This is all a big part of it. The problem with kennedy will be it is cut off so soon. We very rarely take a president as seriously as the others who has only served one term and heres a president who didnt even serve one term. You look at what footprints, what a mark he left on our sense of who we are. Host one of the interesting parts to me about the books on johnson by robert caro, it is interesting you really have to look at the kennedy presidency, because johnson, who might not have been inclined to be so ideologically attuned with his predecessor really took the predecessors agenda to heart and it became his guest yes indeed. Host in many respects johnson did things he couldnt have done. Host guest hard to find two men more difference. When you say you interviewed 11 president s. 7 or 6 or Something Like that. I have gotten to know the research they have done, what strikes me as different from one another, really different, jimmy carter, George Hw Bush and bill clinton, some of th
Was published in 2019. And now im book tv for highlighting programs from our archives with Pulitzer Prizewinning historian David Mccullough. Over the past 20 years he has appeared on book tv more than 50 times. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org. You can use the search function at the top of the page. First , 92 on cspan book notes program, David Mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Heres a portion of that interview. Attempted assassination number of president s have already been assassinated. Why would the government at that time have protection for them . It wasnt done. Why would the government have a pension . Their pensions for Army Officers and pensions for everybody else but no pension for president. In fact to very little money. Had to borrow some money quite se
Highlighting programs from our archives with Pulitzer Prizewinning historian David Mccullough. Over the past 20 years he has appeared on book tv more than 50 times. All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org. You can use the search function at the top of the page. First , 92 on cspan book notes program, David Mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Heres a portion of that interview. Attempted assassination number of president s have already been assassinated. Why would the government at that time have protection for them . It wasnt done. Why would the government have a pension . Their pensions for Army Officers and pensions for everybody else but no pension for president. In fact to very little money. Had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean atchison cosine, to pay for
Book notes Program David mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman the book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and instrumental in changing attitude about the truman presidency. Heres a portion of the interview. The number of president s that were already assassinated why would the government have protections for them. It was not done i wouldve the government have a pension they were pensions of Army Officers and everybody else but no pension for the president he had very little money he had to borrow some money, quite secretly which dean cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown and it doesnt mean he didnt have money he did have money but he needed cash to cover the expenses of moving out of the white house and when he got home in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, his memoirs which no other president has done except for herbert hoover, herberts time in office was briefer than trumans and
All of the programs are about to see can be viewed in their entirety by visiting our website booktv. Org. You can use the search function at the top of the page. First , 92 on cspan book notes program, David Mccullough discussed his biography of president harry truman. The book was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for biography and was instrumental in changing attitudes about the truman presidency. Heres a portion of that interview. Attempted assassination number of president s have already been assassinated. Why would the government at that time have protection for them . It wasnt done. Why would the government have a pension . Their pensions for Army Officers and pensions for everybody else but no pension for president. In fact to very little money. Had to borrow some money quite secretly which dean atchison cosine, to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown. It does not mean he did not have any money printed have money but he needed some cash to cover all the expenses of moving