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Bill O'Reilly | How Presidential Legacies Shape America: An In-depth Look at U.S. Leaders

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James Altucher

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🗓️ 24 September 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, James talks with Bill O'Reilly about his new book *Confronting the Presidents*, where Bill evaluates the successes and failures of U.S. presidents from Polk to Biden. Their conversation offers fresh insights into presidential history, current political challenges, and what past leadership can teach us about today's political climate.

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I'm really interested in the history of the presidents of the United States because these are the guys that have basically not only shaped the country but to some extent have shaped the world I say these are the guys because it's been all men. You know there's a woman running for

0:25.4

president Kamala Harris. In fact I will have a upcoming prediction podcast about

0:30.8

who I think will win. A few weeks ago I had on David Rubinstein to discuss his book on presidential history.

0:36.6

But today we have Bill O'Reilly with his new book,

0:40.9

Confronting the President president's no spin assessments from

0:44.2

Washington Biden I would say Bill O'Reilly is one of the world's experts on

0:49.2

presidential history I mean he's interviewed a bunch of presidents. He's written, you know, in addition to this book confronting the presidents, he's written books like

0:58.1

Killing Reagan, Killing Kennedy, The United States of Trump. He's written all these books on killing Lincoln was his most popular book.

1:06.0

He's written all these books about the presidents.

1:10.0

This book, his latest book confronting the presidents,

1:13.0

really is an in your face like what was good and what was bad about each of these presidents.

1:19.0

I learned so much stuff, a lot of scandalous stuff actually about well-known private, you know, like the

1:25.6

private lives of these presidents, these presidents that we were veer.

1:29.2

And it's just fascinating.

1:31.6

Also fascinating to talk to Bill Bill not only about the book and who is who the most underrated presidents are and all that kind of stuff, but also what's going on with the current election and what does he think of the candidates and the

1:44.7

economy and inflation. So here's Bill O'Reilly on confronting the

1:50.3

presidents but also what's going on right now.

1:55.0

This isn't your average business podcast and he's not your average host.

2:02.0

This is the James Altager show. So in all this research and you uncover all these things I didn't know about any of these

2:19.4

presidents but in all this research who would you say your opinion changed the most about in terms of their quality of their presidency?

2:27.0

Well, a guy like James K Polk, nobody knows who he is. You go out on the street, you go, hey, how about that James K Polk nobody knows who he is you go out on the street go hey how about that James K Polk they go all he's a rapper right? Yeah, oh, nobody knows anything about him

2:39.4

But he was in the top ten of presidents because he was able to expand America from

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