I spent a day with Elvis Presleys doctors and learned about this troubles with severe constipation. Host who was his doctor. Guest doctor nick copolus. Host what was that like . Cincinnati was lovely. The anniversary of elvis death. Always a gathering of all of elvis hard core fans who come to grace happen and they were milling around. Nick was doing a memorial tribute. Then i went over to his house, the house that elvis had built for him in the 70s, and doctor nick and i sat around in the living room of this wonderful 1970 at the time very, very posh place, great big rooms, and we sat there, doctor nick here and his wife, edna, and edna would be the furniture was quite far apart and i would try to lean down to put my coffee id have to get up to get the coffee cup down, and we talk about elvis, and every now and then edna, from would pop up with an observation or comment about Priscilla Presley or a dispatch from edna. Host what did you learn from doctor nick . Guest i was there to tal
not a morning person, this paper hours me so happy. you sit around and wait until somebody says, two bodies found in a house in queens. thing might a you . you get on the subway and take a notebook and allow. i remember when i interviewed at the new york times when i was 24, i kept saying that. top editors would say, what do you want to do. i was taken by want to be a general assignment reporter. .. guest: it became clear to me that i was thought of as someone who was a dab hand with a turn rily a clear to me that i was thought of as someone clear tohf me that there was a turn of taught tot i was that. and i realized that i was goingr to make my way, to where ever,c. that i was going to have to to convince them that i could do that, too. so i have to go to the ccity hl and i covered the first twostran years of un. the administration, which was so much fun. ike berger in the 30s. it s the most fun because twice a week you do reporting on anything you want in new york city.
which he said, you know, today in 2005, a private suffers more grief for losing a rifle than a general suffers for losing a war. and it s true, john reflected that being a general is really hard, and should be expected that many people fail at it. that command is famously hard. the american military had a tradition of firing general. there wasn t any shame in it. the military has completely lost the tradition. generals are essentially only fired by the president for political reasons now. tom wanted to understand what happened in the culture. he follows the generals all around the wars following the gene yolings and looking at what it is to be a general and why it is what s going to i can t read the whole part for you. this is a book we need as an institution to ask ourself about the questions about the leadership and how we hold our leadership accountable. and this is the book about how organizations need to hold themselves accountable for their performance, or else they
guest: it became clear to me that i was thought of as someone who was a dab hand with a turn of phrase but not necessarily a serious, hard news reporter. d i realized that if and ito make my way through the realize to wherever, i was going to have to convince them i could do that too. so i asked to go to city hall, and i covered the first two years of the koch administration which was so much fun. and, um, and once i did that, i got a column called about new york which was started by mike berger in the 30s. it s the most fun because twice a week you do reporting on anything you want in new york city. and it s supposed to be written in a kind of a distinctive literary voice. and so that was a wonderful assignment. and then i became deputy metropolitan editor, a stint which was interrupted by not one, but two maternity leaves. and, um, when i came back, i realized that i was not going to be able to hold it together with two little boys under 2 and a newspaper job. and i qu
i remember when i interviewed at the new york times when i was 24, i kept saying that. top editors would say, what do you want to do. i was taken by want to be a general assignment reporter. .. guest: it became clear to me that i was thought of as someone who was a dab hand with a turn of phrase but not necessarily a serious, hard news reporter. and i realized that if i was going to make my way through the paper, um, to wherever, i was going to have to convince them i could do that too. so i asked to go to city hall, and i covered the first two years of the koch administration which was so much fun. and, um, and once i did that, i got a column called about new york which was started by mike berger in the 30s. it s the most fun because twice a week you do reporting on anything you want in new york city. and it s supposed to be written in a kind of a distinctive literary voice. and so that was a wonderful assignment. and then i became deputy metropolitan editor, a stint wh