What is your insight into president barack obama because of four dinners with them . He is a highly intelligent man. He is keenly interested in history and the way in which the president ial institution has evolved. What he could take away from past president ial performances to make his a more compelling and more successful administration. I wish we had some extraordinary answers to provide him, but of course the nature of history is that it is an imperfect humanistic enterprise. He understood this. We talked a Great Variety of things in those interviews, in those dinners. Roughly 12 historians. I wasnt the only one there. ,ome of his principal aides including one of his principal speechwriters. For me it was a fascinating experience to be able to sit right next to the president at dinner and have this kind of exchange with him. Anmany ways, it felt like academic seminar. He is someone who has been a. Rofessor of law it was like being in a seminar with a bunch of colleagues. Did you l
Because after all, he is someone who has been a professor of law. It was like being in a seminar with a bunch of colleagues. That is how i would characterize it. Did you leave there writing things down after you were there to remind yourself . Can you give us an example . You know, when done with this i think we will have more dinners with him. One of my colleagues and i talked a little bit about writing a piece called dinners with obama. I think it will be a very positive piece because he listens. He wasnt intent on giving us instruction or lobbying us for anything in particular. Except that at the first dinner he wanted to know how president s achieved the transformative presidency. How did Franklin Roosevelt do it . Theodore roosevelt, woodrow wilson, Ronald Reagan with his reagan revolution. At the second dinner, because this was in 2010, he was slipping somewhat in the polls and did not have the continuing hold of the publics imagination. That is not unusual. Once president s are
Hey, moussetache. Ima hit the couch. You know where i be. Tonight on rock center Meredith Vieiras explosive interview with a woman who went public with a secret she thought she would never share. Its about her intimate time spent with president john f. Kennedy inside the white house while she was still a teenager. It was exciting. It was glamorous, it was fun. Mimi alford said the affair began on just her fourth day as a white house intern when she was just 19 and the president gave her a private tour that ended up in the first ladys bedroom. He didnt put his hands on my shoulders and sort of guided me down to the edge of the bed. I think he may have even said to me, is this all right . I didnt really know what was about to happen. And then what did happen was i lost my virginity right there. What followed, she says, was an affair that lasted more than a year. Later including telephone calls summoning her from college. Youre in a limo. Theyre picking you up and taking you i guess to th
President John F. Kennedy allegedly took the virginity of a 19-year-old White House intern in his wife Jackie's bed, beginning an 18-month affair that continued up until his assassination in 1963.