you talk about tommy franks, you guys have everything you need win. and you get a yes, sir.you've got to make ry interesting moment. you write about leaving the situation room. you knew were you putting kids in harm's way. you said you walked up stairs through the oval office, slow lap around the south lawn. you said a prayer for our troops. safety of our country. the strength -- to have strength in the days ahead. there was one man that understood what you were feeling. you sat down at your desk and you scrawled out a letter to? >> to my dad, yeah. >> sean: i have the letter here. >> i can't read it, i wouldn't make it through. his letter to me was such a touching response. i hope that the reader of the book will have a better sense of my dad, his compassion and his -- what it is like to be the father of the president. >> sean: also, that was the toughest decision you made your life? >> it was. >> sean: to make that decision. >> it is. >> sean: your father said your handwritten note, just received, touched my heart. you are doing the right thing, he said to you. your decisi

. >> you bring everybody inside that decision-making and you talk about tommy franks and do you guysve everything you need to win and you get a yes, sir,, they are ready to go and you got to make that decision. very interesting moment. you write about leaving the situation room, you knew you were putting kids in harm's way and you said you walked upstairs through the oval office, a slow step across the south lawn. said a prayer for our troops, for our country, to have strength in the days ahead and there was one man that understood what you were feeling and you sat down at your desk and you scrawled out a letter to him. >> to my dad. >> i have the letter here. >> i can't read it. i hope that the reader of the book will have a better sense of my dad, his compassion and his -- what it is like to be the father of the president. >> but also that was the toughest decision you made in your life. >> it was, yeah. >> to make that decision. >> it is. >> your father wrote you back and said your hand written know the just received touched my heart. you are doing the right thing he said to you.

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. >> you bring everybody inside that decision-making and you talk about tommy franks and do you guys everything you need to win and you get a yes, sir,, they are ready to go and you got to make that decision. very interesting moment. you write about leaving the situation room, you knew you were putting kids in harm's way and you said you walked upstairs through the oval office, a slow step across the south lawn. said a prayer for our troops, for our country, to have strength in the days ahead and there was one man that understood what you were feeling and you sat down at your desk and you scrawled out a letter to him. >> to my dad. >> i have the letter here. >> i can't read it. i hope that the reader of the book will have a better sense of my dad, his compassion and his -- what it is like to be the father of the president. >> but also that was the toughest decision you made in your life. >> it was, yeah. >> to make that decision. >> it is. >> your father wrote you back and said your hand written know the just received touched my heart. you are doing the right thing he said to you. yo

you say here, "which includes the discussion of incapable war-planning with a compliant general tommy franks." >> yes. >> why do you call him compliant? >> because one can see that in the memoirs of douglas feith, for example, who was an undersecretary of defense. one can see that in the interactions in which feith and donald rumsfeld indeed apparently threatened franks with his job as a -- >> what was his job? >> his job was head of centcom at that time. and the rumsfeld years as secretary of defense, his second time around, made it plain that one did not cross the office of the secretary of defense and to that end, compliant people worked for him. >> did you ever work for the government? >> i've consulted for the government many times over the decades. >> there's a footnote here, it says -- what was he doing at the time and why were you talking to him? >> i was a student in paris at that time and i took it upon myself to visit the chinese embassy in paris, not realizing that it was extraordinary for an american student to wander in. vernon walters was the military attache in paris at the t