250 years. That undeniable greatness was driven by personality, character and capacity but largely by circumstance. And the circumstance was nation crumbling crises. Which is why i argue in the book quite provocatively is you dont want another great president because if you have one rose you have another great crises. Exactly. Rose we conclude this evening with Russell James, a photographer. Beauty has changed, ive developed it, i lived life spending time in haiti and taking portraits of people down there. I say it with complete honesty but when im photographing a person albeit an elder member of the tribe theres a beauty about the photograph. Its the strangest thing but its so careful and engaging when youre in it. I get lost in that money. Rose Michael Lewis, Aaron David Miller and Russell James when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose is provided by the following rose additional funding made possible by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services
Driven by personality, character and capacity but largely by circumstance. And the circumstance was nation crumbling crises. Which is why i argue in the book quite provocatively is you dont want another great president because if you have one rose you have another great crises. Exactly. Rose we conclude this evening with Russell James, a photographer. Beauty has changed, ive developed it, i lived life spending time in haiti and taking portraits of people down there. I say it with complete honesty but when im photographing a person albeit an elder member of the tribe theres a beauty about the photograph. Its the strangest thing but its so careful and engaging when youre in it. I get lost in that money. Rose Michael Lewis, Aaron David Miller and Russell James when we continue. Rose funding for charlie rose is provided by the following rose additional funding made possible by and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and Information Services worldwide. Captioning sponsored by Rose C
On march 4th, 1909, republican William Howard taft was sworn in as the 27th president of the United States of america. Hed been solicitor general and a successful secretary of war for four years. An obvious choice. But theres a problem. Taft doesnt want to be president. Taft is not really a politician. In fact, taft admitted to his wife that he hated politics. Taft is a very figure himself but hes a lawyer and had been a judge and really his greatest ambition was never to be president. It was to be Supreme Court justice. Two people that pushed taft in the running for the top job. One was his wife nelly. She visited the white house as a teenager, and like most people who visit the white house, she was very taken with it. She said i want to marry a man who will be president and she was constantly urging him to do the things to make it possible for him to be president. The other person who wanted taft in the oval office was his predecessor as president , his close friend, colleague and me
On march 4th, 1909, republican William Howard taft was sworn in as the 27th president of the United States of america. Hed been solicitor general and a successful secretary of war for four years. An obvious choice. But theres a problem. Taft doesnt want to be president. Taft is not really a politician. In fact, taft admitted to his wife he hated politics. Taft is a very figure but hes a lawyer and had been a judge and really his greatest ambition was never to be president. It was to be Supreme Court justice. Two people that pushed taft in the running for the top job. One was his wife nelly. She visited the white house as a teenager and like most people she was very taken with it. She said i want to marry a man who will be president and she was constantly urging him to do the things to make it possible for him to be president. The other person who wanted taft in the oval office was his predecessor as president , his close friend, colleague and mentor, Theodore Roosevelt. They had been v