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The Presidents Team was born at Eisenhower's inauguration when Harry Truman and Herbert Hoover first conceived the theory. Over the years that implemented - also to this day - the presidents relied on, misinterpreted, sabotaged, and formed alliances with one another that changed history. The world's most exclusive fraternity is an elaborate place: its customers are bound permanently because they sat in the Oval Office and know its secrets, yet they are really immortal rivals for history's favor. Some presidents needed their predecessors to keep their secrets; others needed those to fade away. Most just needed help getting the work done. Truman enlisted Hoover to help him save Europe; Kennedy turned to Ike on Cuba; Nixon desired Johnson's advice on getting reelected, but tried out to blackmail him; Ford and Carter couldn't stand the other person until they saw what they had in common; Reagan and Clinton relied on Nixon as an off-the-books emissary to Russia; Bush put Clinton and his dad to work and they became like dad and son; and Obama and Clinton became calm rivals for the same crown. Journalists and presidential historians Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy unravel the trick compacts, the distributed marks, and the private cease-fires from Hoover to Obama. The Presidents Team will change the way we think about the presidency, for the membership itself can be an tool of presidential vitality.
