Barr Testimony & Accidental Presidents (with Jared Cohen)

Barr Testimony & Accidental Presidents


THE Q&A
Bill Barr & Bob Mueller
Bill Barr’s hearing before the Senate Judiciary CommitteeAttorney General Bill Barr’s letter summarizing Mueller’s principal conclusionsBob Mueller’s March 27th letter to Bill Barr“Mueller complained that Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe,” Washington Post, 4/30/19“Trump asked his lawyer to cross legal lines. The Mueller report shows how he pushed back,” Washington Post, 4/19/19“William Barr Testimony Highlights: Attorney General Says He Thinks ‘Spying Did Occur’ on Trump Campaign,” New York Times, 4/10/19

Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Kindergarten Cop,” 1999

THE INTERVIEW
Jared Cohen
Accidental Presidents: Eight Men Who Changed America, Simon & SchusterChildren of Jihad: A Young American’s Travels Among the Youth of the Middle East, Penguin Random HouseJigsaw“Can Alphabet’s Jigsaw Solve Google’s Most Vexing Problems?,” Fast Company, 10/22/17

The Role of the Vice President
“Vice President of the United States (President of the Senate),” United States Senate“‘His Accidency’: The first president to die in office and the Constitutional confusion that followed,” Washington Post, 3/31/19“The U.S. Vice President and Foreign Policy,” Council on Foreign Relations, 9/22/16“How The Value Of The Vice Presidential Pick Has Evolved,” NBC News, 7/13/16“How the vice president became a powerful and influential White House player,” Washington Post, 7/20/16“Why VPs Matter Less Than You Think,” Politico Magazine, 4/11/1“How F.D.R.’s Death Changed the Vice-Presidency,” New Yorker, 4/17/15“Here are a bunch of awful things vice presidents have said about being No. 2,” Washington Post, 10/3/14

Lyndon B. Johnson
“Trip to Texas: Swearing-In Ceremony Aboard Air Force One, Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) As President,” JFK Presidential Library and Museum Archives, 1963“The Johnson Transition,” University of Virginia’s Miller Center“The Divided Legacy of Lyndon B. Johnson,” The Atlantic, 9/7/18“LBJ secures full presidential term, Nov. 3, 1964,” Politico, 11/03/17

Theodore Roosevelt
“The Life of Theodore Roosevelt,” National Park Service“Theodore Roosevelt Birthplace,” National Park Service“Municipal Administration: The New York Police Force,” The Atlantic, September 1897“How This Photo of Theodore Roosevelt in Hunting Gear Helped Jump-Start the American Conservation Movement,” Time, 5/1/18

Harry Truman & his Secretaries of State
“Harry S. Truman,” University of Virginia’s Miller Center“Harry S. Truman: Foreign Affairs,” University of Virginia's Miller Center“The Year the Veepstakes Really Mattered,” Politico, 7/10/16“Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Dean Gooderham Acheson (1893–1971),” Office of the Historian, State Dept“Biographies of the Secretaries of State: George Catlett Marshall (1880–1959),” Office of the Historian, State Dept

Yalta
“The Yalta Conference,1945,” The Office of The Historian“Dividing the Spoils,” Smithsonian Magazine, December 2002

Calvin Coolidge
“Calvin Coolidge,” University of Virginia’s Miller Center

Millard Fillmore
“Millard Fillmore, 12th Vice President (1849-1850),” United States Senate

William Harrison
“William Harrison,” University of Virginia Miller Center

Chester Arthur
“Chester Arthur,” University of Virginia Miller Center

The Assassinations of Presidents
“President's Assassin Shot To Death In Jail Corridor By A Dallas Citizen; Grieving Throngs View Kennedy Bier,” New York Times, November 1963“Close calls: when American presidents diced with death,” The Guardian, 4/6/19

Sarah Palin
“Analysis: Palin rocked campaign, for good and bad,” CNN, 11/6/08

2020 Election
“In the 2020 election, an age-old question looms,” Washington Post, 12/3/18

Historians
David McCulloughDoris Kearns GoodwinJulian Zelizer and Kevin Kruse’s interview on Stay Tuned

Adam McKay
Adam McKay’s interview on Stay Tuned

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