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This week on q a, our guest is margaret macmillan, author of nixon and mao the week that chnaged the world. Cspan margaret macmillan, but if you think a book about nixon and mao would so . Guest my father was a good subject and i love the good storiestoriesof history and thou have two extraordinary personality is with great falls and talent and it was an interesting moment that ended the period but in the United States and china and started Something Else so my next book i wanted to do something...

I stand before you i stand before you without a single pledge or promise or understanding of any kind except for the advancement of your cause and the preservation of american democracy. [applause] as your nominee, i will have an aggressive fighting campaign. [applause] the republicans l willkie ran for president in 1940. These are some damages some images of him on the campaign trail. We are here with david willkie. I want you to introduce the cabinet audiences of some of the fervor. Your grand...

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Gentlemen, the first is paul sparrow who is director of the franklin de roosevelt president ial museum and library in new york, following a career as a documentary filmmaker and a Senior Executive at the museum. Paul has been directing the Roosevelt Library museum since 2015. He will be talking obviously about fdr and the Manhattan Project. Our second guest is Clifton Truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. He is also a truman scholar. He has spent quite a bit of time...

He was deployed to vietnam in april of 1969 and on his second Southeast Asia tour, he participated in the saigon evacuation, flying the last 11 marines off the roof of the American Embassy on the morning of april 30, 1975, which, this evening, we will hear more about. He is a graduate of the Army War College in carlisle, pennsylvania. And the National War College in washington, d. C. He later served as the marine corps chair on the faculty of the Naval War College Teaching National military stra...

On august 6 and Army Air Force b29 dropped atomic bomb number two on hiroshima, japans seventh largest city. [explosion] a stunned universe swiftly learned that man had a new weapon of shocking destructiveness. A weapon bordering on the absolute. Died instantly. 70,000 persons were killed or listed as missing. 140,000 persons were injured. 43,000 were badly hurt. The city was unbelievably crushed. Of 90,000 buildings, over 60,000 were demolished. The remains were described as vapor and ashes. Ma...

Conference and theyre always occasions for looking back and drawing attention and theres another reason to look back at potsdam as we are reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of international thinking and International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. So im especially glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person again in kansas city. I wish that w...

Have them here virtually from his home and we are going to talk about his new book about the 1948 election. Were going back 72 years another Election Year. You will be amazed at how it sounds the same in some ways but in some ways very different. The difference is the politicians were all younger than they are today so thats one big difference but a. J. Take it away and tell us about the overview of the book and which is a very good. By the way. Thank you. I like to say couple things first rate ...

He received his undergraduate and masters degrees in history. I got to know david when he was running on Hillary Clintons campaign. He is a distinguished fellow, National Security and board of law school. Scholar of the university of texas. He spent many hours together in the situation room and previously served president home and security and counterterrorism. Middle Eastern Affairs and counterterrorism, john received several awards for his contributions including National Security panel, Publi...

Gay exhibit, which was going to be held at the smithsonian. 1995, so this was the 50th anniversary. In the midst of this, i decided with one of my students, whose mother survived the atomic bombing in hiroshima, we decided we would do Something Special to commemorate the 50th anniversary. We brought students to kyoto and hiroshima. This, theere planning smithsonian exhibit got canceled. Bring some we would artifacts to American University and it do an exhibit here on the 50th anniversary. That w...