With All Due Respect Free Pdf

ISBN: 1250266556
Title: With All Due Respect Pdf Defending America with Grit and Grace
Author: Nikki Haley
Published Date: 2019-11-12
Page: 320

Nikki Haley served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2017 through 2019. She previously served as Governor of South Carolina from 2011 to 2017. She and her husband, Michael, an entrepreneur and combat veteran in the South Carolina Army National Guard, have two children.

A revealing, dramatic, deeply personal book about the most significant events of our time, written by the former United States Ambassador to the United Nations

Nikki Haley is widely admired for her forthright manner (“With all due respect, I don’t get confused”), her sensitive approach to tragic events, and her confident representation of America’s interests as our Ambassador to the United Nations during times of crisis and consequence.

In this book, Haley offers a first-hand perspective on major national and international matters, as well as a behind-the-scenes account of her tenure in the Trump administration.

This book reveals a woman who can hold her own―and better―in domestic and international power politics, a diplomat who is unafraid to take a principled stand even when it is unpopular, and a leader who seeks to bring Americans together in divisive times.

Why Everyone Should Read This Book Today’s bookshelves are overflowing with political books from members of both the Republican and Democrat parties, as well as opinions from those whose views represent those in other camps. Many explode and condemn by names the people who do not follow the same political beliefs. It was a welcome relief to see that type of behavior is not repeated in this book from Nikki Haley. One of the guiding principles represented is her belief that Americans need to “…refocus the country on working together to build our strength and not allow ourselves to be torn apart.”Yes, that is easy to say and very hard to do. Throughout the pages of “With all Due Respect,” the author poses the tough questions she has dealt with and explains what she did and why, both as Governor of South Carolina and later as the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Ms. Haley shares her emotions, the strengths of a person with strong ideals. Through it all, the emphasis is on respect for all and working together to move forward.Author Nikki Haley talks openly about the challenges she has faced through her life and how they have shaped her and given her the tools to address whatever confronted her over the last few years. She approached each issue and gave those who disagreed with her the dignity they deserved. Her actions describe even more than her words, demonstrating she is a person who looks past the racial and political lines to find agreement between people, between citizens of this country and of the world. She makes no apologies for acknowledging her heritage while at the same time considering herself an American. The world needs more Nikki Haleys. Five stars.A VERY INTERESTING LOOK INSIDE THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION, AND MUCH MORE Author Nikki R. Haley wrote in the first chapter of this 2019 book, “President Trump, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, and I were gathered … to talk about North Korea and other national security issues… It was no secret that Rex and I had had our differences. But that night they reached what one anonymous White House source would call ‘World War III levels.’.. Rex had been arrogant and condescending. He gave off the unmistakable impression that he knew more than everyone else in the room---including the president… My case to the president was straightforward. The Iran deal had been sold dishonestly to the American people… [who] needed to hear why this agreement was bad for our national security… Secretary Tillerson [said]… ‘No, we’re not going to do this’… I looked at him, stunned. I wasn’t asking for his permission. I was asking the president… I regretted that our disagreement had to play out in front of the president, but I wasn’t about to back down…Iran’s violent suppression of the Iranian people and its support for terrorism had only increased since the nuclear deal was signed… Then the president decided he had had enough. ‘You all get together and figure this out.’ … The president would later say: ‘I have never seen anybody treated the way Rex treated Nikki.’ …. But the incident was also a great snapshot of my relationship with the president. When I had an idea… I could pick up the phone and call the president. Our communication was nearly constant.” (Pg. 2-5)She explains, “I’m not blind to America’s faults. I am the daughter of Indian immigrants… I was born a brown girl in a black-and-white world. My sister and I … were disqualified from a children’s pageant because we weren’t white or black. We were somewhere in between. The pageant organizers… didn’t have a category for us… And when I ran for governor, the pain was bipartisan. An African American Democrat denounced me as ‘a conservative with a tan.’ And a white Republican called me a ‘raghead.’” (Pg. 11)She was serving as governor when the June 16, 2015 murders at the Mother Emanuel Church in Charleston occurred. That same year, she signed legislation calling for the removal of the Confederate flag from the State Capitol, observing, “We are not going to allow this symbol to divide us any longer… The fact that it causes so much pain is enough to move it from the capital grounds.” (Pg. 37)During Trump’s 2016 campaign, “I agreed with his positions on securing our southern border and keeping America safe from terrorism. But his rhetoric in expressing those views turned me off. … Trump was touching raw nerves. The more he did so, the more I was worried that some deranged person might react with violence… I was concerned that’s how he might be wrongly taken.” (Pg. 56) She later endorsed Marco Rubio. (Pg. 65)She challenged Trump to release his tax returns. He said in a tweet, “The people of South Carolina are embarrassed by Nikki Haley!” She responded rather politely, and “it changed my relationship with Donald Trump. After that there was a kind of strange respect between us. He knew I was tough and I was going to say what I think. I understood he was the same.” (Pg. 66-67)After the election, Trump (via chief of staff Reince Priebus) asked her to be the Ambassador to the UN, and she replied, “Reince, I don’t even know what the United Nations does!... All I know is that everybody hates it.” (Pg. 75) She proposed that this position be elevated to a cabinet position, and be on the National Security Council, and Trump agreed. (Pg. 78) She engaged in a “crash course in global affairs.” (Pg. 84)After Trump ordered missile strikes against Syria (who had used chemical weapons), she comments, “The United States was back. We would give diplomacy every chance to work… But in the end we would defend our interests… It was the first time I realized that behind all the America-bashing at the UN is a genuine desire, even a need, for the United States to lead.” (Pg. 112) Later, she adds, “I was determined that the United States would lead once again at the United Nations.” (Pg. 138)After the UN General Assembly voted 128-9 to reject Trump’s decision to move our embassy to Jerusalem, she comments, “I always said we would be ‘taking names,’ and that goes both ways---taking the names of those who work against us, but also taking the names of those who stand with us… In the end, the Jerusalem embassy votes was not a complete waste of time. It led us to dive deeper into just exactly what the American people were getting for their investments in both the UN and foreign aid.” (Pg. 143-144)She recalls, “[Chief of Staff John] Kelly let it slip that he thought making the UN job a cabinet-level position had been a terrible decision by the president… But the fundamental issue wasn’t my cabinet status. The issue was that Rex and the president didn’t agree on much when it came to policy. Rex was more cautious, more in line with the bureaucracy at the State Department and the foreign-policy establishment. I didn’t always agree with the president, either. But… I understood that the buck stopped with him… Rex struggled with the president’s decision.” (Pg. 149-150)Then, the passages cited often in the media: “Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when they resisted the president, they weren’t being insubordinate, they were trying to save the country. It was THEIR decisions, not the president’s, that were in the best interests of America, they said. The president didn’t know what he was doing. ‘I don’t even think he realizes what the legislative branch is and that members of Congress are elected by the people,’ Kelly said. But it wasn’t the legislative branch that these men wanted the president to defer to; it was THEM. Tillerson went on to tell me the reason he resisted the president’s decisions was because, if he didn’t people would DIE… We are doing the best we can to save the country… We need you to work with us and help us do it… The problem was.. Their idea of ‘saving the country’ was not stopping a president who they thought was somehow unable to do his job… Their obligations in those situations was to express their disagreement to the president. And if they couldn’t change his mind, they needed to carry out his wishes or leave…. They were definitely working AROUND HIM. They were stalling, distracting, taking matters into their own hands… They were heading down a very dangerous path.” (Pg. 150-151)She adds, “They understood I was never going to be a part of their effort. And I was determined to continue to do my job. I would be open and honest with the president. And I would try to avoid the drama that was swirling around the White House. I should have known. Despite my efforts, there was more drama ahead.” (Pg. 154)After the march in Charlottesville on August 11, 2017 (which resulted in one dead, and thirty-five injured), Trump made the statement, “I think there’s blame on both sides… You had some very bad people in that group, but you also had people that were very fine people, on both sides… there are two sides to the country.” She observes, “I was deeply disturbed. I was certain he didn’t understand how damaging his remarks were… the president’s words had been hurtful and dangerous.” (Pg. 169)She recounts, “I told the president what he had said in the press conference with Putin made me very uncomfortable. The Russians aren’t our friends. They will never be our friends… And the truth was that the Russians did meddle in our elections. They were continuing to try to manipulate us.” Then, “To his credit, the president soon … [said] he had misspoken and that he accepted U.S. intelligence agencies’ findings about Russian meddling in the election.” (Pg. 185)In October 2018, she told the president she was stepping down. “Some wrote that I was the only departing cabinet member who had left on good terms, with my reputation enhanced by my time in the Trump administration…. The truth was, if I was leaving the Trump administration in better shape than when I came in, it was because of … my good relationship with the president, and my respect for his office.” (Pg. 232) She concludes the book, “I realize there are many who will think this book is motivation for something in the future. I can’t help that. I can only say that facts are remembered and emotions fade, but it is the emotions that dictate the lessons we learn. I wanted all of you to know what I felt as I went through these times in my life.” (Pg. 248)Ms. Haley is rare in leaving the administration on “good terms” and writing a book that is predominantly supportive of the president. Despite her disavowals, this book certainly SEEMS like a “campaign book” for some future office---but we will just have to wait and see.

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