Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the night tv studio, another edition of our program. As the 2020 president ial election, starts to invade our daily news feed, and with joe biden feeling the fire this week. What better time to look back at the history of the presidency, and looking at the character and dignity of the man holding the office. The title tells it all of our book, youll be hearing from susans wayne soon, who will discuss how her book came together, based on the historian survey of president ial leadership. Following the presentation, i have the distinct privilege of speaking with brian lam, the chairman of cspan, who over the course of many years conducted the interviews, with president ial historians that make up the content of the book, and we are also joined today by historians can ackerman, and David Stewart who have both contributed to the book. At this time please welcome susans wayne. Hello nice to see you, we have a long long friendship and relationsh
Reynolds is coeditor of the kremlin letters, stalins wartime correspondence with churchill and roosevelt. He talks about the messages sent between the leaders and explain how they used the communication to build relationships with one another and advance wartime goals without extensive bureaucratic interference. The National World War Ii Museum hosted this event in january,. 20. January, 2020. Tonight, it is my privilege to introduce the speaker dr. David reynolds. se of the United Kingdom most distinguished scholars, but i think that is probably selling them short. A fellow of christ college, cambridge, he studied at cambridge in harvard aiversitys and has been visitor to these shores since first coming year as a graduate student in 1973. David is the author of 12 books, he doesnt let the grass grow under his feet. Those include in command of history churchill fighting and writing the second world war, a book he wrote in 2004 that is shelf. Umbed on my ive decided to maybe thousands o
[applause]. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the newseums night tv studio and another edition of inside media. I am the director of programs here at the museum. As the 2020 residential election rapidly starts to invade our daily newsfeed, and with joe bidens announcement fueling the fire this week, what better time to look back at the history of the presidency and to examine the character and dignity of the men who have held the office . We dive in deep to that topic today, as we discuss the new cspan book, the president s, noted historians rank americas best and worst chief executives. The title tells it all and just a moment, you will be hearing from susan swain, the coceo of , who will discuss how the book came together based on its historians survey of leadership. Following susans presentation, i have the distinct privilege of speaking with brian lamb, founding ceo and chairman of cspan, who over the course of many years conducted the , interviews with president
Greetings. Its a pleasure to see you all here. Its always great to see probably all are familiar faces. We saw most of you in november and hope to see most of you again in november and in between in september for our memory conference. Stephen had said unfortunately dr. Stoler tried his best. Slipped on the way and caught his balance. All three flights from burlington, vermont were cancelled to get him here yesterday. While we are disappointed, he is even more disappointed that he couldnt make it back down here and present. But i can tell you that we are very fortunate in this great city to have one of the leading scholars in this field here to fill the breach. And enlighten us with the first panel of the day. He has been a friend since before we had a building. Not just a hotel, but an actual museum. He goes back with nick mueller and Stephen Ambrose all the way to the early days as a master Student Affairs and then went to harvard to obtain his phd and then came back home to join the
Book tv recently visited capitol hill and asked husband jim bank about his reading list. This summer i have a very ambitious reading list. Currently im finishing a wellknown book by Stephen Ambrose on the day, a couple of weeks ago i went to the 75th anniversary of dday and im about finished with the book but going there and seeing firsthand what happened there 75 years ago our heroes, the greatest generation, the world war ii veterans who stormed the beaches of normandy and to read the book firsthand and learn more about it, its overwhelming to imagine what they went through. Im also reading seapower. Which just went in paperback. I am a Navy Reserve Officer and have been a champion of bigger, Stronger Navy force posture in this to modulus and dangerous world that we live in today and i just picked up past carters new book, former secretary of defense, two of the best military history books that ive read in recent years have been both secretary panetta secretary aces books. And now i