Necessarily conceived as such, or did he . I guess this is a big source of contention. What did reagan really intend to achieve with this pursuit of sdi . Guest he intended to protect the United States against incoming Ballistic Missiles house of representatives and it becomes much more, becomes this really big source of discussion during these two days. Im just interested to learn some the details and to really get a sense in your book of the kind of granular back and forth. Guest without cutting them up too much although were here to tout the book, the chapters three, four and five go back and forth with what these two men are discussing. What you do is you see them raw. You see them by themselves but you see them with their real views. Host how may people in the room with them . Guest there are the two of them, the two Foreign Ministers who dont participate much at all. There are two notetakers, thank god, right in what they say. One rushing from one american, and they by and large
Forth had this popularity. The first thing is, i dont think it was that popular. These guys were always a small fringe. The mainstream of Egyptian Society was not like that. But it did have popularity in some quarters obviously. I think it was because of the structural contradictions of a post Colonial Society like egypt which, you know, from the 70s from the late 70s the Egyptian Government was seen by a lot of egyptians as more or less collaborating with israel in keeping the palestinians down and then the religious authorities, they didnt really do anything about that. Of course, a lot of them were appointed by the government. They would have been fired if they had spoken out. Its kind of like in any society when something is going on that the young people feel is just wrong, then you get protests and sometimes even violence. You know, vietnam war period in the United States, a lot of young people decided that that war was wrong and then, you know, you got that and so forth. I think
What did general dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . Its puzzling to me, anyway, that perhaps the most important decision of the 20th century did not bequeath to history and posterity a quote to mark the occasion, something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like macarthurs vow to the people of the philippines, i shall return. The stakes of the invasion certainly merited verbal splendor, if not eloquence, if the the overlord operation had failed the allies might never have won the war and yet eyewitnesses to eisenhowers great moment of decisions could not agree on what he said and as for eisenhower he could not even agree with himself. He related five versions of his fateful words to journalists and biographers over the years that perhaps even more mysteriously he wrote five different versions of the statement in a 1964 article commemorating the 20th anniversary of dday. To put those words, whatever they might have be
Succession. Actual soldiers had a delight in destroying the cradle of the confederacy. They use them as bringing the war upon them. I think we have one more question. Why did it stop . Citieswe not see further earned in the same kind of mercenary manner . Withdrew back into virginia and they were occupied. Did notticular strategy move forward from that point on. Did theire certainly fair share of burning throughout the war. They did not have the opportunity as much in the north. Burn parts of town. For a monetary reason . There were a lot of soldiers. Ofy took great joy in our revenge on both sides. Field or because these were the houses that a woman whose that at us or that kind of a vengeful action. That was more individually direct did. Screeria nigeria. Tenness that resulted in the almost total destruction of his army. Remind your children in this by centennial year, when we are the first generation of the americans who have experienced attacks on the continental United States, we
Wilderness. Is he going to go bushwhacking in the wilderness . Youre setting them on fire, g e nice, brooks. Brooks is going to speak to us contingencies and circumstances, u. S. Grant and the problem of virginia in 1864. Ks brooks simpson. S [ applause ] well, good morning, everyone. Id like to first thank the teas at the civil war institute. Especially alison and diane as well as peter. I must admit that i feel naked up here without a scarf on. Peters fashion attire will whie understand that reference. While peter recognizes that his adviser Gary Gallagher made d nc mistakes, my binder did no suchs thi thing. I also thought they would dwell on the Sexual Practices and fantasies of confederate generals and their historians. N i thoughtab id tell a little story of my own in this regard. Not about me. Thats a tmi moment, youll have to join me on facebook for that one. That several years ago, my wife, cheryle and i went to wife haven, which is the plantation where ulysses s. Grants inlaw