crowd applauds jon meacham welcome. Thank you sir. Nice to see you again. Delighted to be here. And you have another winner on your hands . Well i hope so, i hope so. Who knows these days in the Book Business. In the Book Business but its been a long time, a long journey. It has been. Why him . Because he matters. Hes a consequential president with an extraordinary life. Its an american saga. If we wrote this as a novel and submitted it, it would get bounced for being improbable. Not believable enough as fiction. No, heres what were going to do. On his 18th birthday, hes going to graduate from high school and go to boston and enlist in the navy. At the age of 20, hes going to be shot down out of the sky, rescued by a us submarine after losing two men. He thinks about those men everyday the rest of his life. In an interview with me 70 years later, 60 years later, he breaks down into tears wondering whether he did enough to save them, del delany and ted white, on that saturday over chich
Jon meacham welcome. Thank you sir. Nice to see you again. Delighted to be here. And you have another winner on your hands . Well i hope so, i hope so. Who knows these days in the Book Business. In the Book Business but its been a long time, a long journey. It has been. Why him . Because he matters. Hes a consequential president with an extraordinary life. Its an american saga. If we wrote this as a novel and submitted it, it would get bounced for being improbable. Not believable enough as fiction. No, heres what were going to do. On his 18th birthday, hes going to graduate from high school and go to boston and enlist in the navy. At the age of 20, hes going to be shot down out of the sky, rescued by a us submarine after losing two men. He thinks about those men everyday the rest of his life. In an interview with me 70 years later, 60 years later, he breaks down into tears wondering whether he did enough to save them, del delany and ted white, on that saturday over chichijima in the pa
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