i think it s the single most powerful example about how a lifelong friendship can change the course of history. eddie jacobson and harry truman did haberdashery together in kansas city before it failed. but they state best friends as truman rose. but because of their long friendship, the relationship that i think was built on complete trust and candor in the midwesterners. jacobson could fly halfway across the country marked uninvited in the oval office, like in march 1948, and convince the president to meet with someone that he literally refused to meet with, weizmann. a war hero from britain from the first world war. all in an effort to get him to do what he knew in his heart he needed to do, was to was recognize the empathetic independent state of israel. nobody could ve spoke in the way he did, no one as in the cabinet secretary, only someone with an equal relationship with
my first televised interview was with my friend rachel maddow. here is how she introduces playing with fire on her show and our conversation about it at the beginning of my book tour. on the last day of march, 1948 president lyndon johnson gave a speech about vietnam. while he was in the middle of waging that war, he was also running for re-election as president, his campaign was not going well. he gave that address to vietnam, and tacked something unexpected on to the end of that speech. i shall not seek and i will not accept the nomination of my party for another term as your president. thank you for listening. good night and god bless all of you. that revelation in the middle of the democratic primary and a speech about the war had the new