Seward was in his bed and stabbed him repeatedly. stalin is reneging on every promise, churchill is complex, doesn't know where a lot of these countries are on a map, spent several days in the map room getting smart on what is happening with the war. he gets briefed on the manhattan project and has to figure out what to do with this destructive weapons that may or may not work. april 12, 1945, fdr takes his last breath, truman inherits one of the most overwhelming portfolios of crises of any president in history with less preparation than any president in history, the battle of okinawa is literally at its height one of the fiercest military battles of all time.

during truman's 82 days as vice president he meets with fdr twice, doesn't get a single intelligence briefing, doesn't meet a single for leader, is not briefed on the atomic bomb, he is out socializing. of the war ended before his term he could resign and be the first secretary-general of the united nations. He thought he could power through, when the war.

i want to leave you with some incentive to buy the book but i will talk about the first time it happened, share with you the biggest catastrophe of the accidental transitions, share with you who i think was the i am not going to go through every single one of them. most people are familiar with one or 2 presidents to die in office, most are surprised there were eight. we are at a time when everyone is looking at leadership qualities, we have a fascination with politics, fascination with history but our history is anchored in transitions that used to happen every 10 to 20 years. this history in addition to being something i was deeply passionate about resonates with me on so many levels. when my wife was pregnant with our eldest daughter who is 5 years old i needed a nest egg project because i was annoying everybody and i decided to resurrect this childhood interested write a book about the eight times in history a us president died in office and how history was transformed by a heartbeat. Had a growing itch to want to dig into the past.

Accidental Presidents by Jared Cohen