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How to Be a Good President

Helped by contributors including Shirley Williams, Douglas Hurd and Simon Hoggart, journalist Jonathan Freedland attempts to define the qualities which make a great US president.

In a whistlestop 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.

1 hour

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Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes

  • 00:19

    Bing Crosby

    Straight Down the Middle

  • 00:25

    Circus Roncalli Zirkusgeschichten

    Volker Rosin "In Rocallis Zirkuswelt"

  • 00:29

    Terry Callier

    You're Gonna Miss Your Candyman

  • 00:54

    Arthur Lyman

    Caravan

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Role Contributor
Presenter Jonathan Freedland

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