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The 50th anniversary of john f. kennedy's assassination brings me to my question of the week. who was the only u.s. president so escape two assassination attempts in the same month? was it grant, jackson, ford, or truman? stay tuned and we'll tell you the correct answer. this week's book of the week is "the man he became." the author looks at just one aspect of franklin roosevelt's life. his struggle with polio and he shares remarkable light on the man who became america's greatest modern president. he shows that it was fdr's battle to overcome this disability that most profoundly turned him i...

Made a variety of different plans and so forth. what the military gets paid to do is think about what ifs and indeed to prepare for them. >> i want to get a sense of your frame of mind while you're here. what are you reading? >> i just read a book about copy ling in india of all things and most recently i've been reading about the history of grant regarding him as the true hero and then over time in the 1900s there was a period when there were disparagingly views of him and then it came up in recent years. >> i have this quote prepared for you from someone that you admire. it is this. i'm not ...

Plans and so forth. what the military gets paid to do is think about what ifs and indeed to prepare for them. >> i want to get a sense of your frame of mind while you're here. what are you reading? >> i just read a book about copy ling in india of all things and most recently i've been reading about the history of grant regarding him as the true hero and then over time in the 1900s there was a period when there were disparagingly views of him and then it came up in recent years. >> i have this quote prepared for you from someone that you admire. it is this. i'm not a politician. never was. i h...

When a bit more disparaging views of him and it's actually he come up again in recent years. >> i have this quote prepared for you from someone that you admired. it's this. i'm not a politician. never was. i hope never to be. you know who said that? >> was it grant? >> it was grant. >> i am not a politician. i will never be. i say that with absolute conviction. >> that's what he said. but does that mean that you're totally clear you would never run for president? >> yeah, i really am. i have said that if you go back to look at what has come to be known as a shermanesque answer on that. no way,...