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and he my favorite story about david mccullough. i'm not even sure it's you know, i'm not sure it's the one you were referring to. but i'll tell it to you, because i i think it really exempt defies. you know what we are as a publishing company. david was under contract to us to write a book about picasso, and he he spent about a year on it. and he came to the conclusion that he didn't want to write the book because he really did not want pablo picasso in his life any more. he didn't like the guy and david david had a really terrific literary agent named mort janklow. mort came to simon schuster. he said david wants to give his money back. he wants to give his advance back. he doesn't want to write this book and the people at simon schuster at the time, i believe it was -- snider, said, keep the money, don't return it. we want to publish whatever david does next and he'll come up with a better idea. and the book that he came up with was truman. and obviously that changed the trajectory of david's career. it became it was it was reall
and he my favorite story about david mccullough. i'm not even sure it's you know, i'm not sure it's the one you were referring to. but i'll tell it to you, because i i think it really exempt defies. you know what we are as a publishing company. david was under contract to us to write a book about picasso, and he he spent about a year on it. and he came to the conclusion that he didn't want to write the book because he really did not want pablo picasso in his life any more. he didn't like the...
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and he my favorite story about david mccullough. i'm not even sure it's you know, i'm not sure it's the one you were referring to. but i'll tell it to you, because i i think it really exempt defies. you know what we are as a publishing company. david was under contract to us to write a book about picasso, and he he spent about a year on it. and he came to the conclusion that he didn't want to write the book because he really did not want pablo picasso in his life any more. he didn't like the guy and david david had a really terrific literary agent named mort janklow. mort came to simon schuster. he said david wants to give his money back. he wants to give his advance back. he doesn't want to write this book and the people at simon schuster at the time, i believe it was -- snider, said, keep the money, don't return it. we want to publish whatever david does next and he'll come up with a better idea. and the book that he came up with was truman. and obviously that changed the trajectory of david's career. it became it was it was reall
and he my favorite story about david mccullough. i'm not even sure it's you know, i'm not sure it's the one you were referring to. but i'll tell it to you, because i i think it really exempt defies. you know what we are as a publishing company. david was under contract to us to write a book about picasso, and he he spent about a year on it. and he came to the conclusion that he didn't want to write the book because he really did not want pablo picasso in his life any more. he didn't like the...
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how many of you all have read david mccullough's book? me too, right. it's such a wonderful book and i was such a huge fan of david mccullough's and weirdly. while i was writing this book, he died right? while i was writing the book, i was sitting at my desk. i had i don't know how real authors do it, but i had books scattered all around me on the floor in my computer, and i was just picking them up and my phone lit up and it said that david mccullough had died. and i looked down and there was my copy of his truman book, open on the floor to the chapter on truman's world war one service. and it was kind of a a strange moment. i, again, i was a huge fan, but also after reading that book, me and probably some, you were like, what? possibly can there still be left to be said about harry truman? and i guess that's what i'm here to talk about tonight. turns out, in my opinion, i did find some things still to say about truman and taking a look, especially at this three years of his life and how they might even be relevant today. 31 years believe it or not, si
how many of you all have read david mccullough's book? me too, right. it's such a wonderful book and i was such a huge fan of david mccullough's and weirdly. while i was writing this book, he died right? while i was writing the book, i was sitting at my desk. i had i don't know how real authors do it, but i had books scattered all around me on the floor in my computer, and i was just picking them up and my phone lit up and it said that david mccullough had died. and i looked down and there was...
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at which point, according to david mccullough, grandpa uttered a four letter word and accepted harry. he believed and i've always said that the events of 1944 show us a very interesting example that history is, replete with examples of people being thrown out of office in 1944, we get a rare glimpse of someone being thrown into office, and i think that's really the only way to describe how harry truman ended up in the white house as he was. he was went kicking and screaming against as well. so jumping back a little further, let's let's talk about a couple of elections. patricia in in the early part of the 20th century, we have william howard taft, who comes to the presidency in 1908. that election as the hand-picked successor of teddy roosevelt and you know in his too bad the tweed roosevelt isn't here because i think we could really have a good time piling on to teddy roosevelt here because his treatment of taft is and they're in the same party again. but it's a little less than aboveboard. what would you call it? the taft can't catch a break within our own party. robert h. have lost
at which point, according to david mccullough, grandpa uttered a four letter word and accepted harry. he believed and i've always said that the events of 1944 show us a very interesting example that history is, replete with examples of people being thrown out of office in 1944, we get a rare glimpse of someone being thrown into office, and i think that's really the only way to describe how harry truman ended up in the white house as he was. he was went kicking and screaming against as well. so...
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. >> i think that's -- >> no, i was just going to say and the david mccullough book, you know, one of my favorite presidential biographies makes that clear, right? >> wonderful. exactly. >> well, let's talk about -- michael, talk to me about congress's inaction now. what would president truman be saying about not supplying money to ukraine in a war? >> well, i think he'd want to kick some rear ends on capitol hill too because if he came back today, he would say that the reason the three of us are on this program as americans alive has a lot to do with the fact that nato survived, that harry truman thought of it. that he got it through congress and explained to americans why only four years after the end of world war ii, they had to possibly arm to fight the soviet union and keep it out of western europe and preserve freedom. we're fighting that fight all over again right now. republicans on capitol hill are saying that there's a very good chance we're going to vote down aid to ukraine. there is less support among -- on that side for nato than there has probably been in the last 75 yea
. >> i think that's -- >> no, i was just going to say and the david mccullough book, you know, one of my favorite presidential biographies makes that clear, right? >> wonderful. exactly. >> well, let's talk about -- michael, talk to me about congress's inaction now. what would president truman be saying about not supplying money to ukraine in a war? >> well, i think he'd want to kick some rear ends on capitol hill too because if he came back today, he would say...