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...lifetime filled with so many blessings, I am constantly asking Barbara, "Where would we be without friends?" So many wonderful people have helped us in so many ways through the years, but that question is particularly easy to answer when it comes to Bob Mosbacher...
...Without Bob, who died Jan. 24 at age 82, it's highly unlikely I would have ever been President of the United States...
...Gates about his influence within the Administration, he'd stress that he serves at the pleasure of the Commander in Chief. But that too is a mark of his craft. "I have never seen anyone more effectively maneuver in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government than Bob Gates," says his old friend David Boren, the former head of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee who is now advising the White House on intelligence. "He knows just when to give his advice, to whom to give it, and he's extremely good at forming alliances with other people in the government...
...Soviets would never leave Afghanistan. They did. He said [former Afghan President] Najibullah would never survive the Soviet departure. He was totally wrong. Najibullah survived three or four years," recalls Mort Abramowitz, who was Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research at the time. "People make mistakes. Bob is not infallible...
...Last November, Brown had suggested that five provinces would be under Afghan control by the end of 2010, and President Obama set a goal of beginning to draw down U.S. troops in July 2011. Thursday's communiqué avoids most such specifics. Britain's Secretary of State for Defense Bob Ainsworth told TIME he expects "late this year or early next to be able to transition some provinces" to Afghan control. "We're not on an exit strategy," he added. "We're going to put this country in a good place...