Biography for the series of books on the president. I said arthur, i dont have time. Im retired. And he said i want you to do one thing. Allen evans have done a paper back that excerpts his diary, his president ial diary. Just take the weekend and read it and tell me no. And i read the excerpts from the diary and i couldnt say no. I was fascinated by the man. Did you know much about him. I knew he was a tennesseean and im a tennesseean. I knew that his grave is behind the capitol. There is no marker in nashville except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. His old homeplace in columbia is preserved and i had been there many times and have been there since. But i knew virtually nothing about him and almost nothing that was good. His reputation was the result of what was to him during his presidency over the mexicanamerican war. Left him a bad reputation. A reputation as a warmonger. And the attacks on him in congress in the latter days of his administration reminded me a great dea
John seigenthaler, author of james k. Polk, howd they talk you into doing a biography on this president . John seigenthaler sr. Arthur schlesinger called me on the phone and said, youre a tennessean. Polk was a tennessean. Why dont you write a biography for this series that times books is doing on the president s . And i said, arthur, i dont have time. Im retired. He said, i want you to do one thing. He said, alan nevins ph has done a paperback that excerpts his diary, his president ial diary. Just take the weekend and read it and tell me no. And i read the excerpts from the diary, and i couldnt say no. I was fascinated by the man. Did you know much about him before you started on this . You know, i knew he was a tennessean. Im a tennessean. I knew that his grave is behind the capitol. There is no marker in nashville, except a plaque on the side of a dirty motel wall. His old home place in columbia is preserved, and id been there many times and have been there since. But i knew virtual
A virtual audience this year and a lot. Of as welcome corona virus infections confirmed worldwide have now passed 1500000 with the death toll approaching 90000 some countries hope the worst may soon be over after seeing sustained drops in new cases but others are seeing fresh outbreaks hungary has discovered more than 100 infections at a senior cas center in the capital city budapest russia has seen a record daily spike in confirmed virus cases nearly 1500 new infections spains Prime Minister says the country may be nearing the peak of its epidemic lawmakers there are set to vote on extending lockdown measures by another 2 weeks and in germany the death toll climb past 2100 today while the number of confirmed infections as risen to more than 108000. Those figures roughly equal to a death rate of 1. 9 percent which is remarkably low in comparison to other western nations the german anomaly has puzzled scientists among the answers the high number of tests carried out and the country is a
A listen that we cant lose our whole country we were having an economic collapse im also a Small Businessman i understand it and i talk with Business People all d the time tucker and and so just my heart is lifted tonight by what i heard the president say basically saying. This disease could take your life but thats not the scariest thing to you theres something that would be worse than dying. Yeah. But dont be fooled my friend those are the words of my self sacrificing brave man those are the words of a zealot a cultist if you will as former f. B. I. Special agent ali soufan tweeted in response i dealt with suicidal cults before i encountered people who are willing to die for their faith ideology race except for but i have never encountered anyone who is willing to die for someone elses for a one k. This is all new level of craziness so as our leaders appear to be seriously considering once again to put profits over people as they try to convince you and i to make the ultimate sacrifi
And the hollywood Film Producer Harvey Weinstein is led to jail in handcuffs after being found guilty of Sexual Assault and rape charges. More coronavirus deaths in china and a sharp rise in infections far beyond the stoking fears that the global spread of the outbreak is entering a new stage stock markets to fall in on worries the epidemic will have a lasting Economic Impact at least 10 people have died in south korea with or almost 900 confirmed cases u. S. Forces there are considering scaling back military exercises iran has confirmed 15 deaths while bahrain kuwait iraq a man and afghanistan have all reported infections the authorities in italy have sealed off the worst affected towns in the north 7 people have died there and more than 200. Are infected the highest concentration outside asia as for china numbers of new infections in areas outside who bay province off for ling however there have been another 71 deaths mostly in the viral epicenter live now to hong kong and our corres