Donald Trump Will Soon Be Receiving His National Security-Intelligence Briefings

NPR: Donald Trump Is About To Start Getting Intelligence Briefings

Harry Truman had been vice president for only 82 days when Franklin Roosevelt died, so there was quite a lot he needed to learn when he became president in 1945.

"He didn't even know the atomic bomb existed," historian David Priess said. "He didn't know about the Manhattan Project."

Priess, a former CIA officer and author of The President's Book of Secrets, a history of the president's daily brief, said that experience made Truman resolve that no future president should come into office unprepared.

So in 1952, as the world grew accustomed to nuclear peril and other threats in the unfolding Cold War, Truman offered classified briefings about the global security situation to each of the major-party nominees running to replace him. That tradition has held up ever since.

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WNU Editor: Not everyone is happy with this arrangement .... Former Officials Raise Concerns Over Trump and Clinton Receiving Classified Briefings (ABC News). What's my take .... if the person is the nominee for their party, he or she should receive their briefing.

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