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CNN’s Douglas Brinkley: ‘Nobody’ Wants to See Trump at Bush 41 Funeral
Breitbart ^ | 4 Dec 2018 | Tony Lee

Posted on 12/04/2018 1:57:34 PM PST by detective

CNN’s presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said on Monday evening that nobody attending President George H.W. Bush’s funeral on Wednesday wants to see President Donald Trump.

“Well, I think George Herbert Walker Bush was right. He planned his funeral memorial service right to have President Trump attend,” Brinkley told host Don Lemon. “But let’s be honest. There’s nobody that wants to see President Trump at this memorial service that is going to be there.”

Trump will not speak at the funeral but will reportedly meet privately with the family.

Brinkley mentioned that Trump has been “no friend” of the Bush family since the 1980s.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: brinkley; bush; bush41; clintonnonnews; cnn; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; donlemon; douglasbrinkley; georgehwbush; ghwbushfuneral; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; trump
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To: LS

“Brinkley’s book on Katrina wasn’t bad.”


It was excellent.

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81 posted on 12/04/2018 5:13:07 PM PST by Mears
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To: nicollo; LS
Top five worst modern popular historians: ... 3. Doris Kearns Goodwin

I am listening to The Bully Pulpit on audiobook now. What do you think of it?

Runners up include ... Will Durant, ...

"Popular" is the key word there. Durant is for people who want an introduction to history. Then they can read more to get perspective -- or never read anything else ever again. His books are very dated now, and there are plenty of better alternatives, but it wasn't an unworthy project when he started it. I see him as similar to Mortimer Adler, ridiculous in some ways, but not without some redeeming qualities.

82 posted on 12/04/2018 5:19:41 PM PST by x
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To: nicollo

You forgot a HUGE one and should replace Beschloss with:

Eric Foner

The Red Star Rising.


83 posted on 12/04/2018 5:20:44 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: x

I haven’t read that one. For the last 2 years, if it’s not Ronald Reagan, I probably haven’t read it, with the exception of Chandler’s “Campaigns of Napoleon.”


84 posted on 12/04/2018 5:21:25 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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To: LS

Good list. Add one: William Manchester.


85 posted on 12/04/2018 5:29:56 PM PST by Afterguard (Deplorable me!)
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To: detective

To Cacophonous Nauseating Nincompoops:

How low can you go?

86 posted on 12/04/2018 5:58:06 PM PST by Songcraft
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To: LS
Eric Foner

Oh, God, thanks for reminding... He's next to Zinn.
87 posted on 12/04/2018 7:38:42 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: LS
Brands isn’t terrible. As left-leaners go, he’s by far the best of the bunch

His work on TR and the progressives is thoughtless, uncritical, and hagiographic. Haven't read his book on Katrina, but his progressive political history is hopelessly leftist.
88 posted on 12/04/2018 7:42:11 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: x

I can’t stomach Goodwin ever since I was assigned “Rivals” in a US History Masters course. My response paper was that the prof didn’t want to read it himself and just threw it at us. Total waste of time.

I learned nothing from Bully Pulpit, which pissed me off because there is yet interesting territory there that she and her ghost writers ignored. Waste of time.

As for Durant, I take that one back — careless memory. I love Story of Civilization and other big picture histories he and Ariel wrote.

I was thinking of Charles Beard — oops! — and his insipid “Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States.”


89 posted on 12/04/2018 7:53:13 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: nicollo; x

Scratch that on Durant, sorry. Beard’s “Economic Interpretation” is my issue, although, again, I really like his w/ Mary Beard, “The Rise of American Civilization,” a beautiful work.


90 posted on 12/04/2018 8:07:31 PM PST by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: detective

Douglas Brinkley’s a nose in the air jerk. It’s safe to assume Mr. brinkley looks down on the 65 million people who voted for President Trump too.

Oh - and Cronkite was only ‘loved’ because the press was ‘gatekeeper’ and controlled the narrative...


91 posted on 12/04/2018 8:25:15 PM PST by GOPJ (The enemy of the United States pays for drum circles at 'protests'. Watch for them.)
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To: detective

Wonder if this idiot realizes he is slamming the mourning Bush family and not Trump with his crap....


92 posted on 12/05/2018 2:43:35 AM PST by trebb (Those who don't donate anything tend to be empty gasbags...no-value-added types)
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To: detective

“Lets be honest”?

Why start now?


93 posted on 12/05/2018 6:39:17 AM PST by MrRelevant
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To: detective
CNN’s presidential historian Douglas Brinkley

He's a partisan a*shat, not a historian, sheesh.

94 posted on 12/05/2018 6:42:53 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: detective

Prior to his passing, I believe that the deceased specifically asked that President Trump be in attendance.


95 posted on 12/05/2018 8:09:46 AM PST by T. Rustin Noone (the angels wanna wear my red shoes......)
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To: nicollo

“Top five worst modern popular historians:

5. Michael Beschloss
4. H.W. Brands
3. Doris Kearns Goodwin
2. Douglas Brinkley
1. Howard Zinn”

You have barely scratched the surface.

David Maraniss for his fraudulent biographies of both Clinton and Obama is up there.

And look at these so called historians.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/barack-obama-ranked-12th-best-144659600.html


96 posted on 12/05/2018 10:55:51 AM PST by detective
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To: nicollo

Brands didn’t do a book on Katrina. Brinkley did.


97 posted on 12/05/2018 12:28:47 PM PST by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually" (Hendrix))
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