The “Presidents Club” is not neatly written. The reason the “Presidents Club” is written in this w is because authors Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy only write about recent presidencies they have witnessed in their lifetimes. Witnessing these presidencies, the authors have observed presidents from Truman to Obama forge lasting relationships. Life relationships take decades to form. To write this book, presidential memoirs and correspondence were used rather than actual 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 for both councils and politicians to build better relations abroad. To build better relations abroad Truman needed an ambassador, so he chose Hoover. Hoover was considered a bad president during his term, but redeemed himself as ambassador. One of Hoover's foreign stops mentioned in the book was to Argentina to help feed over 1 million Europeans. After Hoover aided Truman during his term as president, they formed the "Presidents' Club" because they were two living former presidents and therefore made it a point to share their experience and knowledge with other presidents when they took office. Hoover began to accept new presidents who came after 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 dedicated a chapter all to themselves to Kennedy. It was said: "He had no idea of the complexity of the job", these were also the words... middle of paper... in the mess the country was already in and initially I knew that the country as a whole is more important than him . The chaos that was occurring during his tenure was the Vietnam War. Wars are a really big problem, so it doesn't just take one person to deal with them, but many. Johnson reached out to Nixon for help. But it turns out that Nixon stabbed Johnson in the back and now they no longer get along because of the backstabbing. The bottom line regarding the "Presidents Club" is that the former presidents are not trying to control the new presidents, but instead offer to give some advice and some experience so that the new presidents don't feel like they are entering a work that has no description. The “Presidents Club” was formed as a support/transition group for presidents who know what that guy with the weight of the world on his shoulders is going through.
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