presidents should on nor thhono. you think george h. went to have dinner with mrs. bush and the soldiers on the eve of the persian gulf war. you know, going all the way bark, aba hamlraabraham lincolno war. lyndon johnson went to vietnam in 66 and 1967. one of the threshold expectations of the a president is that you honor our soldiers, especially when are you a war president as donald trump is. he was asked about this or his people were the other day, you know, some of the reasons given were, number one, he doesn t want to be, endanger himself, number three, he may disagree with the war. barack obama went there, tow he was not the biggest champions at the beginning of the wars in iraq and afghanistan. those things can be
said over and over again that the journalists are the enemies of the people, especially in the wake of that atrocity in turkey, what happened to the journalist in istanbul was not the right time. how do you explain the president s timing? i think you re right. the fact that jamal khashoggi was apparently murdered at the consulate in istanbul, a contributor to the washington post, somewhat a resident of the united states, a saudi citizen, and all the of a sudden a president is body-saleming a journalist. he got a great response, but you know, donald trump is a war president, just as lincoln was and franklin roosevelt was. what a war president does is unite the country the way he can. your book, presidents of war talk about this president, is he a president of war? does he see himself as a
his surprised he became so religious. lincoln said i don t know how you could get through the traumas of war without being religious. lady bird johnson told me during the days of the vietnam war, she thought her husband might become a catholic. did fdr in effect give his body, his life to the war effort and coming out the other side? he absolutely did. the last couple of years of world war ii franklin roosevelt was suffered from advanced cardiovascular disease that got worse and worse and the result was that he died early had he not been a war president probably wouldn t have happened. same thing with woodrow wilson who sufed a stroke a year and a half before the end of his presidency was almost entirely paralyzed and unable to function. these war presidents do not go through this experience without an enormous cost. i know this book has to come to an end and i m sad about that
body, his life to the war effort and coming out the other side? he absolutely did. the last couple years at world war ii franklin roosevelt was suffering from advanced card cardiovascular disease that got worse and worse and the result was that he died early had he not been a war president probably wouldn t have happened. same thing with woodro wilson who suffered a stroke a year and a half before the end of his presidency was almost entirely paralyzed and unable to function. these war presidents do not go through this experience without an enormous cost. i know this book has to come to an end and i m sad about that part but this topic doesn t. we leave off with this new nature of war that we re in. one of them we really can t see, the war against terrorism. and the other, our longest now in history still going on tonight with the brave souls,
way that will save lives and i ll do it, he has done it several times to great success. maria: look at how the world changed. you made point, north korea, syria, russia. china. is he going to be a war president? that would be a big red line for president trump. he ran on not getting involved in middle eastern wars, and bombing isis and putting an end to them, those two goals might be in conflict. i think if he becomes a war president that will betray what he ran on. critical thing, we have a serious ally in south korea. and threat it to south korea not the threat to you know. that north koreans can talk about all of the time attacking us, they can t get to us but they can get to south korea. we have a very personally there, to be careful of, but i think that show of strength, that bomb sat there for two years, you didn t need that bomb to blow up