This is CBS Eye on the World.

Here's John Batchelor.

Joined by Conrad Black,

Distinguished Biographer,

writing at the National Post

about the election imminent in Canada,

if I understand correctly.

But I want to begin with Conrad's thoughts about the election confirmed by the inauguration of Donald J. Trump to be the 47th President of the United States and the presentation Mr. Trump made in his inaugural speech.

Conrad, a very good evening to you.

You know the president well over the years.

You have been with him in the thin times and the thick times.

What did you make of his presentation during the inauguration and how it was received?

Good evening to you.

Yeah, good evening to you, John. Yeah, look, I thought it was a pretty hard-hitting inaugural address.

I mean, I've read a lot of them historic.

I mean, of course, some are famous.

Mr. Lincoln's are famous.

President Kennedy's is famous.

Some of Franklin Roosevelt's are famous.

But normally it's a more kind of uncontroversial,

you know, upbeat kind of address, but to accuse, I mean, his four immediate predecessors

were sitting there, and, you know, he had no use for any of them really and vice versa

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