It's Time to Talk About Nixon

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🗓️ 9 June 2017

⏱️ 33 minutes

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John Farrell, author of "Richard Nixon: The Life" talks about what made the the 37th President so unique, and how his presidency parallels that of the Trump administration.

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0:00.0	Ladies and gentlemen, we invite you to meet the press.
0:03.6	Meet the press.
0:04.4	Meet the press.
0:05.4	Welcome to 1947.
0:09.1	The Meet the Press podcast.
0:10.4	My guest today is author John Farrell.
0:13.1	His latest book is Richard Nixon The Life.
0:15.9	It's a biography of a president who was a brawler at a time of turmoil and a man who saw
0:19.9	conspiracies all around him.
0:22.2	But he was also a president who consolidated power and made waves around the world during
0:26.4	his time in office.
0:28.1	John Farrell, welcome to 1947.
0:32.9	It is, I think the title of this podcast today we're calling it, it's time to talk about
0:38.2	Nixon.
0:39.9	And we're not necessarily saying it just because, hey, Richard Nixon, let's look back in history
0:45.2	here.
0:46.2	Yeah, it's, oh yes, the Nixon Library plans a big expansion.
0:51.9	Let me just start big picture here with tackling it.
0:54.0	Before we get into the Nixon Trump, what's a parallel, what's not?
0:58.8	I'll admit, when I remember when I was like, boy, can you still write more books on Nixon?
1:04.2	And the emphatic answer is obviously yes, you're having great success with this.
1:08.5	But what made, what was the mana from heaven for you in making this book work?
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