Life After Power with Jared Cohen

Here's Where It Gets Interesting

Sharon McMahon

Government, History, Storytelling, Education

4.9 • 15.1K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

What is it like to transition from one of the most powerful positions in the world, to that of an ordinary citizen? Sharon is joined by presidential historian and New York Times bestselling author, Jared Cohen, to share about what happens when presidents – at the pinnacle of their prestige and influence – leave office. What can we learn about human nature and building a legacy from these past political figures? Join us as we explore Jared’s new book, Life After Power, that confronts the ambiguous question of “what’s next” through the lenses of seven presidents, and how they found meaning in life beyond the White House.

Special thanks to our guest, Jared Cohen, for joining us today.

Host/ Executive Producer: Sharon McMahon

Audio Producer: Jenny Snyder

Production Coordinator: Andrea Champoux

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0:00.0	Hey friends, welcome, delighted to have you with me today. My guest is Presidential Historian
0:10.4	Jared Cohen, and he has written a really, really interesting book about what happens
0:15.6	when Presidents leave office. It's called Life After Power. And we have so much to learn
0:21.8	about what presidents do with their time after they make the ultimate career
0:27.1	transition. So let's dive in. I'm Sharon McMahon and here's where it gets interesting.
0:36.4	I am really excited to be chatting today with Jared Cohen because it is always fun to chat
0:41.1	with another presidential historian nerd and you could just spend, we've already
0:44.9	spent a considerable amount of time before we started recording being like, well what do you think of Pierce?
0:50.4	What did you, what is up with the Grover Cleveland's mustache? You know like you could just do this all afternoon so fun to have you here Terry. Thank you
0:58.0	Thank you Sharon. I'm glad we didn't start with Chester Arthur Martin Van Buren's mutton shops
1:02.0	Which would have been a classic opener.
1:04.1	I mean, it is absolutely true. I've said this for literally a decade that Martin
1:08.2	Van Buren looks like a koala bear. If you Google a picture of a koala bear,
1:12.6	Google it, put it next to Martin Van Buren,
1:14.5	and it's like that is what a human koala bear looks like.
1:17.5	Look, I'm not gonna quarrel with you on that.
1:19.8	Also what's interesting about Van Buren,
1:21.1	he was the only US president who English was not his first language?
1:24.1	His first language was Dutch.
1:26.1	So interesting.
1:27.1	Yeah, I think that there's so many little nuggets like this that people who are into this topic could
1:32.1	be like, yeah, that's's right they went to the Dutch
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