National security staff in 1969 and traveled the world on every major Diplomatic Initiative in the midst of the vietnam war and greater cold war. He was with dr. Kissinger with negotiators in paris that culminated in the paris peace accords. He was with president nixon in moscow during his first in 1972 and heip 1973 yom after the kippur war. He was a key actor in the historic trip to china in 1972 known popularly as the week that changed the world. Severalto hold positions. From 2015 to 2016 he conducted oral histories with dr. Kissinger on behalf of the Nixon Foundation. The collection of interviews cover a variety of subject matter. Be readussia, and can in this book called kissinger on kissinger reflections of diplomacy, grand, strategy, and leadership. It is available for purchase in our museum store and mr. Lord will sign copies. Ambassador lord will be interviewed by dr. Frank gh gannon. He worked with Randolph Churchill to write the biography of his father, instant churchill. H
[background noise] the university of massachusetts amherst announced the acquisition of papers of Daniel Ellsberg, which will be available to the public. In an event marking the acquisition, pentagon papers Whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg talks about the proper problem with Nuclear Weapons. His recent book the doomsday machine, confessions of a Nuclear War Planner details his three pentagon papers work as a teacher analyst for the Rand Corporation strategic analyst for the Rand Corporation. He talks about the role of whistleblowers in the 21st century. All right, good evening, good afternoon, good evening. Thetings and welcome to 21st annual friends of the Umass Librarys fall recession. I am the dean of libraries here. Today i have the honor of welcoming you to a special program, planning to celebrate the acquisition of daniel bysbergs personal archive the university. This represents an important addition to the Umass Library archives and the university. The Library Special collections a
Planner was to improve the eisenhower euro plan for Strategic Nuclear operations in general war with the soviet union. That was a low bar because the eisenhower plan was a diverse military plan. Amy that is Daniel Ellsberg, one of the worlds most wellknown whistleblowers. In 1971, he was a high level defense analyst when he leaked a top secret report on u. S. Involvement in vietnam to the New York Times and other publications that came to be known as the pentagon papers and played a key role in ending the vietnam war. Few know that ellsberg was also consultant who drafted plans for nuclear war. In his new book titled the doomsday machine confessions of a Nuclear War Planner, Daniel Ellsberg reveals for the first time that he also made copies of topsecret documents from his Nuclear Studies an entire second set of papers in addition to the pentagon papers for which he is known. I want to awaken people to the dangers and the possibility of destroying most life on earth by general war, not
Andrew calendar Andrew Carroll works with war correspondents, he talked about world war i as described by general John Pershing, commander of us forces in the conflict. From the National World war i museum in kansas city, this is an hour. [inaudible conversations] good evening, everyone, good evening, thank you, rainy day books and the National World war i museum and memorial are pleased to welcome Andrew Carroll, editor of several New York Times bestsellers including war letters, letters of the nation and behind the lines, andrew also edited on a pro bono basis operation homecoming, iraq, afghanistan and the homefront, and words of us troops and their families inspiring the Emmy Awardwinning film of the same name. In 1998 andrew started the legacy products, and initiative that honors veterans and activeduty troops by preserving their wartime correspondence and travel to all 50 states in 40 countries including iraq and afghanistan and collected an estimated 100,000 previously unpublish
If you would like to view other after words programs online, go to our web site, booktv. Org, type afterwards into the search bar and all previous after words episodes will be available. Welcome to springfield, missouri, we visited the city to explore its rich history and literary culture, located 80 miles east of the kansas border, springfield wag the site of many major conflicts during the civil war. Today it is the their largest city in the state, with a population of 167,000. With the help of our partners at media come, for the next hour and ten minutes well explore the local literary culture, starting with jeremy, the border between them, and as he shares the story of bleeding kansas, a conflict occurring along the kansas missouri border in the struggle over slavery. And the question of whether kansas territory would be open for slavery or free soil. Violence of 1850s is really about that question and becomes wrapped in so much more. You have sites over water and access to grazing