History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. Next on the presidency, a conversation about William Leuchtenburgs new book, the american president from Teddy Roosevelt to bill clinton. Douglas with historian brinkley about the president he has met and shares his insight on others like william taft, harry truman, and Calvin Coolidge. The New York Historical society hosted this 90 minute event. [applause] good morning, thank you for being here. One Public Service announcement. We will be taking questions. When that happens, we ask you to just ask one question, tried to keep it brief, but also tell us your name. We will try to get as many people through the microphones as we can. Two Staff Members will be on hand. We will be going back and forth and picking up people to ask questions. It is an absolute thrill for me to be here, because William Leuchtenburg is a hero of mine. I did my doctorate in u. S. President ial diplomatic history, and his books were a seminal reading when i was co
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And last night the marriage ended apparently because donald trump cannot stand to be challenged at least least of all by a cabal of the mustached bolton and a mike pence. The National Security advisor how to deal with china, north korea, iran, he or she supposed to be the remark tect of the grand plan of moving our country forward in the 21st century. With bolton getting kicked out the door so casualty, so pathetically today we have to wonder if we even have a strategy or is donald trump deciding each second what wild ticked off impulse to go with. To take one more shot in the cheek for his pal vladimir or send one odd duck signal john bolton was trump pfs third National Security advisor in less than three years. On twitter President Trump wrote i informed john bolton last night his services were no longer needed at the white house. I disagreed strongly with many of his suggestions as did others in the administration and therefore i asked john for his resignation which was given to me