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Living in D.C. means having a front-row seat to history as it s written. Recently, that history has been a wild and sometimes scary one to witness.
Inauguration Day 2021 must be one of the strangest held in D.C.: a crowdless, socially distant, virtual ceremony; a city locked down by more than 20,000 National Guard troops; a departing president who refuses to acknowledge his resounding loss during the election and who stokes the flames of conspiracy theories.
on to michigan for a campaign fund-raiser. it is sunday, april 15, normally tax day, but tomorrow is emancipation days of your federal income tax is due on tuesday, april 17. we will focus this morning on taxes and the economy and politics and the situation in north korea. we want to begin on this sunday morning with a focus on former presidents. we want to ask you which former president do you admire the most and tell us why. our phone lines are open you can join the conversation also on our facebook page and you can send us a tweet. we are focusing on former presidents because it is the subject of a new book and a cover story of the latest time magazine. inside the magazine, our question is which former president do you would mire and tell us why and this past week in a rare public event, former president george w. bush was speaking in new york on behalf of the bush institute in which he talked about taxes and the economy and where economic growth primarily comes fro