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🗓️ 5 January 2016
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0:00.0 | So, design the presidency effect you that knew the march. |
0:07.0 | And again, from what your country can do for you. |
0:13.5 | On January 10th, the Washington Post is launching a podcast called Presidential. |
0:18.6 | As luck would have it, there are 44 weeks between the beginning of January and Election Day |
0:22.6 | November. |
0:24.0 | So I'm going to explore the character, legacy, and leadership style of every single American |
0:29.2 | president, starting with George Washington and Week 1 and finishing just in time for |
0:33.5 | the election. |
0:35.5 | I'll be interviewing Pulitzer Prize winning historians like Doris Kerns Goodwin, David |
0:39.7 | McCullough, and John Meacham. |
0:41.3 | My view of Jackson is that his sins were the nation's sins. |
0:45.7 | And so, to condemn him without condemning the nation itself is sort of a cop out. |
0:56.4 | I'm also going to turn to Washington Post reporters and editors who are experts on covering |
1:00.6 | the American presidency, like Bob Woodward. |
1:05.0 | What do you remember Clinton for? |
1:07.9 | It's a great, debatable question. |
1:10.9 | Presidential will question why it is we remember certain presidents the way we do, why we've |
1:15.9 | forgotten about others and whether we should have forgotten about them, and what all those |
1:20.0 | legacies tell us about who we are as a country. |
1:28.0 | I'm Lillian Cunningham, the leadership editor at the Washington Post, and I'll be your host. |
1:32.5 | I'm not a history buff, so I'll ask the ridiculous questions you would probably never ask the |
1:39.1 | country's best presidential experts. |
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