The White House Correspondent dinner, not a trace of anxiety, though he must have felt it. And you know that is an important quality in a president of the united states, to be able to make decisions on the basis of the best information you have and live with those decisions. Rose David Axelrod for the hour next. Funding for charlie rose was provided by the following captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose David Axelrod is here, the strategist who lead Barack Obamas two successful president ial campaigns. For year he has got his scores of Top Democrats into office. Also served as a Senior Advisor to the white house. Now he says he left campaigning for ago dem ya, the first director of the university of chicagos institute of politics. I am pleased to have the David Axelrod as we look forward to the presidency inraise. Welcome. Thank you, good to be here, charlie. When you go to this inauguration, what are you going to feel
Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose David Axelrod is here, the strategist who lead Barack Obamas two successful president ial campaigns. For year he has got his scores of Top Democrats into office. Also served as a Senior Advisor to the white house. Now he says he left campaigning for ago dem ya, the first director of the university of chicagos institute of politics. I am pleased to have the David Axelrod as we look forward to the presidency inraise. Welcome. Thank you, good to be here, charlie. When you go to this inauguration, what are you going to feel . Well, you know, i guess i will feel a little of what i felt when i stood beside the stage in des moines when the president was making his last Campaign Speech this year, late at night on the eve of the election. I will be thinking about the journey that weve taken together. We, you know, i met barack obama 20 years ago. And weve been working together now for ten.
Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. Rose David Axelrod is here, the strategist who lead Barack Obamas two successful president ial campaigns. For year he has got his scores of Top Democrats into office. Also served as a Senior Advisor to the white house. Now he says he left campaigning for ago dem ya, the first director of the university of chicagos institute of politics. I am pleased to have the David Axelrod as we look forward to the presidency inraise. Welcome. Thank you, good to be here, charlie. When you go to this inauguration, what are you going to feel . Well, you know, i guess i will feel a little of what i felt when i stood beside the stage in des moines when the president was making his last Campaign Speech this year, late at night on the eve of the election. I will be thinking about the journey that weve taken together. We, you know, i met barack obama 20 years ago. And weve been working together now for ten.
Ended, katherine stone, who do you on the screen, published her memoirs of which he called the easy life that she, her wealthy slave owning family have led under 1200acre plantation in prewar louisiana. For members of her family, she recalled there was always something going on. Dark. The stone familys life of, again her words, luxurious ease, some 150 enslaved human beings toiled in the plantations cotton and cane fields. Six days a week, week after week, month after month, year after year. The civil wars outbreak in april of 1861 signaled the beginning of the end of the stone familys accustomed wealth and comfort. Katherine was soon confiding to her diary the fighting between north and south infected slaves with the hope of radical change in their condition. They were, therefore, she said, becoming lazy and disobedient, and they were giving a lot of trouble, her words again, generally. And one evening as katherine and her relatives sat on the veranda of their plantation home, someone
Rose welcome to the program. Tonight a conversation about campaigns, politics and the future of the Obama Administration with David Axelrod, the man most responsible for the election of the president in two successive political campaigns. In fact, when we were going over the jokes there was one joke about tim pawlenty, it was poor tim pawlenty, he has such promise except for that unfortunate middle dame bin laden. He said that is so hackneyed, he said in retrospect that is so yesterday. Lets take that out. And then the next night when i heard about the raid, i thought my god, he knew when he was sitting there that he had made this decision. He went and performed a brilliantly that night at the White House Correspondent dinner, not a trace of anxiety, though he must have felt it. And you know that is an important quality in a president of the united states, to be able to make decisions on the basis of the best information you have and live with those decisions. Rose David Axelrod for th