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Of approaching this. he obviously wanted to console the family, and one of the ways he did this was he wrote a letter to, as he said, whoever is president of the united states in 1956, 15 years later. and he asked whoever that would be to nominate colin kelly's at that period one-year-old son to west point, give him an appointment to west point. and roosevelt released the letter and he said i'm making this request as an act of faith in the destiny of our country, essentially i'm saying i think there will be a united states and a west point in 1956. >> michael, are you looking for our former pr...

Percentage. and the other thing is that the military tends -- i was so struck by what you and jack jacobs were talking about. >> yeah. >> one result of this is if you and i walk down let's say kt avenue in waushtd in the year let's just pick a year 1949, you know, we were after world war ii, you would have seen a lot of people in uniform walking down the street from every branch. you know, how often would you see that nowadays? >> that's a great point to end. michael besh has. michael, thank you as always. >> thank you, brian. >> a final break for us and coming up, the president gives himself ...

The battlefield. and i think one of the most important things for a president to do is, you know, if a president does not intend to push for victory, at least be frank about that. that's one thing that lyndon johnson did not do. he sent a lot of american soldier to vietnam privately saying i don't expect to win. i hope against hope that what we're not seeing tonight is donald trump sending americans into harm's way and privately essentially saying, as he did in 2012, the second we get out i expect this government to collapse. >> michael besh loss, thank you for being with us tonight. i appreci...

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Balance. >> this is absolutely lesson one of kissinger's state craft. it's clear that jared kushner and i think also clear that president trump has understood that, internalized that. up next we'll apply all of this to the big foreign policy challenges right now, including the north korea standoff and the massive bomb dropped on isis fighters in afghanistan yesterday. we'll also be joined by presidential historian michael besh loss to help put the week in historical perspective. national security analyst juan ser ratty on wikileaks and nbc's hallie jackson with a live report from the souther...