“‘This isn’t goodbye,’ said the president, signing autographs and posing for pictures before leaving for his next appointment, ‘this is hello.’ His national security staff would have an open-door policy.

Believe . . . feel . . . hope.

We’d been had…

I asked Cmdr. Kirk Lippold why some of the Cole families declined the invitation to meet with Barack Obama at the White House.

‘They saw it for what it was.'”