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Andrew krepinevich and barry watts talk about their book at the pentagons office and the pentagons think tank from 1973 to 2015. The coauthors are former members of marshalls staff. This event was held at the nixon president ial library and museum in yorba linda california. [applause] tonights discussion is that Andrew Marshall who served from nixon to obama. He retired january at the ripe age of 93 years old. For his pioneering work called the hidden hand before and behind American Foreign policy. His two former aides, let me back up for a second. What is significant is nixon tapped marshall ...

Andrew marshall, a pentagon legend who served from president s nixon to obama. He just retired this past january at the ripe age of 93 years old. For his pioneering work foreman undersecretary of defense douglas [inaudible] called him the hidden hand behind American Foreign policy. Whats significant is that president nixon first tapped marshall to evaluate our military capabilities against that of our adversaries, at the time namely the soviet union. The concept is called net assessment. His former aides Andrew Krepinevich and barry watts are here to discuss the achievement. S of their mentor ...

Q a. Each week, American History tv sits in on a lecture with one of Americas College professors. Next from a professor next professor Jennifer Marie about how civil war reunions of the reconstruction era to the present she described how after. Two years after the war, the focus was reconciliation but has expanded to include slavery as a cause of the war. This class is 1. 5 hours. Jennifer murray last time we met with our discussion of the culture of the civil war commemoration we left off with some themes, talking about david blake and civil war reunions, themes of reconciliation and we had a...

Life. Protesters new aggregations from german magazine der speeg somepiegel, cs spying and thank you Edward Snowden, highlighted the calls to rein in the nsa. Our jean meserve was there. In washington, hundreds gathered to protest the National Security agencys surveillance programs. The man who made them public was called a hero. Form he nsa contractor Edward Snowden is in russia but sent a statement. Its about power, control and trust in government. About whether you have a voice, in our democracy or decisions were made for you rather than with you. The protestors messages to the government, ...

This panel. Im catherine clinton. Im the denman professor of American History at the university of texas in san antonio and is my tag says im on the Advisory Board and im an author and so it is wonderful. Im also a veteran. I was colonel for a year when i taught at the citadel, but today i went to say that im so pleased that were witnessing a great reunion a great kind of reckoning coming up against we have been meeting virtually for the past few months, but isnt it great to be back in person and have an afternoon where we explore such wonderful topics as race and lincoln and leadership in lin...