{"id":53631,"date":"2024-09-09T06:00:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T11:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=53631"},"modified":"2024-09-03T10:05:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:05:33","slug":"situation-room","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/situation-room\/","title":{"rendered":"Situation Room"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>You might not think it possible, but after the botched Bay of Pigs invasion some people in Washington started pointing fingers.\u00a0 One of many digits were levelled at a dearth of current and accurate tactical information.\u00a0 In addition, there was a need to consolidate secure hotline communication anywhere in the world and to foreign governments.\u00a0 To that end, John F. Kennedy ordered the creation of such a White House apparatus in 1961.\u00a0 For $35,000, a former Truman-era bowling alley was renovated into a 24-7 complex synthesizing second-by-second global intelligence.\u00a0 Think the executive branch crossing a surgical theater with NASA’s Mission Control.<\/p>\n

Narrated by Stephanopoulos himself, this is the story of the “sit room<\/a>” and its inhabitants — from Presidents to intrepid overnight duty officers.\u00a0 \u00a0George throws a microphone on staff who were at the table during our nation’s most harrowing hours, and tosses in chilling anecdotes from heightened threat levels.\u00a0 In fact, with the audio version you get to hear authentic audio such as during JFK’s assassination a mere two years after the Situation Room’s founding.\u00a0 Other highlights include Vietnam, The Cold War, Reagan assassination attempt, 9-11, Operation Neptune Spear (Bin Laden raid), and January 6th, 2021.<\/p>\n

Americans aren’t the only ones to use the Situation Room.\u00a0 In fact, to defuse the brinksmanship of the Cuban Missile crisis the Kremlin announced on Radio Moscow in hopes it would reach Kennedy quicker than through diplomatic channels.\u00a0 We’re still here because Kruschev was correct.\u00a0 The Situation Room is always on top of the situation, even when the president has been, ahem, overserved<\/a>.\u00a0 The sit room has had several massive renovations — the last to the tune of $50 million in 2023.\u00a0 But really, it’s more emblematic to envision the brain trust convening in a broom closet<\/a> to watch bin Laden meet his maker over Skype.\u00a0 Simplicity on the surface, but deadly effective one you get past the wood veneer.\u00a0 And you thought you had a killer office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You might not think it possible, but after the botched Bay of Pigs invasion some people in Washington started pointing fingers.\u00a0 One of many digits were levelled at a dearth of current and accurate tactical information.\u00a0 In addition, there was a need to consolidate secure hotline communication anywhere in the[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[361,8],"tags":[9037,676,9036],"class_list":["post-53631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-staff-picks","tag-george-stephanopoulos","tag-nonfiction","tag-the-situation-room"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-dX1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53631"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53811,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53631\/revisions\/53811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}