she said, it s a crummy job. mike didn t have the same impression. first, you. on the david remnick piece, read through it and the incoming in so quick and so fast and you never get to be the president you want to be. george w. bush was going to have a restraint in foreign policy and barack obama was going to do all of these different things and, instead, he is talking about nsa and gitmo is still open, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. right. what did you think when you were reading the piece? and talk about why it s a crummy job. i think you run for president and the entire objective is so humanize your candidate to show the kind of person they would be be, how they would transform the office of the presidency. that is our romance novel, right, in american politics? we want to fall in love with our candidate. every single thing about being president is dehumanizing. the scrutiny of the press corps forces all of them into near isolation. the low gistics of the white
it has been just over a year since former penn state football coach jerry sandusky was accused of sexually abusing a number of children. now a kentucky youth coach is facing 14 charges of sexually abusing six boys. in one case the coach, 46-year-old michael sweitzer, allegedly slipped a sleeping boy to one of the boys before molesting him. reporter: imagine your reaction if your neighbor was charged with sodomy and sexual abuse, a neighbor where your son would play. look at the property, a ball field, play set and trampoline. mike didn t seem like he would do that. and spence was down here playing, they played whiffle ball in the back yard.
was saying to ike, you phony s.o.b., you won t put out all this information, and i m out here on the cooker having to explain my finances. nixon knew just what he was doing. he had no idea what eisenhower did not want to reveal, which was that namely eisenhower had gotten a great tax deal himself. his memoir crusading europe had earned him $50,000, and he paid the capital gains tax, not income tax. so ike didn t want the whole world to know about that. watching nixon right now, you realize how extraordinarily what an extraordinary speech it was. he was under such amazing pressure. here s this 39-year-old junior senator from california ask, and he s the running mate for the most beloved man in america, the five-star general, the legendary dwight d. eisenhower, and he was really trying to survive. that s what that speech was about. i agree with everything you said, jeff. i have very interesting feelings about richard nixon, he s very complicated, as we all know.
72. the best reason to have you on is to have you on. but here we are, i don t think it s a side moment, but i have to ask the jack kennedy question, what was he like? interestingly he was exactly what you saw on the air in the office. he was feisty, he was tough, electric, high energy. he was playful, and you know he did pieces where you saw that. mike didn t just do the hard hitting interviews. i don t know how many of you remember his interview with ti in a turner. he was flirting with her, and he fell in love, and let you see that smitten. he upped our game, made us all better, and he insisted that we be tough ourselves. i love you starting off saying he was fear less.
great lesley stahl. who first met wallace back in 72. the best reason to have you on is to have you on. but here we are, i don t think it s a side moment, but i have to ask the jack kennedy question, what was he like? interestingly he was exactly what you saw on the air in the office. he was feisty, he was tough, electric, high energy. he was playful, and you know he did pieces where you saw that. mike didn t just do the hard hitting interviews. i don t know how many of you remember his interview with ti in a turner. he was flirting with her, and he fell in love, and let you see that smitten. he upped our game, made us all better, and he insisted that we