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If there are any veterans or activeduty service men please rise so we can acknowledge your service, thank you. [applause] today is a day that marked the transition of america from an isolationist nation to a global superpower. There are few days like september 7th because of what it meant for the world we live in today. We are fortunate to be able to honor a wonderful program, a new book that has just come out. How many, if you remember, look at that, that is great, thank you, your support makes...

That all roads lead to rome. If that is true, the United States army had taken the longest and toughest road. Arriving on the fourth of june, 1944, two years and six months after pearl harbor americas entrance into the war. Two days after general mark pratss fifth army captured the eternal city, dwight d. Eisenhowers envision forces hit the normandie beaches in a massive am amphibious assault. Despite bitter german resistance, we built up an enormous beachhead and finally broke through. Our seve...

Of paris. The battle of the bulbs in december that year into january of 1945, and then, to victory day. Take us back to may 7 and eight of 1945. How did the war end in europe . Guest well, the war ended with the germans they sickly decided germans basically decided that there was no profit in dragging it out with the russians in berlin. The russians murdering civilians , killing german shoulders by the hundreds german soldiers by the hundreds of thousands. The germans decided it was time to make...

A look at the. April 1945 on the order river 60 kilometers northeast of berlin. In what was still the german town of need of votes and a very marked Infantry Battalion Exchange Fire with advancing soviet army unit. Its. The scene is among the last in the war to be filmed by german propaganda units despite its hopeless military position the 3rd reich still hoped images of courageous german troops and fallen Red Army Soldiers could bolster optimism and the nazi mindset surrender was not an option ...

Heros with, our veterans of world war ii. And we thank them for joining us this morning. My name is mike hydeck. Im honored to be here with friends of the world war ii memorial. And the foundation. Im the morning anchor at wusa channel 9 here in washington, d. C. And the goal of this discussion is to hopefully share some of their most personal stories from our greatest generation. The thought being their emotional firstperson accounts can help galvanize the stories of world war ii for you as tea...

American history tv and washington journal or the end of world war ii, the 75th anniversary of the end of world war ii in the european theater, ve day, victory in europe day. We welcome author and historian Rick Atkinson. Uthor and historian Rick Atkinson whose final book published in 2013, the final of three books focusing on the years 1944 and 1945. Started,r conversation just a quick timeline of where things were and how they came from ve day on june 6, 1944 in late august deliberation of par...

When im on. My way that i didnt. Want to put on. Them to record i. Was. The. Final. Word. That. April 1945 on the order river 60. As northeast of berlin. In what was still the german town of need of votes and a very marked Infantry Battalion Exchange Fire with advancing soviet army units. The scene is among the last in the war to be filmed by german propaganda units despite its hopeless military position the 3rd reich still hoped images of courageous german troops and fallen Red Army Soldiers co...

Really excited to dive into is how journalism is dealing with this issue, how journalists are trying to cover a story that is unprecedented. Here is how the conversation will go. The first half of the conversation, our guest and i will just have a conversation between the two of us. Halfway through we will start taking your questions. For those of you who are members of the georgetown community, you will see a q and a button. Halfway through we will start taking them. We will let you know when y...

Covid19 pandemic and Vanderbilt Universitys william shatner, professor of Infectious Diseases in Public Health policy. Join the conversation tonight at 8 00 pm eastern on cspan. I am tony clark, you are here, a special night for us, the book itself is perfect, and what we have a carter president ial library, talks about congress and the president and how they Work Together even when they dont necessarily agree on things. What president carter after congressman brooks and one of the things the pr...

So now, to go back and listen to what has happened to weapons from truman to trump is really remarkable. All from the midwest and college thinking he would be a literature major but watergate changed him to Political Science and then he went on to graduate school at mit and it was International Relations and nuclear strategy. Then he moved to washington with the house of representatives house policy advisor but you know government work, he decided that wasnt for him so then he left and wrote the...