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emotional strengths and how he was able to put these past hurts behind him to not feel the need to retaliation. and i think obama definitely wanted to have that kind of temperament. he also had a sense even then that he wanted to be a president that would be remembered in history. >> on "meet the press" a few weeks back, you talked about the president obama and how he should channel teddy roosevelt. then he subsequently goes to kansas and gives a significant speech in the same place where president roosevelt did. i mean, is he listening to you? what did you think of that is it. >> the one thing about president obama is he really does love history. i mean, identify been part of three history yans' dinners where a group of my fellow historians go down, tell him what our presidents would do so that there might be a teddy roosevelt guy, an icer, jfk, lincoln person. he loves to learn to what other presidents can i learn from. >> have you done that rently --

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