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The Aug. 6, 2001, President's Daily BriefThe PowerPoint version.

By Daniel Radosh
Updated Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 5:39 PM ET

Is the notorious Aug. 6, 2001, "President's Daily Brief" a smoking gun or merely historical information? Who can tell with all those complicated paragraphs and complete sentences? Surely life in the Oval Office (or on the ranch) would be much easier if POTUS got his predigested information the 21st-century way—in a PowerPoint presentation. Here's the President's Daily Even Briefer, the way it should have been.


Click here to open the PowerPoint slide show.

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