Wanted: A Biden Campaign
Beg to Differ with Mona Charen
The Bulwark
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🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 73 minutes
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highlights / lowlights
David: In closing, Trump’s team takes the jurors for idiots (Dana Milbank, WaPo)
Mona: Why Trump is hobnobbing with rappers facing gang-related charges (MSNBC)
Bill Kristol: The impressiveness of the Manhattan Trump Trial (NYT).
Linda Chavez: Mexican Democracy Hangs In The Balance (Enrique Krauze, Persuasion)
Bill Galston: Highlight: NATO’s boss wants to free Ukraine to strike hard inside Russia (The Economist)
Lowlight: Almost 6,000 Dead in 6 Years: How Baltimore Became the U.S. Overdose Capital (NYT)
show notes:
The Danger of a Small Act of Cowardice by David Hume Kennerly. (Includes the Cheney / Ford photo referenced in the show.)
David's Resignation Letter from the Ford Presidential Foundation
Transcript
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| 0:15.3 | Welcome to Beg to Bue to Differ, Thewerks weekly roundtable discussion featuring civil conversation across the political spectrum. We range from center left to |
| 0:19.6 | center right. I'm Mona Charon, syndicated columnist and policy editor at the Bullwork and I'm joined by two of our regulars, Bill Galston of the Wall Street Journal and the Brookings Institution, and Linda Chavez of the Niskannon Center. |
| 0:34.7 | Damon Linker is out this week but joining us in his place is Bill Crystal, |
| 0:40.3 | who is editor at large at the Bullworkwark and we're delighted to have him and our special guest this week is David Hume |
| 0:48.4 | Kenerley who is a wonderful photographer who has been at the heart of American political life for 50 years. |
| 0:58.0 | He won the Pulitzer Prize at the age of 25, which is almost obscene he has been in Vietnam in Pakistan at the fight of |
| 1:08.9 | the century between Ali and Frazier. He photographed Donald Trump on election night 2016. |
| 1:17.0 | So he's kind of been at the forefront and of course he did serve as President Gerald Ford's photographer. That is not why we've |
| 1:27.9 | asked him here this week. We asked him here this week because he did something that is all too rare in American politics these days. |
| 1:38.0 | He stood up for principle and so first of all, thank you all for joining me and David I would love if you would explain to our listeners |
| 1:49.2 | What happened with the Gerald Ford president was it the presidential foundation is that what it is? |
| 1:55.0 | It was considering giving an award to Liz Cheney and why don't you pick it up from there? |
| 2:01.0 | Yes, I had been a trustee of the Gerald R Ford Foundation for, I don't know how many years, |
| 2:09.3 | 20 years maybe. |
| 2:11.8 | I was like the last person you'd ever expect to see on a board of anything. |
| 2:17.0 | So just fast forward, we can nominate for the Gerald R Ford Presidential Medal of Public Service, |
| 2:26.1 | anybody we like. I wasn't on the nominating committee, but any trustee could put up a name. |
| 2:33.1 | And so this last time around, I put up Liz Cheney |
| 2:38.0 | as a very deserving person for that award. |
| 2:42.1 | And the award for public service honors people who show |
| 2:45.9 | strength and integrity and that really mirrors who Gerald Ford was and I probably knew him as well or better than most people because I served |
| 2:58.6 | as his chief White House photographer. I was with him every day of his presidency on Air Force One in the Oval Office. |
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