Ebola, sica, and now covid19. He is the winner of the president ial medal of freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States. We are grateful for his lifetime of Public Service and particularly for his candor and expertise during this critical time. Let me ask you for a broad overview of the pandemic, where are we now . We are in a difficult situation. We have a large outbreak, there have been close to 140,000 deaths and several million infections. That is sobering news. We have some bright spots, areas of the country like the new york metropolitan area which has been through a difficult time, probably worse than any other regional area but turned it around and come down but as we see now if you follow the news carefully which is pretty obvious that there are sections of the country, particularly a group of Southern States particularly california, florida, texas and arizona and others that are seeing a resurgence where we are seeing where we had a baseline of 20,000 cases a da
Joining us from new york John Dickerson, his newest book, the hardest job in the world the american presidency. Hes also a correspondent on cbs news. Thank you for being with us. Thank you, steve. What surprised you the most in researching this book . And working on the book over the last, its hard to know when i started pit i either started 30 years ago or ten years ago or three years ago but in the intensive interviews that started three years ago when people including former president s and those who served in the white house ceos of start to question or start all the interviews with the same question. If you were interviewing a candidate for the presidency like you were doing a Job Interview what questions would you ask and what with the first question be and i assumed the traditional answers i would get would be id ask about character or id ask about decisionmaking in the one i got that surprises me that kept coming up again and again was what is their ability to build a team and
Intensive interviews started two years ago including the former president s i would start all the interviews with the same question if you are interviewing a candidate for the presidency what questions would you ask and i assumed the traditional answers character, decisionmaking, and one that kept coming up again and again is what is the ability to build a team to manage people because everybody that i talked to come almost everybody was focused on the idea how a president put together a Management Team although we talk about it in campaigns as a single figure it is an organization a president is building and all those leaders i talked to any job the complexity and highstakes ghdecisionmaking that you have a team that you built that you tended to over that period of time because build wellfunctioning team with ongoing maintenance it was a surprise to theth extent that people focused on the management part of his job because they dont talk about that much withn campaigning. American pre
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