Jon Meacham
The Diplomat
People, composure and the difficult conversation held well.
Jon Meacham is a prominent author and historian known for his insights into American history and politics. This interview reveals his leadership style as one that seeks to mediate and build coalitions, advocating for a deeper understanding of complex issues to foster unity.
“We used to say that about Barack Obama in 2009, and it's like those baseball, I say it's like those baseball records in the steroid era. They don't last very long. But he is clearly, I think, going to have a more difficult hand even than we did because the virus will still be with us. The economy is going to be where w”
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“And I was sort of trying to figure out. I looked into this case recently and I was trying to think about it. And I think that's because the Effects of integration were becoming real. It was moving from the theoretical to the real. And so you had folks who felt that they were being somehow replaced, the chant, remember,”
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“Because if we lionize the past, we foreclose its possibility of teaching us. Because if they were so great, if they were on Rushmore, if they were from Olympus, then that makes them more remote. But if they were human beings who got some things right and some things wrong, like Franklin Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt ma”
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The Axe Files with David Axelrod — Ep. 417 — Jon Meacham
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