Decisions on april 2, 1917, an anxious president Woodrow Wilson voices his fore bodying, and theyll forget there was such a thing as tolerance. To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless. Conformity would be the only virtue. Days later, with the president leading as he must, america is at war. All doubts are now submerged. All separate voices drowned out by the great chorus of the war effort. Do your bit for the boys over there the spirit of 17 on the American Home front, a nation rallying to the war. Behind them, keeping the spirit moved is the machinery of government. A new agency set up by the president under a journalist named george creole with his committee on Public Information which will grow from a handful to 150,000, creole tackles the war effort as a plain publicity proposition. The worlds greatest adventure in advertising. It will be an allstar production off stage and on. The march king, drumming up sales of liberty bonds with the star of the metropolitan opera, anna case a
Bomb shelters were being built around the country. I made the joke all the time that the actual material that school desks were made of could actually stop a nuclear holocaust. [laughter] rob not true, but we used to joke about it. What happened was the cold war ended. Had,ber of administrations for a short period of time become a window where we all felt kind of ok, where the world is moving in the direction weve all wanted it to move, and a democratic direction where democracy was now starting to take hold, even in the former soviet union. It was very shortlived. We saw a man named Vladimir Putin, who was a former kgb void,al, fill a essentially taking over in a lot of chaos and an inability to make that transition to a democracy. He moved in, took advantage of the chaos, and started an authoritarian state, which meant ,imiting the freedom of speech clamping down on dissidents, even murder. We, and the cold war, had basically got to a point where the Nuclear Arms Race had buried them
Bomb shelters were being built around the country. I made the joke all the time that the actual material that school desks were made of could actually stop a nuclear holocaust. [laughter] rob not true, but we used to joke about it. What happened was the cold war ended. Had,ber of administrations for a short period of time become a window where we all felt kind of ok, where the world is moving in the direction weve all wanted it to move, and a democratic direction where democracy was now starting to take hold, even in the former soviet union. It was very shortlived. We saw a man named Vladimir Putin, who was a former kgb void,al, fill a essentially taking over in a lot of chaos and an inability to make that transition to a democracy. He moved in, took advantage of the chaos, and started an authoritarian state, which meant ,imiting the freedom of speech clamping down on dissidents, even murder. We, and the cold war, had basically got to a point where the Nuclear Arms Race had buried them
Jack davis. And mr. Davis is from independence, missouri. Has a bachelor, masters degree from sonoma state university. And many of you may know him as longtime editor of civil war times illustrated back in, i guess, the 1970s and 1980s when it was really the only popular civil war magazine. Its heyday. The best years that it was in existence. It still is, obviously. But hes the author, editor of 60 books relating to primarily to civil war, but also 19th century history, southern u. S. History. Think about that for a minute. 60 books. Among those, just a few, his i think first book was a history of the new market campaign, which i still think is a model small battle history, forty years after it was written. I think its one of the best small battle histories that have ever been written on the civil war battle. Biography of john c. Breckenridge. General history of the confederate war. Book on the end of the war in florida and other locations, cornered with him about the escape of souther
Jack davis. And mr. Davis is from independence, missouri. Has a bachelor, masters degree from sonoma state university. And many of you may know him as longtime editor of civil war times illustrated back in, i guess, the 1970s and 1980s when it was really the only popular civil war magazine. Its heyday. The best years that it was in existence. It still is, obviously. But hes the author, editor of 60 books relating to primarily to civil war, but also 19th century history, southern u. S. History. Think about that for a minute. 60 books. Among those, just a few, his i think first book was a history of the new market campaign, which i still think is a model small battle history, forty years after it was written. I think its one of the best small battle histories that have ever been written on the civil war battle. Biography of john c. Breckenridge. General history of the confederate war. Book on the end of the war in florida and other locations, cornered with him about the escape of souther