No matter what you say, you still took a beautiful, colorful, historic garden with graceful cherry trees & you destroyed its charm and dignity. His doctors said, "We can't treat you at the White House. https://t.co/LU243SANF1 pic.twitter.com/PuVOSjxx5w, Office of Melania Trump (@OfficeofMelania) August 8, 2021. Would dismantling Interstate 980 repair damage to Black neighborhoods? "It's been a long time coming.". Beverly Wright, executive director of the Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, said the DOJ's lawsuit helps ensure that Black communities in Louisiana don't have to live with deadly pollution. How long could I be contagious before a positive virus test. Kohrs also said that Trumps name was mentioned often during the special grand jury proceedings and told CNN host Kate Bolduan that there are no major plot twists waiting for you, according to Fox News. She has previously reported or edited for Bay Area news and lifestyle publications, including Walnut Creek Patch, and Diablo, Oakland and Alameda magazines, as well as The Nation in Bangkok, Thailand and The Economist. Subscribe to MSNBC:. Louisiana's communities of color already suffer from pollution and COVID. You've got this pandemic. Michael Beschloss: Our lives depend 'on how alert, healthy a president is', First-ever A.I. So if the president tells Sean Conley, "I want you not to tell the public everything about my illness," he's not exactly in a position to, you know, go out and be truthful and say everything that's going on. George H.W. Plus, get a FREE ebook when you sign up! The region contains several hot spots where cancer risks are far above levels deemed acceptable by the EPA. It began in 1937, and its original architect was Franklin Roosevelt, who was the president of the United States at the time, who was an amateur architect. On April 1, Robert S. Kaplan, president and CEO of the Dallas Fed, discussed national and global economic issues with Michael Beschloss, historian, leadership scholar and author of 10 books, most recently the. Last week, after months of downplaying the seriousness of coronavirus and resisting precautionary measures like masks and social distancing, President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19. Beschloss: Well, it's really dangerous, because someone like Putin or Xi in China or others who may not wish America very well, they know that in our system, we give so much power to a president. We know that Mike Pence was exposed at the superspreader event when Judge Barrett was announced in the Rose Garden, which some people are now sadly referring to as the Rose Garden massacre. He has more than a half-million Twitter followers. "NOT MCCARTHYISM: Spending years accusing your political adversaries of being secret Kremlin agents treasonously working for Moscow to subvert American interests.". Beschloss: Many times, but not in modern times the way we're seeing. Last year, the EPA said it had evidence that Black residents face an increased cancer risk from the chemical plant and that state officials allowed the pollution to remain too high. Presidential historian Michael Beschloss says "the sight of Mark Meadows this morning without a mask was shocking to me." Aired on 10/2/2020. All Access Digital offer for just 99 cents! And the first thing I said is, you know, is this the result of whatever kind of medication the president's taking? And so, obviously, we're in different times with a different president and different kind of administration. The latest is called Presidents of War. A column by Michael Beschloss about historical episodes that resonate today. Michael Richard Beschloss (born November 30, 1955) is an American historian specializing in the United States presidency. "Back in the U.S.S.R.: "Russia's powerful defence minister has not been seen in public for almost two weeks, prompting claims that he is suffering from health problems amid the Kremlin's stalled invasion of Ukraine," reports @thetimes." Franklin Roosevelt was running for a fourth term, and by the way, he was sicker than he allowed people to know. But in the meantime, in the situation room of the White House, George H.W. He was told by his military people, "Stop sending Americans to Europe to fight World War I. Bush, when he was president, loved his Secret Service agents, you know, thought so much of them, looked out for them so much that on Christmas, his family wanted to go back to their home in Texas. They should do it because that's their obligation as public servants. Lee: As bad as things are right now, and, you know, as journalists always being careful not to overly alarm folks, right, and that this isn't the first time a president has gotten sick or ill. Throughout this entire pandemic, 675,000 Americans killed by this thing, Wilson never once gave a public statement about what was going on. The problem is that, and this is not only restricted to Donald Trump. Democrats at the time said it was illegal for Donald Trump to use the White House to host a blatantly partisan political event. He's met or exceeded all standard hospital discharge criteria. So most likely, this election, which is always a referendum on the incumbent president when he is running for re-election, people are going to have to answer the question. Like, what's the big impact here? Some social media users postedsimilar photos of prominent Democrats like President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris pointing at hearing witnesses during their time asU.S. I think we're pretty near out of the clear. So Michael, thank you very much. What did Wilson do about that as commander in chief? It was. A presidential historian, Mr. Beschloss is the author of nine books and a contributor to NBC News and "PBS NewsHour." If they're secretive, if they're doing things to the president that are designed to keep the public from knowing what's going on, that's not best for the health of the president himself. Miss Manners: I shouldn't call because the phone scares people? The Trump campaign announced that all of the presidents activities will be conducted virtually and at the moment, the vice presidential debate between Vice President Mike Pence and Sen. Kamala Harris is still scheduled for Oct. 7. "Add Beschloss to the list of people broken by Trump," conservative writer Erick Erickson tweeted. In it, Conley confirmed Trump and first lady Melania Trump had tested positive, and suggested that the couple would remain in quarantine at the White House, where they would continue to work. Powered and implemented by FactSet Digital Solutions. Dwight Eisenhower in the summer of 1956 was running for re-election. You know, you've got a president who's having some teeth removed, and he's under general anesthesia. Many might be familiar with the hospital, because they treat a lot of veterans returning from war, injured, right? Archival Recording #2: The White House said, "At 7:09 this morning, President Bush officially invoked the 25th Amendment, temporarily transferring power to Vice President Dick Cheney.". Children are particularly vulnerable. He said, "Well, that'll make me unpopular. Please enter your change or describe your request. And he said, "Wouldn't that be nice to have in some building in Washington?" Because their idea was that, this is just going to be a formal process. And what the law of history says over the last 200 years is, when a president gets sick, it's in his interest for his aides and doctors and himself to be as truthful in public as possible about his condition and about his treatment. Conley: Good afternoon, everyone. Local activists have long targeted the plant, arguing that nearby air monitoring demonstrates the plant is a danger to St. John the Baptist Parish residents. For her tweet, defending her redesign, Melania Trump didnt not get the same love that her social media posts received when she was first lady, when followers would heap praise for her elegance and her time as first lady. Oct. 2, 2020. [3] And the result, just as you say was, he was putting the lives of those Secret Service agents in that car, and I think there was at least one doctor, in danger unnecessarily. Ratified in 1967, the 25th Amendment to the Constitution set up a line of succession and what terms needed to be met for the amendment to go into effect. On Saturday, Dr. Conley omitted that the president had actually received oxygen. Beschloss: It's a real problem, because in this case, this is not chain of command, but you've got his campaign manager is sick, the chairman of the Republican Party is sick, members of the White House staff. ET Friday, the White House shared a signed memo from Dr. Sean Conley, current physician to the president. It hasn't always been a promise that's been kept by presidents, but we've got to make sure that a contemporary president keeps it now, because our safety and the safety of our families, so much depends on how healthy he is. Yours is for you, mine is for me, but we didn't run for president. Beschloss: Well, if you've got a sick president, we don't know what kind of shape he's in, there's no precedent for anything like this. Number one, he did want to look strong and presidential. (CHEERS) It was, to say the least, a stunning moment that kinda left me speechless. Mellon also felt strongly about planting the trees, both to provide shade during hot Washington D.C. summers but also to offer a sense of height to the garden and to make it seemed less boxed in by the white walls of the West Wing, reports said. Beschloss: If he does, it's obscene. Harriette Cole: I don't want the neighbor's kids at my house, Dear Abby: My wife said she doesn't like it, but it's part of my life, Ask Amy: I feel guilty for not speaking up about my co-worker's activities, Ask Amy: I'm your cabin housekeeper, and you apparently have no idea what I do. The program features hard-hitting interviews - a hallmark of Todds Sunday program - in addition to signature segments such as Im Obsessed With, which highlights topics about which Todd is especially passionate. [3] [4] [5] He is the author of nine books on the presidency. He needed pretty radical surgery, and his aides said, "Mr. President, you know, you're up for re-election about four or five months. Shortly after 1 a.m. What is supposed to happen when a president is incapacitated? Or that they are there to steal money. President Trump remains in good spirits, has mild symptoms, and has been working throughout the day, White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told reporters at the White House Friday. "President who have big domestic trouble are tempted to get involved in unnecessary wars to distract the public," says historian Michael Beschloss, author of "Presidents of War." They . Is he someone who said, you know, "We're now three years into our involvement in World War II, and Franklin Roosevelt is a great, strong man, and Thomas Dewey the opponent would be weak"? Number two, he's running for re-election in less than a month. Thank you for being here. Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews was also fond of making McCarthy references, frequently usingSen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas as the basis for comparison. "Our suit aims to stop Denka's dangerous pollution," she said in a statement. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. He had this enormous scar, and there were rumors that Johnson was in for cancer or something worse. But what right does the American public have to full access to this kind of information? Lee: It really is, but are we actually more vulnerable today than we were last week, before we found out the president had COVID? But the amendment is too vague and has largely gone unused, said Jeffrey Engel, who directs the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. But like some on the left, he suffers from Trump obsession. Steve Lickteig is executive producer of audio. People said to Wilson within the White House, "You've gotta make a speech to the American people and warn them about influenza and tell them how to take care of themselves." You know, he hikes up his shirt so you see his large belly with this long scar that's about a foot-and-a-half long. A breakdown of what was removed or changed in the AP African American Studies framework, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. Cabinet should have joined in. The lawsuit demands that Denka eliminate dangerous emissions of chloroprene. Denka's facility makes neoprene, a flexible, synthetic rubber used to produce common goods such as wetsuits, laptop sleeves, orthopedic braces and automotive belts and hoses. There were other national security officials including the Secretary of State Al Haig. I remember times when the Rose Garden was remembered for happy things, like, giving medals to astronauts as President Kennedy did in the early 1960s. CNN reported last August that the garden was in need of a significant upgrade because of drainage issues and because roots and trees had become overgrown. After the break, I talk to Michael Beschloss about the optics of a sick president, and what this all means in the lead-up to the election. I learned a lot about COVID. Lee: You know, you've been studying this stuff for a very long time, and with the benefit of history to kind of put some context around what we're seeing now, I wonder from your perspective, how do you think this will actually shape or reshape the election? People instead said she was the ignorant one for questioning Beschlosss qualifications, given that he has authored nine books, and is a trustee of the White House Historical Association and the National Archives Foundation, and sits on the board of the Smithsonians National Museum of American History. Was this an attempt to look strong and presidential? Lee: That is actually amazing. 12th floor Regan visited the parish in 2021 during a five-day trip from Mississippi to Texas that highlighted low-income, mostly minority communities adversely affected by industrial pollution. Because of COVID-19 restrictions, Trump had been having press conferences in the garden rather than inside the briefing room. I do not understand why that is happening in person. 2023 FOX News Network, LLC. And as we speak this morning, he's sending out tweet after tweet. And to go back to the Reagan question, in the debate that he had with Jimmy Carter ten days before the 1980 election, Reagan said. It's bad for the war effort.". And the other thing is that, in history, presidents usually get medical care that's of better quality if their doctors and their people are telling the public the truth. I'm running for re-election, therefore, tell the public as much as possible about my condition, so that they will be reassured that I can function as a leader for more than four more years.". Over the past 24 hours, the president has continued to improve. This isnt the first time the public has faced whether a presidents health could interfere with their ability to serve their role. We're working hard to get me all the way back. Subscribe for Global Perspectives updates. I'm Trymaine Lee. Archival Recording #3: In this particular case, he looked at all the circumstances, the length of the procedure, the relationship with the vice president, things going on domestically and internationally, and made the decision it was the right thing to do for this country. We begin with a breaking news, the unprecedented health crisis unfolding at this hour in America's highest office. I don't, and it is I think a legitimate thing for people to inquire about this and be anxious about that. Alcindor talked about a Democrat who compared Biden's choices to the Avengers, adding "it felt like we are being rescued from this craziness that we've all lived President-elect Joe Biden announced he will nominate former U.S. ambassador to Libya and Obama official Linda Thomas-Greenfield for U.S. It's not only about him. Senator in history pointed menacingly at witnesses like this? Michael Beschloss is NBC News' Presidential Historian. In the past 10 days, at least 15 states hit new single-day highs for cases. Emily Kohrs, the forewoman of a special grand jury that investigated the former president and his allies for their efforts to contest the 2020 presidential elections result, gave multiple interviews on cable networks, including CNN and MSNBC, saying she anticipated indictments to result from the probe and expressing excitement at the possibility of confronting former President Trump. Evisceration of White House Rose Garden was completed a year ago this month, and here was the grim resultdecades of American history made to disappear: @dougmillsnyt pic.twitter.com/78OqjkoOPt, Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) August 7, 2021, On Sunday, Melania Trumps office responded by calling Beschloss ignorant. The tweet also said his photo was misleading and dishonorable, and he should should never be trusted as a professional historian. The tweet claimed that the Rose Garden is graced with a healthy & colorful blossoming of roses., . pic.twitter.com/e7wIdqYA6l, In further critique of Melania Trumps overhaul, Beschloss got a bit cheeky by likening her to a crazed Joan Crawford (as played by Faye Dunaway) destroying her rose garden in the 1981 film Mommie Dearest., Angry Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) eviscerates garden, in Mommie Dearest (1981): pic.twitter.com/YZxOtQ8M5h. He had two colonoscopies, and he simply wrote a letter to Congress saying, "While I'm under anesthesia and obviously unable to function, I want my vice president, Dick Cheney, to act in my stead.". Beschloss has served as a historian at the Smithsonian Institution, a scholar at the University of Oxford and a senior fellow of the Annenberg Foundation. Is this someone who is serious about issues of racial justice? Please check your inbox to confirm. CLIMATE CHANGE:Louisiana's communities of color already suffer from pollution and COVID. "It's a positive move in the right direction," she said of the federal lawsuit. Lee: In what was a surprise to many earlier today, the president tweeted that he would be discharged from Walter Reed this evening. Critics jumped on Beschloss for using a typical photo of a lawmaker questioning a witness in a flailing effort to compare Hawley to an unpopular historical figure. "I remember what the previous administration did," Pompeo said Tuesday. It was the year after World War I. He was in just that presidential suite that you and I are talking about. He's long since compromised any credibility he had. Beschloss is a historian, leadership scholar and author of 10 books, most recently the New York Times and Wall Street Journal best-seller Presidents of War.. Beschloss appears regularly as the NBC News presidential historian and contributor to the PBS NewsHour and has been a contributing columnist to the New York Times.He won an Emmy and received six honorary degrees . Our executive producer is Ellen Frankman. Not long after that, White House physician, Dr. Sean Conley, held a press conference. Conley: He's not needed any this morning today at all, that's right. And so let's talk about the doctors and nurses at Walter Reed and how they're working with the White House physician, Sean Conley. A lot of the presidential decision-making was done by Wilson's wife, Edith, who was not equipped for it, not had she been elected. He co-authored with Caroline Kennedy the Number #1 New York Times best seller Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life with John F. Kennedy (2011). After a weekend stay, during which he received multiple experimental treatments for the virus, Trump tweeted on Monday that he would be leaving the hospital that evening. Michael Beschloss is the presidential historian for NBC News, and the author of ten books on the presidency. 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