Alfred zacher presents his thoughts on why some president to succeed while others feel during their second terms in office. This is about 45 minutes. The afternoon and appreciate you being here for less event this event that we can credit cspan2 for being here. We are familiar with the faces phase past is prologue which is amazing on the wall of the national archives. We have heard the phrase history does not repeat itself, it rhymes. This afternoon with your assistance, i will attempt to apply the prologue to the history of the second term but i simply do not understand history writing so that one will not be ignored. We are once again facing the challenge selecting our president when the winner is too close to call. We do not expect to witness an election won by a landslide. Some will look lonely on the times when one candidate dominated the political theme. Lyndon johnson nearly beat Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon overwhelming george mcgovern. In each of those elections on of the
And prepares the criteria and the results. Fourscore and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth onto this continent a new nation with liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and it was those words Abraham Lincoln and the battlefield not far from where we sit today and the brilliance of those words, were not necessarily recognized at the time. In fact lincoln was on the featured speaker and it was actually Edward Everett senator from massachusetts and spoke for two hours lincoln waited to give the poignant closing words and today of course we recognize the gettysburg address is perhaps the greatest moment of president speech in history. And people didnt necessarily see the speech that way at the time he was not the speech or speaker in front of fact that lincolns greatness will not recognize at the time in general. You have to remember that when lincoln became president , he had on certain Public Office for ten years. Country style address and his
And prepares the criteria and the results. Fourscore and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth onto this continent a new nation with liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and it was those words Abraham Lincoln and the battlefield not far from where we sit today and the brilliance of those words, were not necessarily recognized at the time. In fact lincoln was on the featured speaker and it was actually Edward Everett senator from massachusetts and spoke for two hours lincoln waited to give the poignant closing words and today of course we recognize the gettysburg address is perhaps the greatest moment of president speech in history. And people didnt necessarily see the speech that way at the time he was not the speech or speaker in front of fact that lincolns greatness will not recognize at the time in general. You have to remember that when lincoln became president , he had on certain Public Office for ten years. Country style address and his
And prepares the criteria and the results. Fourscore and seven years ago our forefathers brought forth on nation with liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal and it was those words Abraham Lincoln and the battlefield not far from where we sit today and the brilliance of those words, were not necessarily recognized at the time. In fact lincoln was on the featured speaker and it was actually Edward Everett senator from massachusetts and spoke for two hours lincoln waited to give the poignant closing words and today of course we recognize the gettysburg address is perhaps the greatest moment of president speech in history. And people didnt necessarily see the speech that way at the time he was not the speech or speaker in front of fact that lincolns greatness will not recognize at the time in general. You have to remember that when lincoln became president , he had on certain Public Office for ten years. Country style address and his mannerisms and his self
Committee is saying, dont you know theres an election and i say i have cleared these names in the white house and anyway, all my guys did just terrific. They were confident, they were competent, even some of the people who had objected called and said we love you guys and jim was the secretary and he later became our ambassador of japan and he went over, he was president of northwestern university. Sophia had ruled all of these people out because they were registered democrats, i would not have had the confidence. Im not saying that i shouldnt have asked the question. But anyway. If you have competent people, they are going to do much better than if you dont. The first job is to form your team and give people who are competent. If something happens that is surprisingly good to my would like ted know about that, too. We can learn from those things. You have got to give people leaders and objectives and hold accountable. Accountability is very important. Economics or governmental systems