museum is america s museum for that war dedicated designated by congress. we began with the idea 25 years davis gaveess us a new name and a new mandate. we are standing in the bowling center, which we opened four years ago as part of the expansion of our six acre campus here in new orleans. these museum is one of the great museums of the world now. trip advisor ratings have is as one of the most popular museums in america, number three last year. in terms of history museums, we are number one. mission is to understand the epic nature of world war ii and what was at stake for our country, for our freedoms, for our democracy. it took everything we had, a fight to the finish, for civilization itself. it took all of our material resources, human resources, economic resources, and spiritual resources to win the fight against tyranny, against fascism.on we did not want the war. we were isolationists heard we were not prepared for the war. we got in it, and after three a half
he is a historian with the central intelligence agency. he joined the u.s. government in 1986 as a staff historian at the army center of military history, where he served for 14 years before he joined the cia. during his time with the agency he also served in rotational assignments as deputy and chief historian at the national reconnaissance office and at the office of director of national intelligence. dr. laurie has taught at the american university and university of maryland at baltimore county. he specializes at the history of intelligence. he is the author of 40 articles on both military and intelligence history from the 19th century to the present. please join me give you a warm welcome to dr. clayton laurie. [applause] dr. laurie: i would like to thank you all for coming here tonight and i would like to thank the smithsonian associates. can you hear me in the back there? i wanted to point out as part of the introduction i am born and raised in iowa, so i come from a
getting seasick. you have to have your troops in fighting form, but eisenhower went ahead and gave the go signal. on junesion went forth 6, 1944. this speaks a lot about his character, eisenhower wrote out a note the night before in which he said the invasion failed and he alone was responsible for this failure, in case things went wrong. fortunately, he succeeded. host: the germans knew there would be some sort of invasion. the question was where and when and from what locations in great britain. fascinating story on how the allies could keep this in the german military. yes, it was a top-secret plan, but with something of this scale, you will have a hard time to enable to keep things secret. the fact that we were able to keep the germans guessing on when it was going to come was a great success on our part. the germans knew we were going to come at some point, but they did not know we went and where. it was a great success for the allies that we were able to go into normand
great success on our part. the germans knew we were going to come at some point, but they did not know we went and where. it was a great success for the allies that we were able to go into normandy. the germans that we were going to go someplace else. we succeeded partly because of our secrecy policies. host: we are getting comments on twitter at c-span history and facebook as a continue our coverage, commemorating the end of world war ii, 70 years ago in 1945. keith huxon is joining us. on the question of u.s. preparedness, do you have a comment on the u.s. civilian conservation corps in helping prepare reserve officers and civilian and will ease for wartime service between 1933 and 1942? keith: i don t have much of a comment on the civilian court in particular, but i will say that civilians were not deeply involved in the war effort. the truth of the matter is is that world war ii was a total effort and there were a lot of different jobs. it was not just our 60 million in u
scale, you will have a hard time to enable to keep things secret. the fact that we were able to keep the germans guessing on when it was going to come was a great success on our part. the germans knew we were going to come at some point, but they did not know we went and where. it was a great success for the allies that we were able to go into normandy. the germans that we were going to go someplace else. we succeeded partly because of our secrecy policies. host: we are getting comments on twitter at c-span history and facebook as a continue our coverage, commemorating the end of world war ii, 70 years ago in 1945. keith huxon is joining us. on the question of u.s. preparedness, do you have a comment on the u.s. civilian conservation corps in helping prepare reserve officers and civilian and will ease for wartime service between 1933 and 1942? keith: i don t have much of a comment on the civilian court in particular, but i will say that civilians were not deeply involved in t
the way the biota here is changing. so those lessons from the past are important. the dark universe a celebration of our ignorance. think about it. usually when grow an exhibit here wiese we know. and maybe there s a little bit of here s the frontier. we can measure the existence of dark matter in the universe, it s 85% of all the gravity we see. we don t know what s causing it. we measure that the universe is accelerating against the collective wishes of gravity of all the galaxies. we don t know what s causing that. and they re both dark to us. rose: we conclude with robert ed sell. his book is called the monuments men: allied heroes, nazi thieves and the greatest treasure hunt in history. it s also a major motion picture directed by george clooney and starring george clooney, matt damon, bill murray and others. no matter how real book does, there s nothing that can reach a worldwide global aufd audience than a feature film. there s such an epic story about world wa
the way the biota here is changing. so those lessons from the past are important. the dark universe a celebration of our ignorance. think about it. usually when grow an exhibit here wiese we know. and maybe there s a little bit of here s the frontier. we can measure the existence of dark matter in the universe, it s 85% of all the gravity we see. we don t know what s causing it. we measure that the universe is accelerating against the collective wishes of gravity of all the galaxies. we don t know what s causing that. and they re both dark to us. rose: we conclude with robert ed sell. his book is called the monuments men: allied heroes, nazi thieves and the greatest treasure hunt in history. it s also a major motion picture directed by george clooney and starring george clooney, matt damon, bill murray and others. no matter how real book does, there s nothing that can reach a worldwide global aufd audience than a feature film. there s such an epic story about world wa
let s get the show on, the road here this morning. you already all right. let s here is the 30 that our man we ve gone covid. we postpone for a hurricane and boy, you re all still here. i think maybe were just you re like the trekkies we going to call you the benders and what are we going to do? i m nick mueller, president ceo emeritus of the national world war two museum. and i just want welcome everybody here for this anniversary symposia and reunion and what a better venue to than where we are today the united states freedom the boeing center. a lot of your long time friends of the museum been here numerous times and have attended other conferences and travel programs been with us on the easy company from england, the eagle s nest, some of the future guests who also participated on those programs. but we also see a lot of new faces and welcome to all of you and you re the first time here. it won t be the last time, but you all testimony and a test admit to the legacy of th
let s get the show on, the road here this morning. you already all right. let s here is the 30 that our man we ve gone covid. we postpone for a hurricane and boy, you re all still here. i think maybe were just you re like the trekkies we going to call you the benders and what are we going to do? i m nick mueller, president ceo emeritus of the national world war two museum. and i just want welcome everybody here for this anniversary symposia and reunion and what a better venue to than where we are today the united states freedom the boeing center. a lot of your long time friends of the museum been here numerous times and have attended other conferences and travel programs been with us on the easy company from england, the eagle s nest, some of the future guests who also participated on those programs. but we also see a lot of new faces and welcome to all of you and you re the first time here. it won t be the last time, but you all testimony and a test admit to the legacy of th
let s get the show on, the road here this morning. you already all right. let s here is the 30 that our man we ve gone covid. we postpone for a hurricane and boy, you re all still here. i think maybe were just you re like the trekkies we going to call you the benders and what are we going to do? i m nick mueller, president ceo emeritus of the national world war two museum. and i just want welcome everybody here for this anniversary symposia and reunion and what a better venue to than where we are today the united states freedom the boeing center. a lot of your long time friends of the museum been here numerous times and have attended other conferences and travel programs been with us on the easy company from england, the eagle s nest, some of the future guests who also participated on those programs. but we also see a lot of new faces and welcome to all of you and you re the first time here. it won t be the last time, but you all testimony and a test admit to the legacy of th