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Good evening. Good evening. First of all, thank you for coming out in this rainy evening, i know its a bit of a challenge, but it will be well was your time to be here for the discussion, its my pleasure to welcome you to the tonights program, in tide, historically speaking, will return fighting, and the shipping of modern black identity, public by, its a collection of us is, men and women, who serve the country on the battlefield, as well as on the home front. Their struggles for civil rights one of the main things we will learn this evening is that while the civil rights movement, was that i...

Cochair of our organization, Condoleezza Rice. [applause]er you will be hearing from secretary rice in half an hour she is one of the conversationalists. The other chair could not be here but he is very much a part of this effort perk i want to pay tribute to former secretary of defense mr. Bill and janet cohen. Welcome secretary. [applause] and i also want to paid tribute who embodies bipartisanship every effort across partisan lines is a National Security advisor as well. My close friend as one of the people doing the interviews the subject is china. All of us agree our relationship is the g...

Any of our volunteers. You can also pick up a copy of the magazine if you dont have it already and find us online at smithsonianassociates. Org. Please take a moment to silence any mobile devices. Housee cspan in the. Onight just an additional note, our exit, generally we have one in the back and one to your right. You may have noticed there is a lot going on in the Ridley Center today, and that backdoor is blocked, so please, for your safety and others, use this door to your right as the exit. I think that is all the announcements i have for you, and again, thank you to cspan for being here t...

Next on American History tv, historians present talks on two aspects of what the soviets aspects of the operation. Ready toow getting hand the stage over to an associate professor in the department of history at the university of windsor in canada. We met rob last year when he came down for our 2018 conference as an attendee. We are delighted to have him back with us to moderate our first session of the day. Without delay, dr. Nelson. [applause] good morning. Bout. E to the heavyweight these three major fronts for those of us, he saved the biggest one for last. Operation, one of the greatest, ...

A gentleman for whom i have tremendous respect in the field of military history more widely. We share a great interest in the First World War and have both done work in that era. His work is not at all limited can see war i as you today, but to world war ii and other conflicts in American Military history. The militarynth museum and library a joint awarded him the Military Museum and Library Literature award for Lifetime Achievement in military writing. I cannot think of anybody who deserves it more. [applause] thanks very much, ed. Are you ready to take to the air . Are you tired of being on ...