If. Youre more likely to walk free if youre rich and guilty. Or else. Youve got 2 eyes and ears in one now. So you should be seen here and a whole lot more than youre saying if you dont take that advice easy going to dig yourself all. Agreeing. With spurs and accusations were buzzing like a murder or not snacking on the honey bee this week here in washington d. C. Afternoons of yet another scandal involving the brand name in chief u. S. President donald trump yes the scandal was revealed to us all late tuesday apparently and my friends what a scandal it is the New York Times reporting that the Justice Department has been investigating whether intermediaries for a federal convict offered white house officials a bribe in exchange for a pardon or commutation from President Trump yeah. That is juicy the possibility that a sitting u. S. President or at least some members of his team may be in the business of taking cold hard cash in exchange for Services Rendered in this case handing out a
Susan Harold Holzers is our second hour about your new book the president s versus press. While i invite people to find the first hour, for those who havent seen it, whats that the jist of your new book . Mr. Holzer the thesis is we may believe we are living through the most chaotic and unpleasant confrontational era ever between a president and the media. But in fact, its a long tradition in American Government and American Media history that president s and the press do not share the same interests and have been out war, and a sense, ever since george washington. Susan from the time you started this project, was it always it versus the press . Mr. Holzer im glad you asked. No. Originally it was the president s and the press. In my research about president kennedy, i found that he gave a very defensive speech in 1961 for the American Publishers Association in new york city. And during the speech he said, i wanted to call this speech the president versus the press because you are not a
Eberhardt from the friendly d roosevelt president ial library and clay bauske of the president truman president ial library talk about the factors that led to the remaking of their museums and the thought that goes into overhauling their exhibits. The two discuss what their job as curators entail. The fdr president ial library hosted the conversation and provided video. The am Herman Eberhardt at franklin was of a president ial library and museum and i want to welcome you to a new series of programs featuring conversations between me and curators at other president ial libraries. In this series we will explore the various jobs and roles of museum curators. Today we will be talking about one of the most important and complicated jobs of a curator, developing new Museum Exhibits. Curators are responsible for providing new changing exhibits on special topics on a regular basis in their museums. They also make periodic alterations to the museums larger permanent exhibits to reflect changin
Susan Harold Holzers is our second hour about your new book the president s versus press. Susan from the time you started this project, was it always it versus the press . Mr. Holzer im glad you asked. No. Originally it was the president s and the press. In my research about president kennedy, i found that he gave a very defensive speech in 1961 for the American Publishers Association in new york city. And during the speech he said, i wanted to call this speech the president versus the press because you are not always living up to your responsibility to protect the american interest. And i have to be talked down so i could call up the president. So i will call it the president s and the press. But i like the first version better, he put it all out on the says ourkennedy interest and theirs are. Ncompatible sto susan is that why he also earned the photo on your cover . Mr. Holzer well, i went back and forth on that and did my andul editor in team team. There is a great shot of Lyndon Jo
They gavel it is session saturday morning and ten eastern. Watch the debate live on cspan good evening. Every saturday night throughout the summer, book tv is putting on several hours of a wellknown author. Kind of hard twisted on binge watching. Tonight teacherg author is historian David Mccullough for it is author of a dozen books including bestselling histories, on the american revolutions, and the invention of mans spacefligh for some ofe Northwest Territory in the creation of the brooklyn bridge. Hes a two time winner about Pulitzer Prize and the National Book of board and his appearance he over 75 times. And coming up over the next several hours, we will show you some of those programs. S. First up in 1992, they appear on cspans program to talk about his biography of president harry truman. The book won thepr pulitzer prie biography would have changed the view on the truman presidency. Here is David Mccullough from 1992. You start out by saying im a as far back as nearly as he co