From Truman to Trump: how Queen Elizabeth II handled 13 US presidents
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From Truman to Trump: how Queen Elizabeth II handled 13 US presidents

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Over her 70 year reign, Queen Elizabeth II encountered 13 US presidents - from Harry S Truman to Donald J Trump. The journalist Susan Page details how the Queen wielded her subtle influence over the world's most powerful men. Guest: Susan Page, Washington bureau chief for USA Today, author of 'The Queen and Her Presidents'Producer: Ali Benton

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Stay close to the Americans was Winston Churchill's advice to young Queen Elizabeth and she did all her reign. Time and again she packed to diamonds and flew to the United States to be received by America's leaders who turned on the works for her. Those meetings of monarch and presidents were television fodder for the world. What came of the Queen's efforts

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is the subject of a new book by Susan Page, who's the Washington bureau chief of USA Today. The book's called The Queen and Her Presidents, and it makes a mighty claim that the Queen's relationship with America's leaders changed the world. Susan Page, welcome to Late Night Live.

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David, it's a pleasure to be with you. Susan, in theory, a republic and the leaders of a republic should be impervious to the charms of a monarch. But it doesn't turn out that way, does it? Why? No, not at all. I mean, Queen Elizabeth didn't have hard power. She couldn't negotiate a

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