Every U.S. president has had a time when his leadership — his ability to comfort and uplift the nation, to guide the country through peril, and respond appropriately to crisis — has been tested. Some have risen to the occasion and others have failed. If the coronavirus pandemic is that moment for President Trump, how does he compare to his forebears? To discuss, Jim Braude was joined by David Gergen of the Harvard Kennedy School, a former adviser to Presidents Clinton, Reagan, Nixon, and Ford, and Dr. Katherine Gergen Barnett, vice chair of primary care innovation and transformation and the program director of the department of family medicine at Boston Medical Center.
