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The President - John Hersey

By John Hersey

Release Date: 2019-09-04

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

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The President has given me permission to take a kind of voyage with himā€”to watch him closely through a working weekā€¦.I will be with him, most of the time, hour in and hour outā€¦.
 
At 8:33 on a rainy Monday in March, 1975, John Hersey sits down on a straight cane-backed chair in the Oval Office to begin soaking up impressions of what happensā€”in post-Watergate Washingtonā€”at the center of American power. Through five and a half days, he will stay close to the President, observing him as he consults with his own staff, with members of Congress, with his Cabinet, with Rockefeller; watching him on the exercise bike, at the barberā€™s, greeting Miss America: absorbing his confidences as he talks after dinner, in the private quarters of the White House, about his childhood and about his college years when it was difficult to make ends meet. 
            Following the President, Hersey observes in detail all the important momentsā€”as well as the incidental onesā€”that show what Gerald Ford is like on the job. In this extraordinary book he builds a brilliant and revealing portrait, letting the reader see Fordā€™s strengths and limitations. And so perceptively does Hersey draw significance from his observations that the insights seem to explode like time bombs. 
 
I have seen all week that it is not easy for Gerald Fordā€¦to make what he refers to, in the language of umpires, as ā€œa tough call.ā€ Yet once he has made such a decision, he does not agonizeā€¦he becomes convinced of its rightness and is stubborn in its defenseā€¦.
 
In reading The President, each of us emerges knowing more than ever before, not only about this imperturbable ā€œironā€ man, the first President we did not elect, but also about how the Presidency really operates. In John Herseyā€™s report we come to understandā€”the man, and the things that persuade him. And we come to senseā€¦how good it would be if in some way he could speakā€”good listener that he isā€”one-to-one with ordinary men and women, his constituents, from whom he has somehow drifted so far away. 

The President - John Hersey

By John Hersey

Release Date: 2019-09-04

Genre: Biographies & Memoirs

(0 ratings)
Read Download
The President has given me permission to take a kind of voyage with himā€”to watch him closely through a working weekā€¦.I will be with him, most of the time, hour in and hour outā€¦.
 
At 8:33 on a rainy Monday in March, 1975, John Hersey sits down on a straight cane-backed chair in the Oval Office to begin soaking up impressions of what happensā€”in post-Watergate Washingtonā€”at the center of American power. Through five and a half days, he will stay close to the President, observing him as he consults with his own staff, with members of Congress, with his Cabinet, with Rockefeller; watching him on the exercise bike, at the barberā€™s, greeting Miss America: absorbing his confidences as he talks after dinner, in the private quarters of the White House, about his childhood and about his college years when it was difficult to make ends meet. 
            Following the President, Hersey observes in detail all the important momentsā€”as well as the incidental onesā€”that show what Gerald Ford is like on the job. In this extraordinary book he builds a brilliant and revealing portrait, letting the reader see Fordā€™s strengths and limitations. And so perceptively does Hersey draw significance from his observations that the insights seem to explode like time bombs. 
 
I have seen all week that it is not easy for Gerald Fordā€¦to make what he refers to, in the language of umpires, as ā€œa tough call.ā€ Yet once he has made such a decision, he does not agonizeā€¦he becomes convinced of its rightness and is stubborn in its defenseā€¦.
 
In reading The President, each of us emerges knowing more than ever before, not only about this imperturbable ā€œironā€ man, the first President we did not elect, but also about how the Presidency really operates. In John Herseyā€™s report we come to understandā€”the man, and the things that persuade him. And we come to senseā€¦how good it would be if in some way he could speakā€”good listener that he isā€”one-to-one with ordinary men and women, his constituents, from whom he has somehow drifted so far away. 

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