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Essay / Presidents' Club by Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy
“Presidents' Club” is not written in an orderly manner. The reason "Presidents' Club" is written like this is because authors Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy only write about recent presidencies that they have witnessed throughout their lives. By witnessing these presidencies, the authors saw presidents, from Truman to Obama, form lifelong relationships. Life relationships take decades to form. To write this book, memoirs and presidential correspondence were used much more than real interviews. So the book started with Truman and how he went from being Roosevelt's vice president to forming the presidents club with former president Hoover. Truman was able to get advice from Hoover, both legally and politically, on establishing better relations abroad. To establish better relations abroad, Truman needed an ambassador, so he chose Hoover. Hoover was considered a bad president during his term, but he redeemed himself as ambassador. One of Hoover's overseas stops mentioned in the book was to Argentina to help feed more than a million Europeans. After Hoover helped Truman during his term as president, they formed the "Presidents Club" because they were two living former presidents and so they set out to share their experience and knowledge with other presidents when they take up their duties. Hoover began to accept the new presidents who followed them, such as Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy. Dwight Eisenhower did well during his term as president because he took advantage of the “Presidents Club.” But John F. Kennedy is another story. Gibbs and Duffy gave Kennedy a chapter all to himself. He was called "He had no idea of the complexity of the job", and that was also the word...... middle of paper... the mess the country was already in and he knew that 'initially, the country as a whole is more important than him. The mess that took place during his tenure was the Vietnam War. Wars are a very serious problem, so it is not enough for one person, but for several. Johnson asked Nixon for a helping hand. But it turns out Nixon stabbed Johnson in the back and they no longer get along because of the backstabbing. The bottom line about the “Presidents Club” is that the former presidents do not try to control the new presidents, but rather offer them some advice and some experience so that the new presidents don't have don't feel like you're embarking on work that has no description. The “Presidents Club” was created as a support/transition group for presidents who know what this man is going through with the weight of the world on his shoulders...