john gaddis was writing about someone he actually knew. uh, this was a semi-authorized biography. george kennan said go forth and write about me but do it once i am gone but then he proceeded to live to be more than 100 years old. [laughter] so that was a complicated biographical relationship. david blight was writing about someone that he deeply admired, someone he spent his career thinking about, and someone who was among the most admired figures in all of american history, and i had a slightly different problem than that. uh, which is i was going to write a big about someone who was among the most universally hated figures of the 20th century. i want to say though, that that was one of the things that made me want to write about hoover. he is often portrayed in our public culture, in our popular culture as a sort of one-dimensional villain, right, this figure who sat in the back room listening in on everyone, pulling strings, manipulating and threatening people, and to be frank, that is a big part of what the book is about because he did a lot of those things. [laughter] but as

john gaddis was writing about someone that heou actually knew.s was aor semi-authorized biography. george kennan had said go forth and write aboutit me, but do it once i am gone, and then he proceeded to live to be more than 100 years old. [laughing] so that was a complicated biographical relationship. david blight was writing about someone that he deeply admired, some of that he had spent his career thinking about, and someone who was among the most admired figures in all of american history. and i had a slightly different problem than that. which is that i was going to write a big book about someone who was among the most universally hated figures of the 20th century. i wanted to say though that that was one of the things that made me want to write about hoover. he is often portrayed in our public culture, in our popular culture as a sort of one-dimensional villain. this figure who was in the back room listening in on everyone, holding strings, manipulating and threatening people, and to be frank that is a big part of what this book is about be

one was john gaddis who was writing a biography of the great cold war strategist and thinker. one was david white who was writing a biography of frederick douglass, the great abolitionist . and there i was writing biography of j edgar hoover. and what was interesting to me about that panel was that though we were all engaged in this project called biography we each had radically different relationships with our subjects. john gaddis was writing about someone that he actually knew. this was a semi-authorized biography. george had said go forth and write about me but do it once i am gone and then he proceeded to live to be more than 100 years old. [laughter] so that was a complicated biographical relationship. david blight was writing about someone that he deeply admired. someone he had spent his career thinking about and someone who was among the most admired thinkers in all of american history. and i had a slightly different problem than that which is that i was going to write a big book about someone who was among the most universally hated figures of the 20th century. i want

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john lewis gaddis has written about that, that reagan sought to break the to break the stale mate of the of the cold war with the potency of ideas. but there's another way that the strategy was fundamentally and that is all the steps that the administration took were designed to send a message in that. i argue that the buildup not not preparation for war but was preparation for peace. that reagan did buildup to create the to have strong negotiating hand. and as soon as he thought had that hand, he immediately took steps to that led to the successful negotiations and that also explains i something that's been alluded to reagan's famous statement that that the only a appropriate strategy in the cold war is that we win and they lose because that strategy goal was based in ideas. one more thing about that, reagan more than more than any other major political figure of the time understood the weakness of soviet union. yes, there were experts who recognized the weakness of the soviet economy. but reagan saw that before else, and he was often ridic fueled for those views and by policy comme

john lewis gaddis has written about that, that reagan sought to break the to break the stale mate of the of the cold war with the potency of ideas. but there's another way that the strategy was fundamentally and that is all the steps that the administration took were designed to send a message in that. i argue that the buildup not not preparation for war but was preparation for peace. that reagan did buildup to create the to have strong negotiating hand. and as soon as he thought had that hand, he immediately took steps to that led to the successful negotiations and that also explains i something that's been alluded to reagan's famous statement that that the only a appropriate strategy in the cold war is that we win and they lose because that strategy goal was based in ideas. one more thing about that, reagan more than more than any other major political figure of the time understood the weakness of soviet union. yes, there were experts who recognized the weakness of the soviet economy. but reagan saw that before else, and he was often ridic fueled for those views and by policy comme

he took outal bag gaddy -- al-baghdadi, he edged isis in syria, he took out soleimani who was the tophe did all those things. that's called strength. that's sending a message. that's a warning. it's like i have your phone number, and we'll come at you if you cause think trouble. any trouble. the other thing he did, obviously, he created the abraham accords which really began to encircle iran and change the whole nature of middle eastern politics. for peace, for working normalization withs israel and to make iran and its terrorist friends an outlier. you contrast that with what joe biden -- and i've got a couple of numbers for you. president trump said billions of dollars. you know what we've, we, the united states, has allowed or permitted or provided, listen to this. everyone's talking about the $6 billion which was an account opened up. money is fungible, everybody knows that. these white house, blinken or kirby, it's just nonsense. hundred is fungible. $6 billion unfrozen from korea. but hang on a second. there was a $10 billion release from monies held in iraq are. $10 billion. if

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