Half a century in the service of our country, i shall lay down the responsibilities of office as in traditional and solemn ceremony the authority of the presidency is vested in my successor. We now stand ten years past the midpoint of the century that has witnessed four major wars among great nations. Three of these involve our own country. Despite these holocausts, america is today the strongest, the most influential and most productive nation in the world. In the councils of government we must guard against unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought by the military Industrial Complex. The misplaced power will persist. Lets bring in evan turner, hes author of one of my favorite ike books and thats saying a lot. I love reading about ike. It was ikes bluff, the secret battle to save the world. Evan, we might we had steve inscape on talking about when a president leaves office often things change very quickly. I was giving the example of dr. Brzezinski had a red phone in his house
Writers, i wasnt sure where were going to go this morning, but it strike mess that Thomas Jefferson and the election of 1800, what followed after that, makes perfect sense because both of you have written eloquently about it. And tom ricks, let me start with you, because we were just talking about it yesterday. Some of the parallels between 1801 and 2021. As long as were talking about southern politics, i used to be a reporter in georgia and i remember there was a senator who famously was asked about all of the people moving from south georgia to north florida. He said, i expected a little improvement in intelligence in both states. There you go. The election of 1800, it was a real parallel here, which is that john adams was our first oneterm president. He was a crank, he was quite bitter about being turned out of office. He saw it as a demotion and a rejection by the American People. The first person ever to not get reelected to the presidency and even more he had to turn the power ov
0 hands of terrorists. how could i have ever suspected that somebody might be usually you re so on target. when there s fbi most wanted suspects saying, please, keep your system the same so we can kill more americans. i never saw that coming. character s a journey. we ll help you along. that s what i was thinking. i read that in american freak show years ago. so for anybody accusing you of sort of things, bottom line is, this is a reality. a reality. let s see what the reality is in the rest of america. republican senator jeff flake of arizona. he s very popular guy. he had a 40 70% approval rating as a congressman forever. minus 19 net approval rating. what? that makes him the poll s least popular sitting senator. what happened? the poll s least popular sitting senator. he lost eclipses minority leader mitch mcconnell. he lost 19 points. asked to donate money and get politically organized whether this sticks and whether they pay a price or peo
sequester? a few hours after voting, members left capitol hill and headed to the airport for a week long recess. oh, right. oh, right. because it s the problem from the sequester that affects them. they don t care about meals on wheels unless it s rolling down an aisle. good morning. 6:00 on the east coast, it s thursday, april oh, my gosh, it s tuesday only. it s only tuesday. are you kidding me? april 30th. i get home yesterday thinking it was friday. no, it s definitely thursday. my 9-year-old daughter, i swear, she says, is today friday, daddy? no. i said, no, come on. tuesday. it s going to be a long week. welcome to morning joe. it is a big day, though. and you ve got the reason why. with us onset we have historian and author of thomas jefferson jon meacham. holding the book. the book. by the president of council of foreign relations, richard haass. with the same tie. different tie. the case for putting america s house in order is out tod