Jack Keane: Mattis a ‘Closet Intellectual, in the Sense of a Man’ Who Continues to Learn

KEANE: "He spent a lifetime of learning. I think of him as an in -- closet intellectual, not in the academic sense that we think of intellectuals, but in the sense of a man who's made a commitment to continue to learn about life and about the issues that we’re all facing as human beings. That kind of commitment to intellectual honesty and to intellectual learning is -- is Jim Mattis. And It's reflective in his decision-making process, it's reflective in contemplative methodical way he looks at issues and the comprehensive way he -- he receives information when he's going through the decision-making process."
MACCALLUM: "Yeah."
KEANE: "So that's -- that's a fuller picture of -- of the Jim Mattis the American people will get to know."