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Good evening, everyone. Im robert citino, executive director of the institute for the study of war and democracy here at the National World War Ii Museum. Thank you. Thank you to the museum for hiring me. I appreciate that. Every two weeks i appreciate it. Im also the samuel Senior Historian at the museum which is perhaps my proudest boast. Welcome to another installment of our meet the authors heres here at the museum where we bring you the best new world war ii literature and the men and women...

Thank you for hiring me. I appreciate that. Every two weeks. I appreciated pretty. Im also the samuels Senior Historian at the museum which is perhaps my proudest post. Welcome to another installment of our author series will we bring you the best world war ii literature and the men and women who create it. People tonight author, the truly needs no introduction, we carry out that tradition. Any chance are there any veterans in the audience tonight. There we go. [applause]. I knew there were some...

Museum, thank you to the museum for hiring me. I am the Senior Historian at the museum. Welcome to another installment of our meet the author series where we bring you the best world war ii literature and the men and women who write and create it. Before i introduce tonights offer, a man who needs no introduction, let me carry out the tradition of the National World war ii in museum. Are there any world war ii veterans or homefront workers in the audience tonight . There we go. I knew there were...

Welcome you to historic fort stevens and the 55th anniversary of the battle of commemoration. Commemoration. My name is kim elder. I am the Program Manager for the civil war defenses of washington, and that is a long title or what encircles the National Park Service Number which manages 18 of the forts, as well as battleground national cemetery. At this time, we will present the colors. Today, representing the 54th regiment of massachusetts and the united colored troops from connecticut. We are ...

We will look to explore the dynamics. To the also let them contemporary developments to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, the history they contain, parallels to todays events, that is a practice of democracy itself. Established in 1998. We are the only institution of its time doing it, analyzing and transcribing the secret made fromal tapes 1974 to 1973. We do this work at the Miller Center. So much of our work is browserbased. The Digital Edition is ...

R. Ford prize. It was for coverage of the presidency. The first time anybody had captured both awards in a single year. He is a frequent guest lecturer at universities including stanford, harvard, the university of chicago and other institutions abroad. He is the author of three books. We will focus on his third book about Richard Nixon. It is a biography of the 37th president of the United States. It has one best biography of the year, the New York Historical pride in American History. It was a...

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They shorten the war and save lives by preventing conflict. Where would they do this . Where they were needed. Sometimes, it was really close to the front lines, not close enough to suggest their secret. Or it could have been farther away. Elephant,operation they fool the germans that the Second Armored Division was staying when it was actually moving closer to the front lines. So they operated anywhere they were needed. Tell me about some of the pictures and things you have here. Here in the ha...

Sounds of activity to full the germans and they saved the lives. Where would they do this . They did this where they were needed. Sometimes it was close to the front lines but not close enough to recommend their secrets or it couldve been farther away they sometimes with operation elephant, they would for them to the second armored position but they were actually moving closer to the front line. They operated anywhere they were needed. Tell me about some of the pictures you have here. Some of th...