Who Wakes the Prime Minister?
Daniel wrote in with a question: what happens when a head of state needs a nap? The answer turns out to be a whole invisible machine — the 45-pound Presidential Emergency Satchel that rides the same elevator as the president, the laminated biscuit Carter once left in dry cleaning, the Number Ten duty clerk who decides whether to disturb the PM, and the White House operator who once refused to put Hillary Clinton through. This episode pulls back the curtain on permanent availability: the American doctrine of "you can't be fired for waking the president," Kissinger's admission that he woke…
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