Finger (Greg Nash/Pool via AP)
Michael Beschloss is a historian so you can take his deeply considered observation about Senator Josh Hawley’s finger to the bank.
Beschloss has written about Presidents Kennedy, Eisenhower, Johnson, and Truman and he’s credited with being a keen observer, so his Hawley observation was one to watch.
In short, the author and favorite presidential historian of the PBS crowd, when Doris Kearns Goodwin isn’t around that is, thinks that Hawley’s pointed finger during the attorney general senate confirmation of Judge Merrick Garland was historically noteworthy.
Beschloss was shocked, nay stunned, that Hawley would dare point a finger at Garland.