BGuthrie Photos: Natl Archives -- Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy ("The President's Club")

Natl Archives -- Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy ("The President's Club"):

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Description of Pictures: The President’s Club: Inside the World’s Most Exclusive Fraternity
Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover established the Presidents Club at Eisenhower’s inauguration. Time magazine editors Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy discuss the secret history of the private relationships among the last 13 presidents. A book signing will follow the program.
Welcoming remarks were provided by Douglas Swanson, Visitor Services Manager, National Archives Experience.

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1. PCLUB1_120427_001.JPG: Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy
2. PCLUB1_120427_021.JPG: ???
3. PCLUB1_120427_024.JPG: Doug Swanson
4. PCLUB1_120427_093.JPG: "When your ambition is slaked, it becomes more important to see something good happen for your country than to just keep winning arguments. At some point, you're just glad when the sun comes up in the morning, you get up and you want something good to happen. I don't think it's because we all become saintly." -- Bill Clinton
5. PCLUB1_120427_102.JPG: Nancy Gibbs
6. PCLUB1_120427_118.JPG: Power "Being a former president is an asset. But it's the current president's asset to deploy." -- Clinton advisor John Podesta
7. PCLUB1_120427_123.JPG: "You have the right to call for any service in aid of the country." -- Herbert Hoover
8. PCLUB1_120427_143.JPG: Michael Duffy
9. PCLUB1_120427_154.JPG: "I think we ought to organize a former President's club," Hoover suggested. "Fine," Truman replied. "You be the President of the club. And I will be the Secretary."
10. PCLUB1_120427_172.JPG: "President Eisenhower said to me when I visited him at Walter Reed Hospital after the election of 1968, 'I am yours to command.' I now say the same to you." -- Richard Nixon
11. PCLUB1_120427_173.JPG: "When my president summons me, then I come and I would play golf in a driving snowstorm." -- Bill Clinton
12. PCLUB1_120427_198.JPG: Consolidation "There is no experience you can get that can possibly prepare you adequately for the Presidency." -- John F. Kennedy
13. PCLUB1_120427_201.JPG: "I need you more than ever now." -- Lyndon Johnson
14. PCLUB1_120427_230.JPG: "Why don't we make it just Dick, Jimmy and Jerry." -- Gerald Ford
15. PCLUB1_120427_284.JPG: "Just today I had a problem and I said to the person working with me, 'I wish I could pick up the phone and call Richard Nixon and ask him what he thinks we ought to do about this.' " -- Bill Clinton
16. PCLUB1_120427_328.JPG: "I think people would be surprised to learn that this relationship is based on love. It's not as complex as some would like it to be. I admired him. And he never disappointed me. He was always a great father. He was always a man who gave unconditional love." -- George W. Bush
17. PCLUB1_120427_347.JPG: Rivalry "No one who has been in the Presidency, with the capacity and power to affect the course of events, can ever be satisfied with not being there." -- Richard Nixon
18. PCLUB1_120427_353.JPG: "I knew him. I trusted him. I thought he might make a good president. But that was a mistake. In this campaign he has betrayed almost everything I thought he stood for." -- Harry Truman
19. PCLUB1_120427_405.JPG: "This is Treason... They're contacting a foreign power in the middle of a war." -- Lyndon Johnson
20. PCLUB2_120427_001.JPG: "I feel that my role as a former President is probably superior to that of other presidents." -- Jimmy Carter
21. PCLUB2_120427_064.JPG: "I'm sending Carter. You think it will be OK, don't you?" -- Bill Clinton
22. PCLUB2_120427_094.JPG: Protecting the Office "There is only one thing a good American can do, and that is support the president." -- Dwight Eisenhower
23. PCLUB2_120427_105.JPG: "These are the men to whom we must look for help and counsel. That is why we must not shelve or thrust into obscurity men with such unique experience. And least of all, our former Presidents." -- Harry Truman
24. PCLUB2_120427_141.JPG: "I think we are in enough trouble in the world today," Hoover told Nixon. "Some indications of national unity are not only desirable but essential." -- Herbert Hoover
25. PCLUB2_120427_167.JPG: "As President, my primary concern must always be the greatest good of all the people of the United States whose servant I am. As a man, my first consideration is to be true to my own convictions and my own conscience." -- Gerald Ford
26. PCLUB2_120427_224.JPG: "Is President Reagan could be an actor and become president, maybe I could become an actor. I've got a good pension. I can work for cheap." -- Bill Clinton
27. PCLUB2_120427_287.JPG: "We want you to succeed. All of us who have served in this office understand that the office transcends the individual." -- George W. Bush
28. PCLUB2_120427_345.JPG: David Price, ???
29. PCLUB2_120427_543.JPG: (Seated) Michael Duffy, Nancy Gibbs (Standing at the table) David Price, Judy Price
30. PCLUB2_120427_557.JPG: Doug Swanson, Nancy Gibbs, Michael Duffy
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