RUSH: We had Bret Baier, I think a couple days before the inauguration, so the 18th, I think, Bret Baier was here, Fox News, Special Report. Bret Baier. He’s written a book that I think it debuted at number two on the New York Times, Three Days in January. It’s about the transition from Eisenhower to JFK, and a lot of history, a lot of biographical information about the Eisenhower presidency.
I asked Bret about it and he was surprised at some of the similarities he found when he researched this between Eisenhower and Trump. I’ve had a chance to dig into this, and presidential history and such things as what happens during transitions, things you don’t see, things that TV doesn’t show you, it’s really well done. It took Bret three years to research and write this book, what with everything else that he has on his plate, and it’s a serious, scholarly effort.
For example, on the day of the inauguration, the tradition is that the new president shows up at the White House and goes in with his wife and has coffee or tea with the outgoing president and his wife and secret handshakes and secret letters and secret compartments and, you know, where the end of-the-world button really is, all that stuff is explained, the old president to the new. And they’re in there for 10 or 15, 20 minutes, and then they’re off to the inauguration.
Well, the car carrying Eisenhower and Mamie did indeed arrive at the White House, and Eisenhower didn’t get out. He never went in to have coffee or tea or learn where the secret end-of-the-world button is or any of these conspiracy handshake compartments are. He never went in there to learn any of this stuff. He waited for Eisenhower to come out and they drove over there. And they didn’t speak.
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