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Stateside s conversation with Gleaves Whitney
After this unprecedented week of political violence fueled by President Trump himself, followed by a flood of resignations from his own top cabinet members, how will history remember the final days of the Trump presidency? Presidential historian
Gleaves Whitney was the long-time director of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University, and now serves as the Executive Director of the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Foundation.
“I have never seen anything quite like what we saw on Wednesday in all of my study of history,” Whitney said.
As a historian, Whitney thinks about how events will be written in history and what conclusions will arise from these events. He explained that the storming of the Capitol building will be monumental in America’s history.