Warren Gulley Quotes

Warren "Bill" Gulley was an American military non-commissioned officer who, in retirement, served as the first civilian chief of the White House Military Office. In that position he amassed substantial political influence and established a sometimes feared reputation.

Gulley later went into private business with Gen. Brent Scowcroft and others. In 1980 he wrote an exposé on misdeeds and embezzlement he'd witnessed during his career, Breaking Cover. Wikipedia

✵ 16. November 1922 – 24. February 2012

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Warren Gulley Quotes

“I learned a long time ago never to press where there's something you want to know. Show little interest in the subject, never ask questions, don't make people start asking themselves why you want to know. That way, sooner or later, you'll find out.”

Breaking Cover https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0671245481 (1980), p. 25

“In the White House, you never worry about the law. I never worried about the law, about breaking the law. This never entered my mind, and I doubt it ever entered the minds of people who asked me to do things - maybe for a little bit after Nixon resigned, but it evaporated almost immediately. My thinking was, if the President wants it done, it's right. I never questioned it. It never occurred to me that some sheriff might show up someday with a warrant.”

[Gulley, Bill, Breaking Cover, 1980, Simon and Schuster, 0671245481, 21, 25]

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