Peter Baker
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291 appearances
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3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 9 Jan
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I think you'll see very quickly moves on issues related to the economy, on tariffs against other countries, or at least using that as a threat in negotiations. And I think you'll see some effort to solve the Ukraine war. At least he says he'll try to solve it by making some sort of a deal. We don't know what that deal would look like, but he's already talking about meeting with Vladimir Putin.
The deal that his own vice president has outlined is the kind of deal that Moscow has already said it likes, which is that Russia gets to keep the country that it illegally seized by force and Ukraine would have to declare its neutrality and therefore in effect surrender. That's the kind of thing that would have been rejected in the last four years.
But under Trump, it may be where this is heading.
Peter, is there anything else on your mind on this inauguration day?
What I think a lot of people are watching to see is what Trump has learned from the first term, right? He came into office as the first president in our history who had not had a single day in public office of the military, didn't understand how government worked. Well, four years later, eight years later, really now, he understands a lot more about it.
He had learned how to turn the levers of power. And so in a second term, all the things he tried to do in a first term but couldn't, but was talked out of, was thwarted or obstructed in some way or another, he's going to have more ability to figure out how to enact. If we thought the first term was eventful and volatile, well, buckle up because we're in for quite a ride.
Peter Baker, thanks for your time.
Thank you. Appreciate it.
At least 15 dead and dozens injured. The FBI says they're investigating this as a potential act of terrorism.
Yeah, it's really interesting, Michael, because, you know, I've spent the last few years writing Jimmy Carter's obituary, and I know that sounds a little weird, but that's something we do at the newspaper, right, to be prepared for these big moments.
And researching and reflecting on his legacy, I've concluded that it's really hard to imagine anybody like Jimmy Carter ever being elected president again. I mean, he was a very unusual man, and it was a very unusual presidency.
Well, first of all, we should know that Jimmy Carter, it's the American story in the sense of our mythology, how we believe in ourselves. He comes from very humble beginnings in rural Georgia, you know, as a peanut farmer. He wore blue jeans and had dirty fingernails. You know, his childhood home had no running water or electricity. And he was openly religious. He talked about the Bible a lot.
He liked to quote verses from it. By the time he's running for president of the United States, he'd basically been a one-term governor with no connections to Washington. And that meant that he was running a campaign as an outsider.
Now, I mean, today that's kind of a cliche, right? A lot of people run for president these days as an outsider, but he really was an outsider in every possible sense of that word. It defined his identity, and it defined his campaign, and ultimately it would define his presidency.
And he was the man that was right for that moment, it felt like, because the country was hungry for an outsider.
I hope you share it. You know, in 1976, when he was running for president, you know, America had been through these multiple traumas. The war in Vietnam, which killed roughly 50,000 American troops and divided the nation. And the angry and often violent reactions to the civil rights movement. And you had Watergate, the scandal that forced a president to resign for the first time.
You know, things that are really sort of tore apart our society in a lot of ways as we struggle with who we were and what we wanted to be. And so Carter shows up at this particular moment is kind of a theoretically at least an antidote to some of that. And he tells the country, I'll never tell a lie.
I will never lie to you at a moment when that really matters. And unlike a lot of politicians, people really thought he may have meant it. He might have actually been telling the truth about telling the truth. He might have actually been telling the truth. Now, it's really hard for a politician to not lie, ever. But he was committed to that.
And he wins the election.
He beats an incumbent president, Gerald Ford, who was Nixon's former vice president, and in many ways the final shadow of the Watergate era. And pretty much from the get-go... Carr begins redefining the presidency as an institution. You know, he banned the playing of Hail the Chief when he walked in the room. He sold the presidential yacht called the Sequoia.
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