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for another day. so thank you very, very much for coming. my name is marie arana, i am a writer-at-large for "the washington post". i was the books editor for many, many years, and i am now a very happy member of the board of directors of this festival. and "the washington post" is very, very proud to be a charter sponsor of the festival for so many years. .. >> almost two decades as a washington journalist, doug waller has covered the pentagon, congress, state department, the white ho...

participant in the bonus army. >> would you say a few words about the impact, influence, real and perceived of communists on the bonus army? >> oh, ok. what happened was this, this continued into the 1950s. that there were communists that the bonus army communists led. the chief of police said that the most he ever saw at any one time was a group of about 110. on the other hand, there were about 45,000 veterans who came and went in washington during that summer. those are the numbers. ...

recovered from the defeat in the casrean pass? >> i feel like im sitting for my orals in front of professor weinberg. [laughter] well, it was fought in february of 1943. the u.s. army very green then with green commanders, it landed in north africa with the british on november 8, 1942, and had advanced eastward across the northern coast of north africa, northwest africa. and on february 14, 1943, the germans under two very competent commanders, one named rommel youve probably heard of,...