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Seventy Years on the Throne: Robert Hardman Explains Queen Elizabeth II’s Statecraft

The Secrets of Statecraft

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She's Been Very Influential, Hasn't She?

She has met 14 us. Presidents, which, when i spoke to george w bush, he couldn't really fanybody anywhere ever, who's not just shaken hands with, but actually met, known 14 presidents. And she started with president trueman on her first trip to the us. In 19 51. Met every president since then, with the exception of lindon by johnson. But with the addition of president hoover, whom she actually met, hed retired by te she met him on her 19 50, even state visit to the usa. So that in itself, that's that' of level of experience t no one else can match.

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