You want to introduce me first . This is david talbot and i am patrick marks, my little shop, you have probably been here, maybe not, we just celebrated seven years here. David has been a part of it. David was born in los angeles. In a log cabin. Be fitting imagine, we dont know what year that was. His father was an amazing heartthrob and an actor and according to his sister margaret who wrote this book, the entertainer, quite a guy and quite a family and is brother steve is also a real interesting guy, fantastic documentary videomaker, very well known for doing the front line series and also to the baby boomers he was known as gilbert john leave it to beaver. We were a sitcom family. Host he worked in the heyday for crosser daddy. I remember. Guest the great rock and roll magazine. Host you probably know Rolling Stone and editor of mother jones. And interviewed david for this book the devils chessboard and at the examiner, he was one of the first people to say oh my god the internet e
Jeff spent 13 years at the washington post. Im not sure that is where you learn how to write well but that is certainly where you learn how to get a good story and by the end he was running the outlook section and then he went to the new yorker and was a Senior Editor there for nearly 13 years and that is a place where you learn to write well and help others write well. Besides writing nonfiction, jeff has written three, four, i guess four works of fiction. So this is someone who understands the importance of narrative and of a good story. He brought those talents, for some reason, to the relationship between eisenhower and nixon and i want to begin by asking you, jeff, why did you choose that particular marriage . Because as to be focus of this because it was really a great story. 2 began with two people who really doesnt know each other. One was American Hero of sort we dont have anymore. Fivestar generals, no more fivestar generals. The man credited to leading allies to victory in e
Statewide numbers add up. If youre philly and your vote this is like some guy living in the suburbs where the vote is more important. You live in a big city never lived in a state that really was a close call. I guess the saying about florida . Only three kind of people down here, those who vote, those who count and those who cant count. Stupid joke. [laughter] always had a different number. Always say, this thing called im sorry. Gore. Hi, chris. Quick question, i guess, the last one. Im a big fan of worldwide government, and what . Worldwide government. Federal recallism. Just a different government in Different Countries around the world, whether it be in israel, china, different places, watching their government work. I always think of that my career, ending gold to travel around the worldful see how democracy is doing in different cubs. The thing that confuses me about america is the twoparty system. Do you think well get to the place without a twoparty system . It will be like in
Presidency, next. Funding for charlie rose is provided by the following. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We have got to go a better job of getting across that is america is freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise, and freedom is special and rare. It is fragile, it needs protection. Rose on this president s day we celebrate George Washingtons birthday and u. S. President s past and present, here are some of the enduring words from our countrys leaders through history. The great fundamental issue now before our people, if the American People can govern themselves, to rule and control themselves, i believe they are, my opponents do not. First of all, let me assert my and so my fellow americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you ca can cor your can do for your country. [ applause ] now our generation of americans has been called on to continue the unending search for jus
Presidency, next. Funding for charlie rose is provided by the following. Captioning sponsored by Rose Communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. We have got to go a better job of getting across that is america is freedom, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise, and freedom is special and rare. It is fragile, it needs protection. Rose on this president s day we celebrate George Washingtons birthday and u. S. President s past and present, here are some of the enduring words from our countrys leaders through history. The great fundamental issue now before our people, if the American People can govern themselves, to rule and control themselves, i believe they are, my opponents do not. First of all, let me assert my and so my fellow americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you ca can cor your can do for your country. [ applause ] now our generation of americans has been called on to continue the unending search for jus