that is the case with nancy dms and michael duffy's the president's club. is a great book. we're here at the presidential library which happens to be the best in my opinion. handing out opinions having red nancy and mike's book i am sure there will not be a better book with such unique and interesting insights on the modern-day presidency published for some time. for me the ball past the i didn't know that test on every page. i didn't know president clinton respected president nixon or there was a presidential clubhouse where only presidents are allowed to say or that it was president reagan who talked president clinton how to salute. these really interesting discoveries are handful of revelations throughout the book. nancy gibbs and michael duffy have the experience and awards and reputation to write such a wonderful book. with that please join me in welcoming nancy gibbs and michael duffy. [applause] >> thank you. we could stand. thank you for their ridiculous introduction. i want to start by saying in the five years we spent putting this book together we had many of disc

we are thrilled to welcome michael duffy from washington., thank you for joining us tonight. >> it's great to be here. thank you. >> great to have you. like many americans, i first read the excerpt of the book in time magazine and was riveted. not just for the fun annek dotes but how these men managed to mend their differences. how were they able to patch up differences and become friends? >> it was almost like a mid-air collision actually. they were both september, in 1981, to cairo to the funeral of anwar sadat. richard nixon was sent with them. it was awkward on the way over but on the way back, nixon sort of peeled off to do his own secret mission as he was want to do, and so they were left in a relatively small boeing 707 and they bonded against all odds, against differences in ideology and their horrible fight in 1976. they realize they have sorted of the same problems and challenges and they don't much like ronald reagan. so they find out that they have more in common than they actually have that separates them. over the next 25 years

"time" magazine editors nancy gibs and michael duffy tell a story in their new book "the president'sinside the world's most exclusive fraternity." nancy gibbs, michael duffy, welcome. >> thank you. >> ifill: nancy, this started with hoover and truman. >> the most unlikely imaginable pair of presidents. they've got nothing in common except the fact that they were both worried about what was happening in europe after world war ii. so truman secretly mails a letter to hoover asking him to come to the white house like three weeks after truman first takes office and says "can you help me? you did this after world war i, we have a problem, i need your help." and that was the start of what turned out to be a beautiful friendship. >> ifill: it also became tradition over time but it wasn't really about party lineage here. we had john kennedy trying to court eisenhower. >> right. we found over and over that actually presidents from different parties get along better than presidents from the same party which is not what we expected. we thought they'd branch out. they actually seemed to bond fas

that is definitely the case with nancy gibbs and michael duffy "the presidents club." it really is a good book. we are here today at the presidential library, which happens to be the best in my unbiased opinion, and while i am handing out opinions, having read nancy and mike's book i am sure there will not be a better book with such unique and interesting insights on the modern-day presidency published for some time. now i know this because for me, the book past the i didn't know that test on every page. i didn't know that president clinton had real respect for president nixon. i didn't know that there was a presidential clubhouse across from the white house where only former presidents are allowed to stay, and i definitely didn't know it was president reagan who taught president clinton how to salute. bees really interesting discoveries are just a handful of the scores of revelations throughout their book. and no wonder, nancy and mike are two of the most talented writers and editors at time magazine who have the experience, the awards, the rolodex and the reputation

so ladies and gentlemen, with that, please join me in welcoming, michael duffy and nancy gibbs.applause] >> we could stand. thank you, john for that ridiculous introduction. i wanted to start by saying that by saying that in the five years that nancy and i spent putting us book together, we had many discovery moments, where we were learning as much about the president as you'll learn if you get a chance to read this, things we didn't know, things that surprised as even about the man we had covered from reagan through bush and clinton and bush and now obama. so for us, it was a real journey of discovery to say nothing we learned about hoover and truman and eisenhower, kennedy, john, nixon and ford. so we too came away thinking wow, i didn't know that. and for us, it was a turning that continues because people keep telling us things we did know. but in some ways, ronald reagan was a bigger part of that story that we would have just because we first meet him in 1947, long before his president be. and as we delve deeper and deeper into reagan's relationship with the club, we learn h

and "the president's club" co-written by nancy gibbs and michael duffy is at number 10 this week.hey were featured on c-span's "q&a" program and the interview is available on our web site. coming up in a couple of minutes, we'll turn our attention to the euro and the future of the european economy with an expert from george mason university and later, mona yacoubian of the stimson center will be joining us to talk about the developing story in syria. but with the help of our partners at cox communications cable, all week long here on c-span 2 and c-span 3, book tv, a look at programming from american history tv and book tv, our look at wichita, kansas and it's featured all this weekend and the city itself is called the air capital of the world. lon smith is among those we talked to, the executive director of the kansas aviation about the early days of american aviation and why wichita, kansas has attracted so many aviation pioneers in the early 20th century and we're featuring wichita on c-span 2's book tv programming and c-span 3's american history programming. here's a portion o