And with cvs face the nation coanchor of cbss morning and his current role as a 60 minute correspondent he made them one at the journalism gene his mother was a pioneer journalist and pbs first female correspondent. John will be joining conversation tonight by another esteemed authority of the presidency we are so excited to have her here in addition to covering six white house administrations and ten president ial elections and then New York Times bestselling author we can be in more capable hands also including into the chat box thank you for joining us and please tell me to welcome John Dickerson and susan page into your home. It worked. Now he managed to turn our video cameras back on. [laughter] it is such a pleasure thank you for inviting us into your home. John is at his home in new york but it such an honor to be here on the publication date of his wonderful new book. It on are such a wonderful author. Thank you because we have talked about the presidency but thats okay. I will
But i will never know. Simon and schuster is the publisher for mary trumps book, you can watch for her in the near future on booktv. Hi everyone, im Heather Moran and im the ceo of sixth and i. On behalf of our entire team, thank you so much for being here tonight. Sixth and i is a nonprofit and by joining us or supporting us at a time when we been deeply impacted by the loss of income from canceled events. You are helping to lift up authors during a challenging time to write a book. On both accounts, we are very grateful to you. John dickerson has been a longtime friend to sixth and i. We hosted the first live taping of abof which john is cohost during 2009 on weekend of president obamas first inauguration. Since then, john has returned to our stage many times to support our programming. Tonight we are so excited to celebrate him and his fantastic new book which came out today the hardest job in the world. I think its safe to say the office of the president looks a lot different now t
I will start by introducing our guests to give us an overview of the book and then with some comments and me will take it from there to get as many of your questions as possible and then to submit those to the event page or through twitter or facebook or youtube using cato events james monroe distinguished professor at the university of virginia as well as the senior fellow for the study of presidency and one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers and the author of the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is professor of law at harvard and someone who has executive branch from the inside during the high profile extremely tense tenure in the Bush Administration of Legal Counsel during a key early. On the war on terror he is one of the most thoughtful commentators on the modern presidency it looks like the terror presidency and his latest book highly recommended is in hafez shadow on the last inperson Public Events
We thank you for being with us. Thank you, steve. Good to be with you. What surprised you the most in researching this book . Well, you know, in working on the book over the last its hard to know when i started. But in the intensive interviews that started three years ago with people of former president s and ceos id start the interviews with the same question. If you were interviewing a candidate for the presidency like you were doing a Job Interview what questions would you ask . What would the first question be, and i sort of assumed the traditional answers i would get is id ask about character, Decision Making. And one that i got that kept surprising me and kept coming up again and again is whats their ability to build a team, to manage people . Because everybody i talked to or almost everybody anyway was really focused on the idea of how a president puts together a Management Team because the job is though we talk about in campaigns as a single figure in the presidency its reel an
Joining us from new york John Dickerson, his newest book, the hardest job in the world the american presidency. Hes also a correspondent on cbs news. Thank you for being with us. Thank you, steve. What surprised you the most in researching this book . And working on the book over the last, its hard to know when i started pit i either started 30 years ago or ten years ago or three years ago but in the intensive interviews that started three years ago when people including former president s and those who served in the white house ceos of start to question or start all the interviews with the same question. If you were interviewing a candidate for the presidency like you were doing a Job Interview what questions would you ask and what with the first question be and i assumed the traditional answers i would get would be id ask about character or id ask about decisionmaking in the one i got that surprises me that kept coming up again and again was what is their ability to build a team and