When the door opened, one of her military aides stepped inside the study.
He was followed by a military aide and two other men in civilian clothes.
"I am not sure how many of the knuckleheads there are," he said, according to notes taken by a military aide.
It was not, however, a military aide who faced him.
The secretary gave the military aide a long measuring look which the general returned without a blink.
Then, more surprisingly, he turned to Laskov instead of to his military aides.
The briefcase is carried by a military aide for the President.
In 1904, he was made a military aide to President Roosevelt.
For part of that time he was also President Johnson's military aide.
Was once assigned as a military aide to the White House.