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richard norton smith, douglas brinkley, edna medford. since the 2000 each time there s been a change in administration, we have asked historians and professional observers of the presidency to participate in c-span historian survey of presidential leadership or this morning we drove our team of historian advisers who oversaw the fourth survey for a deep dive into those results rejoin from texas by professor doug brinkley of white university from michigan historian author smith by historian author and here in washington d.c. it is professional and that green bedford of howard university. thank you and for joining us this morning. doug brinkley to start with you this morning, the discussion by explaining the criteria that we use here. how do we compare the men, they are all men at this point who held the office of the presidency over 230 years more than two or 30 years. how do you decide to make that comparison? c-span is put together a group of all of us on the air t ....
richard norton smith, douglas brinkley, edna medford. since the 2000 each time there s been a change in administration, we have asked historians and professional observers of the presidency to participate in c-span historian survey of presidential leadership or this morning we drove our team of historian advisers who oversaw the fourth survey for a deep dive into those results rejoin from texas by professor doug brinkley of white university from michigan historian author smith by historian author and here in washington d.c. it is professional and that green bedford of howard university. thank you and for joining us this morning. doug brinkley to start with you this morning, the discussion by explaining the criteria that we use here. how do we compare the men, they are all men at this point who held the office of the presidency over 230 years more than two or 30 years. how do you decide to make that comparison? c-span is put together a group of all of us on the air t ....
washington d.c. it is professional and that green bedford of howard university. thank you and for joining us this morning. doug brinkley to start with you this morning, the discussion by explaining the criteria that we use here. how do we compare the men, they are all men at this point who held the office of the presidency over 230 years more than two or 30 years. how do you decide to make that comparison? c-span is put together a group of all of us on the air today, our advisors to it. how we rank in the presidents. we want to people to realize it s not a scientific ranking. it is to be fun and enlightening to stoke a conversation around the nation about various presidents, and what what briley did or do it s not just one ranking your breaking them up into categories. president will be judged on foreign policymaking or on race relations. or on the environment for public persuasion, on media relations, you get the idea. it s broken up into numerous categories. the new ....
washington d.c. it is professional and that green bedford of howard university. thank you and for joining us this morning. doug brinkley to start with you this morning, the discussion by explaining the criteria that we use here. how do we compare the men, they are all men at this point who held the office of the presidency over 230 years more than two or 30 years. how do you decide to make that comparison? c-span is put together a group of all of us on the air today, our advisors to it. how we rank in the presidents. we want to people to realize it s not a scientific ranking. it is to be fun and enlightening to stoke a conversation around the nation about various presidents, and what what briley did or do it s not just one ranking your breaking them up into categories. president will be judged on foreign policymaking or on race relations. or on the environment for public persuasion, on media relations, you get the idea. it s broken up into numerous categories. the new ....
watch american history and book tv every weekend on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or visit c-span.org. annette gordon-reed on the 245th anniversary of 1776, are we that exceptional nation we often tell ourselves we are? we re certainly trying to be. in what way? i think there are a number of peoplein society who are working to make the ideals of the declaration a reality . there s ideals expressed in the preamble about the quality and the pursuit of happiness so i think we have that idea and were trying to reach that. with the founders, and this is one of those silly questions but with the founders recognize who we are today? of course not. some aspects they would but others, women participating in politics, blacks participating in politics, all those things would have been foreign to them and the power of the united states . at the time we re talking about, 1776 this is the 13 colonies in the middle of nowhere. they don t have the p ....