become mired in Vietnam and why did it lose? As the definitive single-volume answer to that question, this enthralling book has never been superseded. It’s an American classic. — Goodreads
Above, the discussion team tackle Trump’s “team” (little “t”)… I am not surprised that as a whole, they are NOT the best NOR the brightest.. the loyalty test seems like a raised arm salute, to me.
Editor’s Note: NotebookLLM doesn’t provide a good solution to saving or copying the content of a notebook. Instead it offers you the choice to allow public access with a link. For the full Notebook of this deep research project, the link is:
https://notebooklm.google.com/notebook/fc0eeb1c-cebb-49a9-94c5-daf92e798908
Unfortunately, this is not a true “public” link. You will still need to login with some Google account (their requirement and yes, it’s dumb to offer “public” when it’s not) to view the notebook. A shame but that’s monster entity choice.
At the link and notebook, you can view my sources, notes, discussion, and more. I hope this is helpful to understanding Trump’s “people.” Below is a mind map from the research, showing the relationships…

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