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Five short years after the last shots of world war ii had been fired, the United States army had been reduced to an active force of 600,000. A great number of these were scattered about the world on occupation duty. But the armed forces of the communists, soviet russia and red china, remained on a strong wartime footing and in belligerent posture. Aggression was soon to come. Americans would be fighting against tyranny for the third time in 32 years. Korea, a crowded Little Finger of land, but of key importance to the free world in the far east. What happened here opened the next major chapter...

Stalin declared their participation in the United Nations organization. Rushing germany from the east and the west, they met at the river and joined hands in the celebration of victory. They fought the good fight together, final victory was in sight. Mans hopes of lasting peace were high. But the great architect of victory was not to see the final fight. Franklin roosevelt was dead. He left the United Nations organization, the framework for lasting peace on earth. World war ii to end, and in tokyo bay, general mcarthur spoke for all people. And that god will preserve it always. Meanwhile in sa...

[applause] this occasion [inaudible] a tradition which began with president theodore roosevelt. The great and the new great have addressed this audience, but tonight we welcome a man whom history will record as renowned among World Leaders in the hour of greatest need. [applause] i had in mind the rapid secession communist aggression as millions of people were involved behind the farreaching iron curtain. Ivan mine the stalemate of korea, the rampaging inflation in our homeland which was eating up the savings, and traveling our Free Enterprise economy. Here then is the man trained in war, who ...

By the spring of 1950, only five short years after the last shots of world war ii had been fired, the United States army had been reduced to an active force of 600,000. A great number of these were scattered about the world on occupation duty. But the armed forces of the communists, soviet russia and red china, remained on a strong wartime footing and in belligerent posture. Aggression was soon to come. Americans would be fighting against tyranny for the third time in 32 years. Korea. A crowded Little Finger of land, but a key importance to the free world in the far east. What happened here op...

National security advisers Henry Kissinger. In some ways, nixon is one of the most brilliant people to occupy the white house. He had incredible political gifts. But on the other hand hes one of the worst people to occupy the white house because he had a broad streak of para nnoia and course in the end ruined himself by bringing about his his own catastrophic downfall in the watergate scandal of 1972 to 1974. Were going to look at the good and bad side of the nixon presidency with National Security adviser kissinger. Im going to share the screen so we can look at powerpoint pictures as we go t...