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joining me now, john meacham, the rogers chair in the american presidency at vanderbilt. he occasionally advises president biden on historical matters and major speeches. he is the author of the call to serve, a visual biography of george hw bush, which comes out this tuesday. john, thank you very much for coming back to the sunday show. talk about why it is an affront to the fallen that a former president and potential future president is praising authoritarians and parenting nazi slogans as part of his campaign >> well, you know, there's a difference between patriotism and nationalism. and that may sound overly dorky but it is incredibly revel relevant to where we are now, as you have just laid out. patriotism is allegiance to an idea, out of principles, and the united states, are best patriotic stakes finds its expression in allegiance to the declaration of independence, as our mission statement, the constitution, as it has been said, is our users guide. nationalism, however, is about allegiance and protection and privileging of your own kind, people who look like you,
joining me now, john meacham, the rogers chair in the american presidency at vanderbilt. he occasionally advises president biden on historical matters and major speeches. he is the author of the call to serve, a visual biography of george hw bush, which comes out this tuesday. john, thank you very much for coming back to the sunday show. talk about why it is an affront to the fallen that a former president and potential future president is praising authoritarians and parenting nazi slogans as...
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former congresswoman cheney on a bio: john meacham will held a conversation on democracy and how leaders put principles ahead of politics. it was part of the washington national international cathedral speaker series. it is about an hour. cotton. [applause] [applause] - thank you. >> this is the only case in which liz cheney is to myen lef. [laughter] background like a softball. >> a little hanging fruit but it tastes good so you take it. we weret both pleased they told us this was an easter crowd and we were pleased we did go through although sometimes washington is that we does anybody and will thank you all for being here, thank you to congresswoman cheney and through a rare quality and so many. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> let's start on january 6, 2021 oregon you get up, you think it's way to be another day at the office? >> is such a wonderful privilege to be here with the bishop gone and with don who not only the historian lori who is the voice of our age as an american korean. very grateful for all that you have done. [applause] waterworld that is why we are in the troub
former congresswoman cheney on a bio: john meacham will held a conversation on democracy and how leaders put principles ahead of politics. it was part of the washington national international cathedral speaker series. it is about an hour. cotton. [applause] [applause] - thank you. >> this is the only case in which liz cheney is to myen lef. [laughter] background like a softball. >> a little hanging fruit but it tastes good so you take it. we weret both pleased they told us this was...
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it is a personality driven, and -- >> did you ever think you, john meacham, would be saying that about the republican party? does that make you sad? >> of course it makes me sad. i have voted for republicans for president. i am george h.w. bush's biographer. but talking about him in this context is like talking about the peloponnesian war. it is that far back. right? so no. but it is that. and you saw even when things kind of work, you sort of saw the tension, right? you saw speaker mike johnson do the deal on ukraine. educate himself. say he wanted to be on the right side of history. everything you want from a public figure. and what does he do? he shows up in manhattan to show his guilty. now he is facing voters, i understand the forces on that. i have never been on a ballot, i get it. but i get the reason he's doing it. i don't get the ultimate reason. what the party is doing right now is they are putting the short-term power sentence, short and midterm power incentives over the long-term good of the experiment they are sworn to protect. and that is a position that, look, i wouldn't
it is a personality driven, and -- >> did you ever think you, john meacham, would be saying that about the republican party? does that make you sad? >> of course it makes me sad. i have voted for republicans for president. i am george h.w. bush's biographer. but talking about him in this context is like talking about the peloponnesian war. it is that far back. right? so no. but it is that. and you saw even when things kind of work, you sort of saw the tension, right? you saw speaker...
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goodbye that we all take for granted here with us to discuss this is historian john meacham, his new book, the call to serve, just hit bookshelves. >> donna, we will definitely get to that in just a second, but it's great to have you on the show. president biden when he was running in 2020, he didn't shy away from his warning about trump and democracy, but he had a kind of optimistic view of where the country was headed. now, this seems to be actually quite a a kind of catastrophic view from the first lady. do you think that there has been a shift here and a shift in the president's view about what trump means for this country i don't think there's going to shift and i think that what you see with the campaign which you see what the president, with what you played at the first lady is. >> they're calling them like they see them, and they're taking trump seriously. there taking the former president seriously and what he has said publicly, he would like to do in a second term. and i think one of the things that history tells us is that we don't do ourselves any favors by pretending a t
goodbye that we all take for granted here with us to discuss this is historian john meacham, his new book, the call to serve, just hit bookshelves. >> donna, we will definitely get to that in just a second, but it's great to have you on the show. president biden when he was running in 2020, he didn't shy away from his warning about trump and democracy, but he had a kind of optimistic view of where the country was headed. now, this seems to be actually quite a a kind of catastrophic view...
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and pulitzer prize winning presidential historian jon meacham. john is out with a book entitled, "the call to serve, the life of an american president, george herbert walker bush." we'll get into it a little later and maybe a little now, too. >> john, i briefly wanted you to talk to us about this memorial day, the contrast. what we've heard from president trump's own staff members about him being completely baffled by service to one's country in the military, by the loss of life, basically calling those who were killed losers. i want to ask you, again, the contrast not just between joe biden and donald trump, but between donald trump and every president that's ever served this country before when we get to this point. i must say, too, the people who we have discussed before in their little fleece vests who, we talk about it for money, them supporting trump because they think they'll make more money. it is ridiculous because the dao dow is at 40,000. this is something else i've never been able to figure out. the very people who spent their entire
and pulitzer prize winning presidential historian jon meacham. john is out with a book entitled, "the call to serve, the life of an american president, george herbert walker bush." we'll get into it a little later and maybe a little now, too. >> john, i briefly wanted you to talk to us about this memorial day, the contrast. what we've heard from president trump's own staff members about him being completely baffled by service to one's country in the military, by the loss of...
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roger chair of the presidency at vanderbilt university, john meesh m. >> meacham. >> we learned meacham was a difficult student. >> we learned it by someone who taught him shakespeare. >> difficult, huh? >> well, i think she may have just been saying -- >> difficult. >> -- you already knew everything. >> exactly. >> oh, sure. that's probably what it was, yeah. >> or thought you knew everything. >> okay. >> that is definitely true, yup. >> also with us this morning, columnist and associate editor of "the washington post," david ignatius is with us. he is the author of the new thriller, which is out tomorrow. >> oh, my gosh. >> entitled, "phantom orbit." we can't wait to talk about that. >> i'm telling you, these are so exciting, david. the amazing thing about your books is, and the few people who try to do this but can't quite do it as well as you do, is there are often things that you can write in these books that you can't write in nonfiction books. >> right. >> it is an accumulation of a lot of things that you've learned through the years that you just can't write because it's been, y
roger chair of the presidency at vanderbilt university, john meesh m. >> meacham. >> we learned meacham was a difficult student. >> we learned it by someone who taught him shakespeare. >> difficult, huh? >> well, i think she may have just been saying -- >> difficult. >> -- you already knew everything. >> exactly. >> oh, sure. that's probably what it was, yeah. >> or thought you knew everything. >> okay. >> that is...