Details were trickling out. This was in the very early stage moving thernet, story out before it was published in the magazine. That was a watershed moment. It really was. It was a difficult story to deal with at the white house. A made a did decision early on that this story was going to just drown out anything else they were doing. One of the decisions they made about which was an effective way of dealing with as much as they could, was to take the questions out of the briefing room. And it be a legal question, then have the counsels office be the one that responded. The counsels office then hired someone he hired somebody, jim kennedy, who was the indications person, and i do not think he was a lawyer, but he was the one who would deal with those questions. Because, if it was dealt with day after day after day am a as ultimately was in the briefing room, it would crowd everything they were doing. It kind of mirrored what it was tak was onesidents this, which was to show up for work
First formerly i was able to debate it. Mitt romney was side was that night. He walked away with it. Maybe he wouldve done better the first time. Seriously. Not everything i say is ironic or sarcastic. I mean the words they speak. That plane brings back memories. That very vehicle is where i learned we lost the presidency in 1980. If you go up and look at it again tonight, the first section seat i was sitting there. Its in the book, if you buy the book to me, im sitting there, carter is behind, jody powell standing there with a big pill in his arms. Is holding a pillow. Its saturday night before the election and jody will go to sleep in the hallway. There used to be a punk or. Cigarettes and put. Times have changed. Everyone was all smoking. I had just gotten the word in that seat that were going to lose by 10. We got the word in seattle the last stop, it was an amazing sprint. Thats in the book. I want to talk about my book a little bit but really i want to talk about what its about.
Physicians, both sides have access to the information they need. This concludes our session. Thank you to all the reporters for joining us today. Retired marine lieutenant ben connable. En harry holzer. And then a reporter with the associated press. Your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. Washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 eastern on cspan. Tonight, retired professor and activistsvietnam war dsouza. Inesh we started out as a outlutionary you started in bin laden mode. You sounded totally different today. He talked about teaching, you talked about socratic doubt. What happened to that Old Revolutionary . I feel i still a revolutionary if you mean if what you mean by revolutionary is having a fully worked out program in which we can overthrow government and move forward, no, i am not that. But if you mean someone who is willing to dive into contradictions and fight for more stability and balance. I see the need for a fundamental change. To me, the struggle against
Biography which ive never been able to explain, but it happens. After i finished my last book, which was the third of a trilogy on Theodore Roosevelt i was looking around for another subject. My agent said to me, what about edison . About time somebody about did a book on him. I said i dont think i want to do another enormous biography, so i said no to the idea. But a few months later, mysterious how these things happen, i was at an airport in florida, fort myers, which is near where edison used to have his winter plantation, next to henry fords and i was running to catch a plane and came across this airport lobby display of a huge cutout, lifesize cutout of thomas edison. Thun of these photographic silhouettes. I literally barged into it. It was posed next to his and lecture find modelt that henry ford had given him. So here am i looking into Thomas Edisons eyes and i suddenly became overwhelmed with curiosity. This guy is fascinating, i have to write about him and all the way back to
This campaign is people see what did i say i was going to do in 2008, and what have i delivered, and they can have some confidence that the things i say i mean. Good morning, everybody. Thats a beautiful shoot. Bales of hay there. Its thursday, october 25th. Welcome to morning joe. With us on set, we have National Affairs editor for new York Magazine and msnbc political analyst, John Heilemann. We also have pulitzer prizewinning historian jon meacham. Thats a nice smile. Yeah. Hi, willie. And willie geist is here as well. Willie, you know, when president ial campaigns are coming down to the final stretch, we all know who they go to, right . Right. How do you set the shot up, right . Exactly. Whats the angle . Whats the image . And who do you go to . You go to tvs own willie geist, right . You do. Let me ask you, willie, what were you thinking yesterday when you decided im going to put the president of the United States down in some corn. By a hay bale. With bales of hay all around to m