Summary of One Damn Thing After Another By William P. Barr : Memoirs of an Attorney General

By Willie M. Joseph

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One Damn Thing After Another is vivid, forthright, and essential to understanding the Bush and Trump legacies. Barr takes listeners behind the scenes during seminal moments of the 1990s, from the LA riots to Pan Am 103 and Iran Contra. Thirty years later, Barr faced an unrelenting barrage of issues, such as Russiagate and the 2020 election fallout.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Willie M. Joseph
• Release date: Mar 9, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201666040

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Part I Early Years

Chapter 1

Planning Ahead

Gene Seymour grew up on the Upper West Side of New York City's Columbia University neighborhood. His father, Donald Barr, graduated from Columbia and his mother, Mary Margaret Ahern, from St. Joseph College. Like many in my generation, World War II brought my parents together. He tried for months to get her to go on a date with him, but she refused. The principle of mutually assured destruction moderated sibling conflict in the Barr household.

As a child of the Great Depression, my mother was anxious that the bottom was about to fall out. She called it her Celtic gloom and told me I'd inherited it. For a lawyer, it is a great trait to anticipate what could go wrong. The Barr family dinner table was a loud free-for-all, with little small talk. My father had an interesting style when he expounded on a subject.

He would use an elevated, scholarly delivery, but then punctuate it with earthy and rougher language.  He says the Dominican nuns who taught there provided a superb education. Greene: One teacher he adored was Sister Lucinda; he tried to find her through the order's website. It turned out she was still alive at ninety-three and living at the motherhouse. Bob Greene: My father did not formally convert to Catholicism until his late seventies.

He seemed to know more about the faith than most theologians, Greene writes. Greene: I established a computer lab at his old school dedicated to his old teacher, Sister Lucinda. When Richard Nixon was elected president, he asked his daughter Patricia to be his godmother for his baptismal ceremony. He had worked with me on a speech I made in support of Dwight Eisenhower when I was six-years-old. In 1960 we were supporting Vice President Richard Nixon over Senator John Kennedy.

My neighborhood friends included Norman Podhoretz, Irving Kristol and Midge Decter. Crime was an ever-present reality; my mother was held up several times at knifepoint for parking. The image of her storming out into the street captures much of what was right and beautiful about midcentury America, writes author Robert McCallister. In the 1930s, bagpipe teacher John MacKenzie was a central figure in bagpipe education in New York. He was pipe major of a Scottish battalion at the age of 20.

After three years he progressed enough to join the Thistle Guildry Pipe Band. Billy's band would compete against other US and Canadian bands at various East Coast events. The student body was overwhelmingly Jewish, and I had no previous exposure to that culture. The school sought to instill the qualities of mind and character that promote intellectual growth. I want a career in intelligence, Billy says he told the director of the CIA.

Well, that is a very precise goal, the director said. My strategy is to make myself an attractive candidate by becoming an expert on China, Billy adds. I was relatively shy with girls and, attending an all-boys school, rarely met them I decided to run a match between a hundred boys and a hundred girls. I called it Calcu-date and said computers would be used to help make the