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🗓️ 7 January 2019
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0:00.0 | I'm Gretchen Ribbon and this is a little happier. |
0:03.0 | I have written two biographies in my time, |
0:06.0 | 40 Ways to Look at Winston Churchill, |
0:08.0 | and 40 Ways to Look at JFK. |
0:10.0 | I had also planned to write a book called |
0:12.0 | 40 Ways to Look at Richard Nixon, |
0:14.0 | and I did a tremendous amount of research for that book |
0:17.0 | until my editor said that she didn't want to publish it, |
0:20.0 | so I had to cancel that project. |
0:22.0 | Now, at the time, this was a huge disappointment and shock to me, |
0:25.0 | but as it turns out, the book that I wrote instead |
0:28.0 | was the happiness project, so that whole thing turned out fine. |
0:31.0 | But as part of my research for the book that I ended up not writing, |
0:35.0 | I did a lot of work related to Richard Nixon. |
0:38.0 | And one story I often recall from that time came from a book |
0:41.0 | by Richard Reeves called Nixon Alone in the White House. |
0:45.0 | Now, when Nixon was president, an advisor drafted a letter, |
0:49.0 | which Nixon thought didn't strike the right tone, |
0:52.0 | but he sent it anyway, and he repeated to that aid |
0:55.0 | something that Eisenhower had once told him. |
0:59.0 | A true executive can sign a poor letter without changing it. |
1:04.0 | I remind myself to be excellent in some areas, |
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