Amanpour and Company

April 3, 2019

Danny Danon, Israeli Ambassador to the UN and Diana Buttu, former legal advisor to the PLO, each discuss the upcoming Israeli elections and ongoing peace process. Jared Cohen joins the program to discuss his book "Accidental Presidents." Dr. Ruth Westheimer escaped the Holocaust and served as a sniper in the Haganah, all before emigrating to the US and becoming a sex therapist.

Jared Cohen on America's "Accidental Presidents"

13m 49s

Jared Cohen is best known as a former advisor to Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton, and as the founder and CEO of Google’s thinktank Jig Saw, but his latest venture has taken some by surprise: a book on American political history. “Accidental Presidents” examines the eight men who have ascended to the highest office in the land without being elected after their predecessors died in office.

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