Expectations For the Office of the Presidency

The Brian Lehrer Show | Sep 11, 2017

Jeremi Suri, professor of history at the University of Texas and author of The Impossible Presidency: The Rise and Fall of America's Highest Office (Basic Books, 2017), talks about how the rising importance of the office of the presidency leads to unreasonable expectations by the public and inevitable disappointment.

"Every gen. reinvents the office of the president...Until we focus on broader natl interests, the office is gonna continue 2 be in decline"
— Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) September 11, 2017

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