general lelectorates, they keep sticking their thumbs in the eye os of ge executives and they dept raising taxes in a way that general electric couldn t be kpcompetitive. and then there was a guy in the state legislature, and he says their guys want to go around on yachts during the weekend. we don t have to stay here, so general electric after being in connecticut for decades, it they moved to boston. delta airlines, i mean, delta, you could ptd be more right.
and others were working with. i think it may take longer but this will be on the timeline. the only counterexample of this, i think, is the really rapid shift of opinion on marriage equality which happened in almost eight or nine years. you look at president obama in who in 08 ran against it or was not in favor of it and then read his statement when the supreme court decision came out which is a great piece of almost american scripture. things can happen fast but more often than not they happen slowly. and you look at the age we re in, not only 24/7 news cycle but social media age and peggy i remember the first time i saw ronald reagan on television on the national stage in 1980 with my father and he said look at that guy. that guy has been talking into cameras his whole life. that s why he s so good at this. look at that guy, we re going to
pulitzer prize winning historian jon meacham, his new book the soul of america, the battle for our better angels will be published in may very, very good timi timing. john, i know you don t just like preachers don t like listening to other preachers because think think they can do a better job than other preachers i love watching preachers in the audience. i know you know exactly what i m talking about. they re like this, they re thinking i can do better. this chernow guy, you think he s sort of oh, come on! a passing phase. flash in the pan. have you read grant yesterday? i think i ve read his books which are all fantastic. you re lying, you don t feel that way about him. i do. i honestly do.
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right before the civil war, about 1860, it s extraordinary this sad, miserable life that this man led, the depression that inflicted him, he was in these outposts and all he wanted was to be with his wife and children. he was seen as a slob, slovenly, a drunkard and yet time and time again everybody that knew grant said he had the effect of being the guy that was slouched in the corner and then when you needed somebody to show more strength and more character and more power and more grit than anybody else suddenly this man transformed. he and lincoln saved our union