McAPUSH: Allison Street - The President Calling

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Sunday, August 11, 2013

Allison Street - The President Calling

I listened to the podcast on the different presidents being taped (on phone calls, etc) during their time in the white house. It was very interesting to experience a more personal side to the presidents, hearing how they act and respond regularly, rather than in rehearsed speeches. Kennedy's taped calls with the governor, I could personally feel the frustration when he wouldn't cooperate with President Kennedy's aims to register Meredith. After Kennedy's assassination, it was intriguing to become fimiliar with Lyndon B. Johnson, a president whom I was not previously aware of. I like listening to this type of source, and wouldn't mind doing it again, because it isn't as mundane, and is more attention-capturing, then merely reading from a textbook.