A high school newspaper landed an interview with Defense Secretary James Mattis after an aide inadvertently leaked the military leader’s cell phone number to the public.
Mattis’s cell phone number was visible in a photo run by The Washington Post in May. The Post removed the photo, but high school journalist Teddy Fischer saved it and called Mattis asking for an interview.
Mattis agreed to do the interview with Fischer and Jane Gormley of The Islander, the newspaper at Mercer Island High School in Washington state.
“So, I’ve always tried to help students because I think we owe it to you young folks to pass on what we learned going down the road so that you can make your own mistakes, not the same ones we made,” Mattis said about doing the interview.
The interview topics ranged from helping to repair the Arab world after ISIS to the role of non-profits in foreign policy to what topics high school students should be studying.
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High school newspaper lands interview with Mattis by calling his leaked cell phone number https://t.co/oHryxc07sQ pic.twitter.com/B6CVF4sjZC
— The Hill (@thehill) July 10, 2017
Endearing interview with the great, smart, humble and decent man who is our Defense Secretary https://t.co/xIhTz2uCgP
— Niall Ferguson (@nfergus) July 10, 2017
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