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Vanderbilt welcomed jon meacham with wide arms and a very warm embrace as a distinguished visiting professor. [applause] and i think john has done well and i hope we can take to visiting off him pretty soon. I would say the Political Science students are thrilled to have such unique opportunity to learn from this accomplish historical scholar and celebrated author. Johns most recent book thomas jefferson, the art of power, rose to the coveted number one spot on the New York Times bestseller list and was selected as one of the best books of the year by the times book review in the washington po...

Theres no question that congress routinely and administrations routinely dont speak the truth to the American Public. Thats not just inaccuracies in terms of the Affordable Health care act would do. It is the absence of speaking the truth about where we are. Where are we quiet we are now at a standard of living the same as what we had any teen 88. We now have, per family, unfunded obligations in. Dad of 1. 1 million per family. That needs to be spoken as we can build a context for the test things that are going to come. The biggest problem i see with congress denial of reality. You can still b...

I unleash the bombing again on july 25th knowing the danger this time. He decides to go ahead with it. Then okay well mark it with orange colored smoke which tells us, okay, dont bomb on this side of the orange colored smoke because thats the u. S. Lines. So the crew men are briefed do not do that. None of them want to bomb their own troops. What do you think happens on july 25th. Heres murphys law. Which way do you think the wind is blowing. Towards the u. S. Lines. So orange smoke is coming back towards the american lines, theres confusion by at least one or two groups and thats all it takes...

Army commander tells waters, this is the first ever meeting of polish and american soldiers on a battlefield. So the two coordinate to snap trap shut for the germans and they will do so, but the germans have continued trying to attack furiously eastward to get out of there. Collectively this part of the battle of normandy is known as the falasie gap. Its roughly around 1944. The german losses have been terrible. 25,000 to 50,000 men captured, 10,000 dead in the pocket alone. Its a concentrated area so youre talking about enormous destruction by allied artillery, allied air, allied ground force...

Kcanadians coming from the othe direction. Eventually bradley will tell them to halt. This is a controversial decision at normandy because its thought that it allows germans to escape who otherwise might not have. Well, regardless of that, you do end up with an encirclement eventually by about august 18th, 1944. Tens of thousands of germans had escaped. Some tafrnks and vehicles had escaped. The two sides do join hands in a town called shamboa. Whats interesting is that its not a link up of americans and british, its americans and polish. The Company Commander is reconning ahead of his unit on...