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Who Takes Notes in the Situation Room?
Who are the people physically in the room during high-level government meetings, producing the records that end up before commissions of inquiry? This episode explores the hidden world of institutional note-takers — from the White House's Presidential Diarist (a career civil servant who logs the president's every movement) to Israel's Cabinet Secretary system and the UK's Cabinet Office Secretariat. We examine how note-takers' neutrality (or lack thereof) shapes historical records, why the Presidential Daily Diary is more ship's log than personal diary, and what happens when political…
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