Making a book like this . A. J. i grew up thinking that truman was this man of integrity. But i never really understood the trajectory of this man until i was writing my last book, the arsenal of democracy in. That book there was a book where senator truman goes to detroit to investigate the Car Companies and their failure to produce airplane pieces. It struck me as amazing that should become the most powerful president in the history of the world. Even my last book was done i was beginning in my head to structure this one. Brian in your book to talk about a newest session. What does that mean and what were they . A. J. when you research this book, you end up eating a lot of Peanut Butter sandwiches and going through cheap hotels. You talk about something newest asession. It just means this is a document thats new. And it will list the date when it showed up. So the great truman biographies all came out in the 1990s, right . Anyway, so i knew if i found these documents that they hadnt
Guest i think often times the conventional wisdom is wrong, and the conventional wisdom in money and politics you essentially have good intentioned government officials who who are being influenced or attempts to influence them by corporations or public unions and if we can only figure out a way to seal off essentially these Public Officials from this outside influences, everything would be great and so i call this the Jimmy Stewart mr. Smith goes to washington scenario. And certainly that does happen. You have wellintentioned politicians being tempted by outside forces. But my experience over the last 20 years or so in washington politics researching and writing, more often than not the opposite is true. You have a lot of corporations, other lot of entities that essentially want to be left alone by the federal government, and you have politicians or people in the executive branch who are looking for ways in which to enhance their services or the needs to get corporations involved. The
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Please welcome my friend, ben stein, back to the program. He says president trumps tax reform plan will only benefit corporations and the rich. His latest book is titled the capitalist code. It can save your life and make you very rich. Honored to be here. So i went back to just where you were on trump a couple of years ago. You said and im cleaning this up for Public Television that trump doesnt know blank about economics but then you voted for him. He was not running as Abraham Lincoln or richard nixon. He was running against a woman who i thought was terribly corrupt and lied a lot. I have known her for a long time. She and i were in law School Together at yale and i never really liked her very much. If she had been running against somebody else i would have voted for that person. I never vote for democrats. The guy i liked was Lindsey Graham he was the best on National Defense but he didnt get the nomination
And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Please welcome my friend, ben stein, back to the program. He says president trumps tax reform plan will only benefit corporations and the rich. His latest book is titled the capitalist code. It can save your life and make you very rich. Honored to be here. So i went back to just where you were on trump a couple of years ago. You said and im cleaning this up for Public Television that trump doesnt know blank about economics but then you voted for him. He was not running as Abraham Lincoln or richard nixon. He was running against a woman who i thought was terribly corrupt and lied a lot. I have known her for a long time. She and i were in law School Together at yale and i never really liked her very much. If she had been running against somebody else i would have voted for that person. I never vote for democrats. The guy i liked was Lindsey Graham he was the best on National Defense but he didnt get the nomination
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