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🗓️ 28 March 2012
⏱️ 57 minutes
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0:00.0 | Oh, the President matters a great deal. |
0:04.1 | You may recognize that voice. |
0:05.8 | I'm Don Rumsfeld, and I've just written a book known and unknown in memoir. |
0:12.8 | He's also a former Navy pilot, Congressman, US Ambassador to NATO, White House Chief |
0:18.2 | of SAF, and a two-time Secretary of Defense. |
0:21.5 | Needless to say, our Constitution divides the powers between the legislative and the |
0:27.4 | judicial and the executive branches. |
0:30.4 | So no President of the United States has the overwhelming power that dictators do, for |
0:37.4 | example. |
0:38.4 | However, a President of the United States has the bully pulpit. |
0:41.5 | He can talk and be heard and people listen. |
0:44.9 | And of course, in our society, with a free political system, you lead not by command, but |
0:50.0 | by persuasion. |
0:52.0 | And persuasion, my uncle used to tell me, is a two-edged sword, reason and emotion, plunge |
0:59.2 | it deep. |
1:00.6 | Today, we're going to plunge deep into a couple of questions. |
1:04.3 | The first one, the one I asked Rumsfeld. |
1:07.2 | Now, I have a feeling you're not going to like it. |
1:09.9 | Most people, if you ask him this question, their heads explode. |
1:13.8 | They sputter, they swear, they tell you you're a moron for even thinking this question. |
1:19.3 | But let's ask it anyway. |
1:21.9 | How much does the President of the United States really matter? |
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