Houses a Museum Dedicated to remembering the cold war. This is just under one hour. Gary welcome. My name is Francis Gary Powers jr. , i go by gary. I am the founder of the Cold War Museum at vint hill, virginia, about 45 miles west of washington, d. C. I founded the Cold War Museum in 1996 to honor cold war veterans, preserve cold war history and educate future generations about the time period. What i realized when i was giving lectures to Highschool Students in the area, 19 times out of 10, the students wouldnt know anything about the cold war or the u2 incident. They would think the u2 incidents have to do with the rock band. As a result, i noticed that they needed to be taught about the cold war. In 1996, we founded the Cold War Museum, which opened in 2011 here at a former Army Communication base near the washington, d. C. Area. It used to be used by the nsa, cia, Army Security agency and other groups to monitor the Electronic Communications around the washington, d. C. Embassy r
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Phones were all theho rage. [laughter] facebook was founded the world war ii memorial was dedicated, george w. Bush was reelected president. Major League Baseball retur to washington as the Washington Nationals. [applause] fast forward 15 years the Washington Nationals are in the world series. [applause] and David Rubenstein is back as we all know cofounder as well as chairman of the board or the boards of trustees of the jfk center for performing arts. The Smithsonian Institution and the council on Foreign Relations and we all know he is a engaged in many many many other philanthropic activities too numerous to mention. David coined the phrase patriotic philanthropy with generous financing of the restoration of the historical landmark including the Washington Monument the Lincoln Memorial the Us Marine Corps war memorial Washington Library and monticello in montpelier and the arlington house also purchasing copies like the declaration of independence, the emancipation proclamation and
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[speaking in foreign language] it is beyond belief now, it was beyond belief then. This monstrous tyranny to enslave mankind. This was hitlers way to unify europe. Under one master race for which the weak must be enslaved. Liberal, socialist, democrats, aryan, or nonaryan, dutch, polish, scandinavian or anglosaxon, this was your end if you did not fit. This was a sewer, and the cleansing of that sewer for which modern europe had to evolve. 1945, the war to end the tyranny was like all wars appallingly destructive. Then, as western and eastern armies neared each other across defeated germany, the field radios crackled in russian, louder, louder until, at last, they met at the banks. There democracy from the west and covered his from the east rejoiced and shook hands. For now, our europe was once again a place fit to live in. Now it was up to us, to ourselves and our leaders, to make that europe not just a place fit to live in, but one to be proud of. So began the first of europes peacet