a shy boy who grew up in alabama, overcame polio, was i inspired by henry clay at the university of louisville to become a senator, did, then set out to become the majority leader of the united states is sin and did. but have a confession to make. when i was asked asked to do this, here is what i thought. how could anyone get mitch mcconnell to talk for an hour?oo because you in your own but you point i joy speak to the press when it is to your advantage. you talk but time when bill gates came in to see you and the two of you just sat there. people in uncouple waiting for when you speak and someone was told president george w. bush that you are excited over a certain vote and he said really? how can you tell? why so few words? guest: well, i m not afraid to talk but i found i learned a lot more by listening. so for a startup by listening, think about what i want to say before i do it. i think it s fair to say that in the arab trump probably very different in my approach to
Good evening. Im larry temple. As chairman of the lbj foundation, its my true privilege to welcome all of you to this program tonight. I happen to think that the lbj library has set a pattern or is setting a pattern. Three weeks ago we had two stars on this stage; bob schieffer, moderation, in conversation with former secretary of state madeleine albright. Well, tonight weve got two more stars on this stage, john avlon and Mark Updegrove. Johnjohn avlon is a true risingr in this country in the media and journalism world. John got his start as a speech writer for Rudy Giuliani both when he was mayor of new york and later as a president ial candidate. John avlon today is the editorinchief and managing director of the daily beast, but hes way more than that. He is a very active writer in this country. Every major magazine has seen one of his pieces. Moreover, hes on television all the time. You can look at cnn, you look at msnbc, you can look at pbs, you can look at cspan, and youll see j
Million, but 11 are or very special because he developed an intimate relationship with every president many modern time going back to harry truman. And with us today to talk about this book is Michael Duffy who is a veteran reporter with Time Magazine. He is known in this town as the ultimate insider. He is the reporter who knows the back story on the big story. He is a man who is very well sourced and has a reputation in time for being selfeffacing, very witty and a man who would sit with his coauthor, nancy gibbs, in the bureau and come up with these astounding cover stories, more than 100 of them to their credit, in a mysterious process that no one else quite understands. [laughter] so i want to get to that in a minute, but first, welcome to the show. Welcome to after words, michael, and let me ask you many books, scores of books have been written about billy graham but none that have focused on his relationship with the president s in quite this way. How did you get this idea, whyd
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