My Father Told Me to Pretend We’d Never Met at the White House—Then General Vance Announced I Oversaw His Defense Contract Review

Administrative references.

Then he put his hand over the memorandum before I could read it.

“Procedural limit first.”

I sat.

“Tell me.”

“If your office has direct authority over this review, you cannot treat Arthur’s proposal like an ordinary file.”

“You’re saying I can’t review it?”

“I’m saying we need to establish whether you can.”

Different sentence.

Important difference.

Daniel slid the routing sheet toward me.

Mercer Defense Tech.

Expedited consideration requested.

Date:

March 9.

“That’s months ago.”

“Yes.”

“Who requested it?”