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Single best idea on a Monday. It has been unlike any Monday in recent history, surveillance history, and in American history. First of all, thanks to the team for an incredible amount of work Saturday, Sunday and this Monday to bring you conversation with true experts about these events, the assassination attempt on a former president, to continue to do the market coverage, the bank earnings coming out and all that, but just to get good conversation and perspective and opinion
about this moment in American history today. Andrew Rutliche was with us with Boden Ronald Feynman of Florida Atlantic with a definitive book, fourteen Chapters of Assassination and Attempted Assassination in America. And Robert D. Kaplan Robert T. Kaplan is my book of the year last year The Loom of Time, which stretches from Morocco across Eurasia. If you will, he is affiliated with Eurasia Group being Bremer Shop over to India in the stands The Loom of Time. I think
it's a great read. And then he has a new read, The Tragic Mind, which is just out. I have not read it yet. I think I have to read it now after the tragic events that we've had. Here is Robert D. Kaplan. I'm Donald Trump.
No, not really. Trump is a really you know, he's a character out of Shakespeare, even if he's never read Shakespeare. But I don't, I don't know. He's pretty he's pretty aggressive towards China. And keep in mind that the that the you know that the actions between the US and the Chinese are getting more and more aggressive, and that is dangerous, you know, because this is what happened before
the Cuban Missile crisis. It was only after the Cuban Missile crisis, after both superpowers stared into the ABYSS that they went on to have the tunked and you know, strategic arms limitation treaties and all of that stuff. So what we need is a real cooling of relations between the US and China, I mean cooling down the rhetoric.
Robert T. Kaplan again, I'm a to do list. That pile of books you have in the living room wherever you read your books. The Tragic Mind is his new effort out just a couple of months ago, as well as The Loom of Time, my book of the year last year. Again any number of perspectives. Matthew Winkler, the founder of Bloomberg News, it's his fault. I'm here and of course editor in chief Emeritus dark in the door
of this morning to speak of South Africa. His great essay with Shinpei about the success of South Africa is seen in the bottom market. Some of that off their new election, a different South Africa polity leading to that. We'll talk about that in the coming days. It's an important essay, hugely read across Europe and Africa. But we had to talk to matt Winkler about these political times.
It was a very informed discussion, and particularly his history he's out of Kenyon and the history of across Pennsylvania into Ohio. That was really really quite something. Here is Matthew Winkler on the moment at hand.
Remember what the record shows, which is that in almost every instance where there's been an attempted assassination, whether it's FDR in thirty three or even Theodore Roosevelt a month before the election before him. More recently in the seventies, there were two attempts on President Gerald Ford and of course that was followed by the attempt on Ronald Reagan. None of those events actually changed, if you will, the outcome. Whatever the outcome turned out to be or was perceived
to be. Ronald Reagan did get a boost in the polls, but then became very unpopular after that. It didn't help Gerald Ford get elected against Jimmy Carter, and Theodore Roosevelt certainly didn't benefit from having a bullet in his chest when the election occurred. So we have to be careful look at the historical record. The historical record says that these assassination attempts so far, at least none of them were significant.
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