Parallel we continue with reggie love who is president obamas body man and written a book called Power Forward my president ial education. I think its a testament to one his own work ethic but i think also his ability to inspire people. I think he and coach que have the ability for people to buy into something that is bigger than them to invest into work and to really forge together as a sgrup in order to do something unique and powerful. And everybody doesnt know how to do that and i think its very its an amazing quality to have. We conclude with Robert Morgenthau and will you denda francs and their book about nair love affair. Timeless love morgenthau and me. People know bob as a brilliant prosecutor. Hes been called the da of the world. But they know a kind of reserved stiff person that will not, you know reveal his real self. Right. I wanted him to go down in history as a rounded person. I wanted to do a portrait in all his complexities that people didnt know. At the same time i wa
Parallel we continue with reggie love who is president obamas body man and written a book called Power Forward my president ial education. I think its a testament to one his own work ethic but i think also his ability to inspire people. I think he and coach que have the ability for people to buy into something that is bigger than them to invest into work and to really forge together as a sgrup in order to do something unique and powerful. And everybody doesnt know how to do that and i think its very its an amazing quality to have. We conclude with Robert Morgenthau and will you denda francs and their book about nair love affair. Timeless love morgenthau and me. People know bob as a brilliant prosecutor. Hes been called the da of the world. But they know a kind of reserved stiff person that will not, you know reveal his real self. Right. I wanted him to go down in history as a rounded person. I wanted to do a portrait in all his complexities that people didnt know. At the same time i wa
Example for future first ladies, ellen wilson died just a year and half into the president s term. The grieving president soon met washington businesswoman edith galt. They married after a secret courtship and edith wilson served as first lady for more than five years. Her unprecedented role in managing the president s affairs after he suffered a stroke remains are the most controversial efforts of any first lady. Tonight, the story of the Wilson Administrations two first ladies, ellen and edith. We have two tragc deaths here to tell you about these two interesting women and the times in which they lived. Her book is allen and edith, Woodrow Wilsons first ladies. John mills cooper is Woodrow Wilsons biographer. Thanks for being with us. We have been telling the stories chronologically, but Everybody Knows about edith wilson managing the white house as it is described after her husband suffers a stroke. We will tell that story first because so many people really want to know what happen
Give us your analysis of that. Theres no question that he is not only mysteries but a president and an autocrat at the same time. Clearly, this is a very, very difficult situation. How do you remove a president who has functionally no term of office and the power of the state behind him, the power of the military behind him . That is a conundrum that we have not yet managed to figure a way out of. I would like to see a system where the International Community could in fact joined together to bring about a change in the regime such as assad. We are not there yet. We dont have a United Nations or any multinational contract in any fashion that has been able to successfully do that. That is really a major hole in the International System today. Is he being propped up by some of the most imperial president s currently in office, namely mr. Putin and the iranians . Certainly the iranians have helped out. We have a new regime in iran that is trying some kind of agreement with the west, or dem
Modernizing conservatism. Here is a brief look. In 2001, before september 11, one of the big issues that the new president faced was whether and how the federal government should fund Embryonic Stem Cell Research that involves the destruction of human embryos. To all of us, this means of the taking of a human life. Whether it was moral to spend money on that public research. The president made a decision that said you could spend money on cells that already existed but not new ones, you would not be using federal dollars to encourage the further destruction of human embryos. He said these kinds of issues are going to stay with us, they are not going away and we need help in thinking about them. He called together the bioethics commission, a group of 18 scholars, almost all of them academics. They would come together several times a year and consider a bioethical question with how it Public Policy applications and provide advice to the administration and the country in the form of repor