As part of her summer series. Tonight you will hear from five of the last six men who have sat in the oval office. Now the practice of president s books, began with Thomas Jeffersons memoir in 1821. Eighteen president s since have written books prior to the 20th century, president ial memoirs were rare and Ulysses S Grant and mark was an exception since then, it is taken off since the 1950s. First of this evening, is one of our most prolific residents turned author. Jimmy carter. He is the author of 25 books including publicpolicy books, Foreign Policy books, a novel, and he is also written a Childrens Book which was illustrated by his daughter amy. In 2010, president carter appeared on book tv afterwards program where he discussed his white house diaries that he kept while he was in office from 1977 1981. Heres president carter being interviewed by president ial historian. Welcome to washington dc. It is wonderful to see you. I was wondering you fly in here, and you go over all of the
The white house is still there. I think about the wonderful times we had. And 40 miles a week which is a lot. Thinking about the good times that we had and how thankful i am now to have the superb bipartisan support existed in the seventies. Is there republican in the congress or senate that you enjoyed working with that you became friends with . Howard baker from tennessee was a minority leader and was a great personal friend of mine i got wonderful cooperation from the republican side and a minority leader the house of representatives also a great supporter of mine so during the last couple of years i was in the white house so they took away a lot of very liberal democrats with a moderate and conservative democrats and republicans. What about sam nunn . That is very important. He was a young senator then and was my floor leader on some of the key issues applied to nuclear power. He was very knowledgeable about it and working his way up to be chairman later on of the Defense Committee
To us a little bit about general we are pleased to welcome David Eisenhower. He is going to talk to us a little bit about general eisenhowers military surveys and how it developed came into a leader. It eventually led to him being the president. I always allow our panelists and speakers to introduce themselves. They can tell us what they want us to know about them. I will turn it over to you, david. Take it away. Thank you very much. Samantha, on, meredith, i hope you are there. Mac, if he is around, mary jean, i think she is subscribed, that is my sister. Mary, it is good to talk with you. I am used to looking into a screen on zoom. But i am talking to you in my classroom. We just did a three hour class on president ial speech. It broke up several minutes ago. Thank you for accommodating me. There was a several minute overlap in this program. That meant that we were able to resolve it. Okay, myself, i am the grandson of Dwight Eisenhower. I have spent a fair amount of time in abilene.
Relax, george told me i only had ten minutes. He was very direct about it, it wasnt even funny. Now, i first met my friend, my dear friend, george bush, in 1962 when my father was a member of the United States senate, just elected, and i came back to washington with dad to settle on his new office being vacated by one senator prescott bush, georges father. Then we met again when my parents left washington and sold their home to a brand spanking new congressman from texas named George Herbert walker bush. So george and barbara, mom and pop, did that sale on a handshake. Sound familiar . Then i came to the senate in 1978 and soon after that Ronald Reagan cornered me and asked me to support him for president. I said i would, not knowing that my friend, george, would enter the fray. Hearing that, i called and i said, george, i want to tell you id love to help, but i already committed to Ronald Reagan. Georges response, well, al, im sorry about that. I probably should have let you know soon
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