US politics documentary heads up

Sunday 9.00 pm BBC4 is showing ‘How to Be a Good President: Time Shift’.  The blurb from their website states:

‘In a whistle-stop tour through the history of the US presidency, journalist and author Jonathan Freedland asks what qualities make a great president and what we can learn from the likes of Theodore Roosevelt, JFK or even Richard Nixon about what it takes to make a mark in the White House.

Freedland is helped by distinguished contributors including James Naughtie, Shirley Williams, Douglas Hurd, Simon Hoggart and Bonnie Greer, who give frank assessments of some of America’s greatest presidents.’

A hat tip to Jack Barnes on this one.

A clip from the BBC of Nixon campaigning in 1972

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