When They Come From Space
When They Come From Space
“I didn't often ask his help in running my department, to say nothing of my personal affairs, and he seemed glad to demonstrate he could do things I couldn't. He was willing for me to sit down and watch how much weight he could swing around the Pentagon.But as the series of frustrating telephone calls wore out the long morning, he progressed from high confidence, to exasperation, to self-disciplined patience, to bewilderment, to anger, to defeat.He sat back finally in his overstuffed chair, beetled his heavy brows, and peered at me suspiciously across the desk."You say you didn't apply for the job. Let's say I believe you."I straightened up from a weary slouch and raised my hand in the scout-oath position."Wouldn't have done you any good if you had,” he rumbled from somewhere down in the granite façade. “After some of the things you've done to some of those officers, you'd have been turned down like a shot. They all agree with me that the sheer safety of our nation depends on keeping y...ou away from the Pentagon.MoreLess
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