Dr. Conley wouldn't discuss the details of Trump's lung scan, and again refused to answer questions about when the president last tested negative for the virus. He knew that Americans felt that their personal security depended on his ability to lead, and he wanted to reassure them that he was able to serve as president, Beschloss said. ", Biden: My Cabinet "Will Tell Me What I Need To Know, Not What I Want To Know", Pompeo on Biden Transition: "We'll Do Everything That's Required By Law," "We'll Make This Work", Kamala Harris: Biden Cabinet Nominees Have "Unwavering Belief In America's Ideals". And that was one of the most serious times of the last 60 years, because everyone in that room knew that foreign leaders sometimes suspect that when a president is in the hospital and somewhat incapacitated, if they want to strike, that's the time. 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Archival Recording: The president, I'm told by a senior administration official, will be working out of a suite there for the next several days as a precautionary measure, precautionary perhaps, but it is also historic after the president's diagnosis sent shockwaves through this country. And you know what made me think, Trymaine? Nearly eight months after she left the White House, Melania Trump is defending one of her most controversial actions as first lady: The overhaul of the White House Rose Garden last summer ahead of the Republican National Convention, which was hosted there. Reagan, Johnson, other presidents have had surgeries here. PBS White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor weighed in on Biden's cabinet picks on Tuesday's edition of Nicolle Wallace's MSNBC show. Could he actually come out of this stronger somehow? And people should have known that he had advanced cardiovascular disease, but he was winning World War II. Lee: You know, let's talk a little bit about the history of Walter Reed Medical Center. We depend on a president to protect us in all sorts of ways. All of these things are crucial to understanding when the president was or if he still is contagious. Subscribe to Heres the Deal, our politics I don't, and it is I think a legitimate thing for people to inquire about this and be anxious about that. And the first positive test he received was after his return from Bedminster. Denka, a Japanese company that bought the rubber-making plant in 2015, did not immediately respond to messages seeking comment. Former attorney Alex Murdaugh's double murder trial continues with closing arguments: Watch live. Throughout the ordeal, the president has continued to communicate with the American public through Twitter and video messages. Archival Recording: For more than two hours this morning, Vice President Dick Cheney became the president. Wilson said, "I don't care." Quotes displayed in real-time or delayed by at least 15 minutes. Lyndon Johnson in 1965 had a gallbladder surgery at what is now Walter Reed, was then Bethesda Naval Hospital. Conley: He's not needed any this morning today at all, that's right. 2, 2020. That's the measure of virus particles in his body. And how important is messaging in moments like this, in terms of how we engage with friends and foes around the world? No matter what you say, you still took a beautiful, colorful, historic garden with graceful cherry trees & you destroyed its charm and dignity. Beschloss argues the amendment is underused. He was given surgery to take out the bullet. Like, is this an actual compromise in national security? In the wake of the Jan. 6 Capitolriot, Hawley has come under fierce criticismforobjecting to swing state electors during the Electoral College certification of Biden's victory over Donald Trump. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass. NBC MUST APOLOGIZE FOR 'BIGOTED STATEMENTS' ABOUT ISRAEL ON 'SNL,' MSNBC, MEDIA WATCHDOG SAYS, Beschloss has written 10 books, the most recent of which was 2018's "Presidents of War.". Original music by Hannis Brown. '", George W. Bush did that twice when he was president, 2002, 2007. We dont have a lot of practice with the 25th Amendment, Engel said. The economy is in free-fall in many places, and people are suffering badly. Did he do his best to keep people's jobs and keep their security at the time the economy began to plunge? And he couldn't do it, because he was in a hospital bed. Lee: Less than a month, we have an election of higher stakes than we can remember. Dear Abby: Why do they imply my husband is a freak? 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. The presidents that I've talked about, you know, have all been out there, so they're accustomed to this. Michael R. Beschloss | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster Michael R. Beschloss Photo Credit: About The Author Get updates about Michael R. Beschloss and recommended reads from Simon & Schuster. [3] He called her project an evisceration of Jacqueline Kennedys original concept, said decades of history were made to disappear, and compared the results to the shaggy lawn and box-row hedging youd see at a suburban office park. 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. "Millions of voters concerned about election integrity deserve to be heard," Hawley said in a statement at the time. Michael Beschloss is the presidential historian for NBC News, and the author of ten books on the presidency. Would dismantling Interstate 980 repair damage to Black neighborhoods? "I was going through life happily, not spouting any views I might have on healthcare. One of the most famous cases of a presidents health drawing national concern occurred in 1919 after President Woodrow Wilson caught influenza during treaty negotiations after the end of World War I, said Barbara Perry, director of presidential studies at the University of Virginias Miller Center. Melania Trump, or rather The Office of Melania Trump, felt compelled to speak out about her landscape design choices after presidential historian Michael Bechloss on Saturday marked the grim anniversary of her overhaul. This is a guy who was half-blind and half-paralyzed lying in a bed upstairs in the White House unable to function. And Roosevelt had been to the Nebraska State Capitol, of all places, which is one tall tower of sort of light-colored stone. Presidential historian Michael Beschloss says the sight of Mark Meadows this morning without a mask was shocking to me.Oct. There are many people who will remember the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. This is who we depend on for the safety of ourselves and our friends and our children. The revamp also was needed to fulfill the dynamic needs of the modern presidency, including making the space more amenable to TV cameras and other tech needs of the press corps, Vox reported. So you've got a government that is not at full strength, and you've got a government, which under Donald Trump has been very much dependent on the word from the boss. Wilson later attempted to conduct a whistlestop tour of the U.S. West to promote the League of Nations and to rally the public ahead of his attempt at a third term in office. 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. Others moreover agreed with Beschlosss view that her redesign butchered the Rose Garden. I've studied this for years. Michael Beschloss provides gripping tales and brilliant inside analysis, revealing the leadership secrets of great Presidents and other towering figures in history. Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) August 22, 2020. . He had a massive stroke, actually 101 years ago exactly this week, oddly enough. Winner of an Emmy award, Beschloss also serves as NBC News Presidential Historian and contributes to thePBS NewsHour. Children are particularly vulnerable. Did he do what he should to avert this pandemic and deal with it when it happened? About Michael Beschloss. 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. But a lot of what this reminds me of historically, Trymaine, is remember I was mentioning Woodrow Wilson. Into America is produced by Isabel Angel, Allison Bailey, Aaron Dalton, Max Jacobs, Barbara Raab, Claire Tighe, Aisha Turner, and Preeti Varathan. 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. There were other national security officials including the Secretary of State Al Haig. ", And Eisenhower with his characteristic honesty and openness said, "It's exactly the opposite. He's not even staying in Washington, just as a basic precaution, Trymaine. MISSISSIPPI WATER CRISIS:Flooding broke open Jackson's water crisis, but it can't be disentangled from race, experts say. 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 charts, diagrams of what was going on. And in 1981, you were mentioning earlier, Trymaine, the shooting of Ronald Reagan at the end of March that year. He's not going to be able to function for a couple of hours. President Donald Trumps coronavirus diagnosis has raised pressing questions about what happens when a president becomes ill in office. Now the way our system works, the vice president should have been able to take on at least some of the decision-making. Beschloss: If he does, it's obscene. Born in Chicago, Beschloss is an alumnus of Phillips Academy (Andover) and Williams College, where he studied under leadership author James MacGregor Burns. The URL for the page will be included in a hidden field when the form is submitted. David Rutz is a senior editor at Fox News. We're working hard to get me all the way back. Longtime Beschloss-watchers will also be relieved to know that he hasn't become some kind of partisan, either. I learned a lot about COVID. He's in the five-room presidential suite on the third floor, where he's getting inhalation treatment and chest massages to help relieve chest pain. Because their idea was that, this is just going to be a formal process. 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. It's bad for the war effort.". And as we speak this morning, he's sending out tweet after tweet. Bechloss suggested the trees were removed so that cameras could better capture Melania and Donald Trump making a grand entrance at the Republican National Convention, via the colonnade leading into the Rose Garden. And when a president is sworn in, one of the obligations he's got in exchange for this enormous power a president is given, and I think presidents are given too much power. Lee: The White House originally described his symptoms as quote, "mild," but on Friday, within 18 hours of announcing his diagnosis, the president was on the Marine One helicopter bound for the presidential suite of Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. 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.". So if you've got a president incapacitated, and in this case in Walter Reed, on drugs that we really don't know what he's taking, steroids perhaps. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Archival Recording: He has not received any supplemental oxygen? George H.W. Mr. Nixon's doctors said other visitors would be limited, because as they emphasized at a news conference, they want him to rest. His misleading information is dishonorable & he should never be trusted as a professional historian. Michael Beschloss provides gripping tales and brilliant inside analysis, revealing the leadership secrets of great Presidents and other towering figures in history. He's met or exceeded all standard hospital discharge criteria. So Johnson in his normal way, when he got out of the hospital, met with reporters. Throughout this entire pandemic, 675,000 Americans killed by this thing, Wilson never once gave a public statement about what was going on. Many might be familiar with the hospital, because they treat a lot of veterans returning from war, injured, right? During the tour, on Oct. 2, 1919, he suffered a massive stroke and took months to recover. Beschloss, a native of Chicago, is an alumnus of Phillips Academy (Andover) and Williams College, where he studied under leadership author James MacGregor Burns. 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. Archival Recording #2: The president insisted on carrying on his schedule, and we had difficulty in convincing him that he really was a sick man. A breakdown of what was removed or changed in the AP African American Studies framework, Your California Privacy Rights/Privacy Policy. And he said, "Wouldn't that be nice to have in some building in Washington?" 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. Beschloss: While he was lying in bed, one of his aides went before the Congressional hearings, the Senate hearings on Watergate, and revealed that Nixon had this secret taping system that was taping all of his conversations, both in the office and on the telephone. 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. Thank you for signing up, fellow book lover! He condemned the bloodshed afterward and called for justice against lawbreakers. Someone thought that the pictures were sort of gross, but the point is that Eisenhower was setting an example for modern presidents, which is that, you know, we have the right to know these things. Lee: I like that one. His doctors said, "We can't treat you at the White House. 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