It is about 90 minutes. Tonight as i said we are partnering with the Hauenstein Center. If you have not heard bill brands speak before, you will be delighted, and if you have been here in the past, youre in for another treat. Please join me in welcoming my colleague, gleaves whitney, director of the Hauenstein Center to introduce our speaker. [applause] thank you very much, elaine, for that warm introduction. We really appreciate our partnership with the ford. It is always a treat. We will continue to bring you excellent programs. That stimulate the mind and heart for public service. Happy washingtons birthday to our cspan audience and our audience here at the ford. Its really neat to be here recognizing washingtons birthday. Its always a pleasure to host bill brands. We have had him back to west michigan so many times i have lost count. He should be awarded a lifetime tenure award. I have probably personally introduced bill more than a dozen times. Each time i go back and check his bi
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how wrong they are, frankly. i don t see a lot of similarities in terms of depth between donald trump and andrew jackson. host: really, not a thing? guest: i m not saying there are not some similarities. care,ave both got great of course. a lot of comparisons try to push trump into this box with jackson, and it is not a viable comparison in my opinion. host: that is a picture a painting in the oval office he put up. why do you think he did that? guest: steve bannon convinced him to do that, i think. i don t think trump has any clue as to who jackson was before he became president, or maybe he had some clue. there and someone afterwards said that trump studied jackson and new all about him before he became president, modeled his campaign after jackson. i just had to shake my head. i don t think trump has a good idea of who jackson is. host: when did you first get interested in and jackson and why? guest: i was an undergraduate at cumberland university. i had a professor, one
similarities, in terms of depth between donald trump and andrew jackson. brian: really? not a mark: really. brian: not a thing. mark: i m not saying there aren t some similarities, they both have great hair of course. but i think a lot of the comparison s try to to push trump into the box with jackson, and it s not it s not a viable comparison in my opinion. brian: that s a picture of i mean a painting in the oval office that he put up. why do you think he did that? mark: steve bannon convinced him to do it i think. i don t think trump had any clue as to who jackson was, probably before he became president, or maybe he had some clue. i was at the hermitage recently when trump was there and someone afterwards said that trump studied jackson and knew all about him before he became president, modeled his campaign after jackson and i just had to shake my head. i just don t think trump really has a good idea of who jackson is. brian: when did you first get interested in
this week on q&a, mark cheathem on his biography of andrew jackson. he talks about the comparisons made between president jackson and president trump. brian: mark cheathem, author of andrew jackson, southerner, and a lot of other books about andrew jackson and the south, when you see this picture on the screen, what comes to mind? mark: all the comparisons between trump and jackson and how wrong they are, frankly. i don t see a lot of similarities in terms of depth between donald trump and andrew jackson. brian: really? not a mark: really. brian: not a thing? mark: i m not saying there aren t some similarities. they both have great hair, of course. but i think a lot of the comparisons try to push trump into a box with jackson and it s not a viable comparison, in my opinion. brian: that s a picture of i mean, a painting in the oval office that he put up. why do you think he did that? mark: steve bannon convinced him to do it, i think. i don t think trump had any clue a