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A short time ago, an american airplane dropped one bomb on hiroshima. It destroyed its usefulness to the enemy. That bomb has more power than 20,000 tons of tnt. With this bomb, we have now added a new and revolutionary increase in destruction. It is an atomic bomb. It is a harnessing of the basic power of the universe. What has been done is the greatest achievement of organized science in history. On august 6th, 1945, the United States detonated the First Nuclear weapon in history over the city...

Right during the 1920s. Republican president s, fairly conservative ones, were elected by landslides, 1920, 1924, and 1928. Congress was in control of the republicans throughout the 1920s. With support of congress, republican president s signed bills which rolled back the income tax increases that were passed during world war i. And the leading social movements on the left, labor unions and the socialist party, both lost members during the war. In fact, the socialist party was never really a fac...

Here. Good morning. Thanks for having me. Senator, were 49 days away from the election. You serve as chairman of the Senate Select committee on intelligence. From that seat, what is the biggest threat to our president ial election in terms of foreign interference . I think first we have to break up foreign interference into two categories. One is meddling in the architecture and mechanics of the election. And then the other is sort of the messaging, sort of the psychological operations and warfa...

Unequal distribution of wealth led to the Great Depression. Her class is about 75 minutes. Weve spent the last few weeks considering how americans adapted to abundance between the 1890s and 1920s. Despite the efforts of producers, advertisers, of retailers and of others, the supply of goods continue to outstrip demand. This wasnt because all everyone, all 106 million americans, had everything they needed. It was because they didnt have adequate purchasing power. They didnt have adequate wages or...

Guest that is exactly where i went. I went to Public School and go to ccd wednesdays and send that got my confirmation in 1955. Spring training. I would go to spring training to write some sort of article and play around and see the players in a relaxed setting. I wrote an article about his quest for the batting title and turned out to be an extraordinary story because i got close to his sister, his mother, his sister and his family, his sister was a big history buff so she came to concorde, my ...

Very often if you look through the past to catch up. The military thinking and strategy. It tends to stay in the past war and Technology Goes ahead and the military thinking has to catch up with technology. What we see in the American Civil War is that most military was along the lines of the American Revolution. In other words, warfare that had happened decades earlier or even napoleon just a few years earlier. That was a hero. A lot of the american generals, their hero was napoleon bonaparte. ...

The receiving line, hope it is not too chaotic, not everybody can make it through because there is a period of time to do this and he will not sign anything. If you will line up over there to the left, you have to line up against the wall to my left, thank you for coming this morning. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] every saturday night we feature author programs from our a...

The occasion for those unbroken. And a tradition which began with theodore roosevelt. The great and the near great addressed this audience. But tonight we welcome the man whom history will record as preeminent among World Leaders in our hour of greatest need. I have in mind the rapid recession of communist aggression as millions of people were enveloped behind a farreaching iron curtain. I have in mind the stalemate of futility inkorea , the land facing inflation in our homeland which was eating...

I tend to move towards more historical types of books on leadership and political books with historical perspective. I dont have any titles in mind right now but id like to read nonfiction and i think thats probably what ill stick with. How do you select the books you read . I do it a couple of ways. Sometimes i get suggestions from friends. I used to be in a book club back in the day and illget there reading selections and pick from that. Then ill just, i read the book review sections of the ne...

Workers, it got a lot of exposure. There was a really great piece on healthcare workers, transporters and environmental services, people who do not like doctors and nurses necessarily, i wonder to what degree these narratives are reaching people who are not already aware. I feel very frustrated about a number of people. It is not that i am a show off or want to be a center of attention, but i dont feel a sense of a platform and sense of people interacting with me right now. And there is a way in...