Journalists peter baker and Susan Glasser on the brandnew book on james baker, the life and times of james baker. Iner baker, no relation come Susan Glasser, welcome to washington journal. Let me start with a question about the idea of doing this book on james baker. This obviously predates the 2020 election, but this is earlier than 2016 correct . Visualize thenot rise of donald trump in the transformation of the Republican Party we started this book back in the obama era. We had a sense that baker was a character who would help us to write a big story about washington as well has as well as his own personal story. From watergaten to the end of the cold war and james baker is in the middle of that. Host was an easy prey . Did he easily agreed to be interviewed for the book project . Wast at this point, he willing and ready for some of the l2 write a biography about him. Some ready for amebody else to write biography about him. He was open and cooperative. He didnt put anything off bal
About the potential challenge to the election coming up. And go through the various permutations and possibilities of things that could happen if there is uncertainty about the outcome. They are bob bauer, a distinguished scholar and resident at in my you scroll while. He is now on leave as the Senior Advisor to the biden president ial campaign. Veteranberg, a republican lawless trinity, now a cnn commentator. I would like to recognize one of our special guests today, ambassadors of singapore and sweden and chile and the european union. I would like to recognize our sponsors, our title sponsors, bank of america. Thank you. Our emerging leaders sponsors. Recognizeuld like to see miss usa and the ceo. Siemens usa, thank you for your emerging Leadership Events a few upcoming that some of you probably know about already. Let me remind you, on november 18, at 10 00 a. M. , we will have an event with determent and ceo of johnson and johnson, as you all probably know, johnson and one of the c
Im Judy Woodruff and im thrilled to be joining the three amazing authors today. You can see them on the screen. They are George Packer whose latest book the man who ran washington Richard Holbrooke and the man who ran washington and the life and times of james a. Baker, iii. Two brilliant books about two complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930 and holbrooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer, holbrooke a democrat Foreign Service officers student of Foreign Policy. Their lives are very different and they are project trees but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter, picking up on that this is a man with great ambition and i was there even before he came to washington. Yeah it was. He was a family of aristocracy. His family built modern houston and he was expected to do great things. A very dominating father who is in part done him the legacy of his family. One thing they were
Republican lawless trinity, now a cnn commentator. I would like to recognize one of our special guests today, ambassadors of singapore and sweden and chile and the european union. I would like to recognize our sponsors, our title sponsors, bank of america. Thank you. Our emerging leaders sponsors. Recognizeuld like to see miss usa and the ceo. Siemens usa, thank you for your emerging Leadership Events a few upcoming that some of you probably know about already. Let me remind you, on november 18, at 10 00 a. M. , we will have an event with determent and ceo of johnson and johnson, as you all probably know, johnson and one of the companies is working on a vaccine. I think that he will have interesting things to say about that. He is a very impressive person. I believe that people will really enjoy that carbonation. I will also have a conversation with another impressive person on december 9 at 12 00 p. M. I will speak with a member of the Economic Club board for some time. We are very mu
Than 2016 correct . Visualize thenot rise of donald trump in the transformation of the Republican Party we started this book back in the obama era. We had a sense that baker was a character who would help us to write a big story about washington as well has as well as his own personal story. From watergaten to the end of the cold war and james baker is in the middle of that. Host was an easy prey . Did he easily agreed to be interviewed for the book project . Wast at this point, he willing and ready for some of the l2 write a biography about him. Some ready for amebody else to write biography about him. He was open and cooperative. He didnt put anything off balance. He was very generous with us. Host what was it about him personally and about his stellar career in washington and before that that initially you to talk to him . Guest i think we realized we were delighted to realize that no one had done an independent book of history about him. When you think about it, baker has a unique