Welcome to the Alex Salmonds show. Last saturday some. 4 days after the election, senator joe biden became president elect joe biden. Now in line to the come, the 46 president of the United States with the highest ever popular vote in american history. I bet the Vice President elect kamel how this becoming the 1st woman and indeed 1st woman of color to ever hold that office. Dubai. The success and president trumps departure was widely welcomed across the world. However, our guest today had a very special reason for interest in the change of tenure in the white house today. Alex interviews allegedly photographer haile babysitter, who is portrait, studied every sitting american president since dwight eisenhower. Today we look at president ial politics, but with a difference through the lens of how the bateson but 1st to teach mischief. Now alex started last picture with a very personal tribute to a special friend of his. And im just says a very moving powerful and personal tribute to so
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Hi, there, im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining these three amazing authors today. You see them on the screen, they are George Packer whose latest book our man, richard holebooke and the end of the century, and peter baker, this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of James A Baker iii, two good books about two complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930, holebooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer. Holebooke, a democrat, Foreign Service officer. Student of Foreign Policy. Their lives took very different trajectories, but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter, picking up on that, this was 0 m a man with great ambiti and that was even before he came to washington. It was. He was part of a houston aristocracy. His family basically built modern houston. He was expected of great things. He had a father who impressed on him the legacy. One thing they were n
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To you today by your television provider. History and biography is sponsored by wells fargo. Im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining these three amazing authors to today. You see them on the screen, they are george packer, whose latest book our man, Richard Holbrook and the American Century and susan lasser and peter baker just this fall, the man who ran washington. The life and times of james a baker the third. Two brilliant books about too complicated and fascinating man. They were born at a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930, holbrook in manhattan in 1941. Acre republican trained as warrior. Holbrook a democrat Foreign Service officer,student of foreignpolicy. Their lives have very different trajectories but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter picking up on it, this is a man with ambition and it was even before he came to washington. It was he was part of a family of an aristocracy, his family basically builds moderninstant. They