Today is International Holocaust remembrance day. 76 years ago soviet troops liberated the auschwitz camp complex including its killing center. And people around the world pause today on the somber anniversary to honor the memory of europes jews whom the nazis and their collaborators attempted to annihilate. Its a day to remember the warnings of the holocaust era and to defend the historical record now more than ever as we have fewer and fewer eyewitnesses to these events. Please join me in welcoming todays guest. Susan eisenhower, good morning, susan. Its a pleasure to be with you today and thank you for the opportunity and also the the honor of presenting today for the International Holocaust remembrance day. Its an honor to have you. For those of you who are not familiar with susan she is an accomplished scholar whos most recent book is titled. How ike led the principles behind eisenhowers biggest decisions. You may be familiar or you are likely familiar with susans grandfather dwig
Major battles its its weird. It seems weird that the man that studied all this who ended up leading an allied army of multiple nations of over 5 million men. Would be the person who would. Be such a large advocate for pete. And that was just a few decades later. Well his foundations for this is starts in abilene and actually for the majority of his life. He was always reading observing listening and learning from other people in those around him. And late the lessons he gained over time they built and compounded on each other. And they created a person who understood that that peace. Is not a lasting piece is not the normal state of humanity yet is the most desirable. I learned several lessons about diplomacy from his boyhood time in abilene. His first lesson in a lot of these stories she can read about them in his book at ease which gives some of the best detail of his life as a young boy growing up up and up until hes a president. He mentioned that allies are always needed. And he le
1969 and 1986 when the chief justice was the nixon appointed Warren Burger received wisdom as we were just discussing at the desk about this period in the courts history. Isnt that much happened . There was some big decisions. There was roe v wade, so that was good and that that was it. Not not so much greenhouse takes the idea part and she and her coauthor Michael Gratz show the ways that the conservative mainly nixon appointed burger Court Reversed or undercut the president sat by the liberal court led by chief Justice Warren curbing civil rights and individual liberties while extending first demand that rights to businesses the first time. I could draw some connections here, but youre not actually here to listen to me talk about the court. Youre here for linda greenhouse. So please join me in welcoming her to politics. Thank you. Its really a treat to be back here. Ive been here for a couple of the other books you heard about and this is my first actual book talk with this book whic
Sponsored by wells fargo. I am Judy Woodruff and i am thrilled to be joining these three amazing authors today. You see them on the screen. They are George Packer whose latest book our man Richard Holbrooke and the end of the american century, and Susan Glasser and peter baker whose book just out this fall, the man who ran washington the life and times of james a. Baker iii. Two brilliant books about two complicated and fascinating man. They were born a decade apart. Baker in houston in 1930. Holbrooke in manhattan in 1941. 1941. Baker of republican trained as a lawyer. Holbrooke a democrat Foreign Service officer, student of Foreign Policy. Their lives took very different trajectories but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Peter, picking up on that, this is a man with great ambition and it was there before he came to washington. It was. He was part of the houston of he was of the family houston aristocracy. Expected to do great things. He had a dom
About the idea of doing this book on james baker. This obviously predates the 2020 election, but this is earlier than 2016 correct . Visualize thenot rise of donald trump in the transformation of the Republican Party we started this book back in the obama era. We had a sense that baker was a character who would help us to write a big story about washington as well has as well as his own personal story. From watergaten to the end of the cold war and james baker is in the middle of that. Host was an easy prey . Did he easily agreed to be interviewed for the book project . Wast at this point, he willing and ready for some of the l2 write a biography about him. Some ready for amebody else to write biography about him. He was open and cooperative. He didnt put anything off balance. He was very generous with us. Host what was it about him personally and about his stellar career in washington and before that that initially you to talk to him . Guest i think we realized we were delighted to re