VaticanAssassin
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Hmmm....
Watching him and Biden debate could be fun.
1. Nickname was “Peaches” when he was young — either because of his lack of facial hair or because it was a shortened version of his surname.
2. During a training exercise in 1991 was hit in the chest by a bullet. His surgeon at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center was Bill Frist, who would later become Senate majority leader. (Petraeus convinced his doctors to release him early by doing 50 sit-ups.)
3. Unanimously confirmed as director of the CIA in June 2011, by a Senate vote of 94-0.
4. Known as a “warrior-scholar,” according to Reuters, having earned his master’s and doctorate from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
5. Treated for prostate cancer in 2009, but caught the disease at an early stage.
7. Collapsed in his chair during intense questioning in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. He blamed dehydration.
8. Shortly after graduating, Petraeus married the daughter of his superintendent at West Point, Holly Knowlton.
9. His wife, Holly is the assistant director for Servicemember Affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency founded as a part of the Dodd-Frank act.
10. His father, Sixtus, was a sea captain, and his mother, Miriam, was a librarian.
Watching him and Biden debate could be fun.
1. Nickname was “Peaches” when he was young — either because of his lack of facial hair or because it was a shortened version of his surname.
2. During a training exercise in 1991 was hit in the chest by a bullet. His surgeon at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center was Bill Frist, who would later become Senate majority leader. (Petraeus convinced his doctors to release him early by doing 50 sit-ups.)
3. Unanimously confirmed as director of the CIA in June 2011, by a Senate vote of 94-0.
4. Known as a “warrior-scholar,” according to Reuters, having earned his master’s and doctorate from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.
5. Treated for prostate cancer in 2009, but caught the disease at an early stage.
7. Collapsed in his chair during intense questioning in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing. He blamed dehydration.
8. Shortly after graduating, Petraeus married the daughter of his superintendent at West Point, Holly Knowlton.
9. His wife, Holly is the assistant director for Servicemember Affairs at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the agency founded as a part of the Dodd-Frank act.
10. His father, Sixtus, was a sea captain, and his mother, Miriam, was a librarian.
