Im delighted to welcome jennett conat who is an played author and the doctor of ryan con nat the director of the Manhattan Project, one of the best sellers. And the shell be speaking tonight about her new book the great secret the classified world war 2 that launched the war on cancer. I want to thank the museum for inviting me to be we youve. Alas its virtually. My first zoom presentation so bear with me. Ive had a lot of coffee and im thinking i should have had a lot of wine but here we go ill start off with a quote from winston churchill. He had way with words. He once observed men occasionally stomach pel across the truth stumble across the truth but most of them. Pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. Lieutenant colonel Stewart Francis alexander, the remarkable hero of my become did not hurry off. In fact he refused to leave the scene of a military disaster even when churchill himself warned him to he stayed, he paid attention, he investigated, and as a result, h
Watch American History tv this weekend on cspan3. Up next on American History tv on cspan3, an interview laura bush, what was your initial reaction the first time your husband said i think im going to run for president . Well, i cant really remember initially what my act reaction was. I think it was a bit slower than all of a sudden saying im going to run for president. He was governor and had been governor for one term and reelected and i slowly think we both started talking about it. He talked about it and of course other people were talking to him about it. I knew what it was like. I knew already what it would be like to run for president. I knew what it would be like to live in the white house. George and i had an advantage that only one other family has had so far, the John Quincy Adams family. Because wed seen somebody we loved in that office, and we visited him very often. We moved to washington in fact in 1987, rather, to work on president bushs campaign. And so i saw them then
He talked about it and of course other people were talking to him about it. I knew what it was like. I knew already what it would be like to run for president. I knew what it would be like to live in the white house. George and i had an advantage that only one other family has had so far, the John Quincy Adams family. Because wed seen somebody we loved in that office, and we visited him very often. We moved to washington in fact in 1987, rather, to work on president bushs campaign. And so i saw them then when they were campaigning nationwide, and they still had time to babysit barbara and jenna on a saturday night when george and i would want to go out to dinner. Really that year and a half we lived in washington until president bush was elected in november of 1988. It was a wonderful bonding time for our family. It was the only time i ever lived in the same town with my inlaws. And my motherinlaw and i really had a chance to bond. Our little girls had a chance to get to know their gra
And im jane this is the news hour live from doha coming up in the next sixty minutes christian leaders in the holy land come out strongly against the u. S. Recognition of jerusalem as israels capital. Oh. My god. The seventy thousand people homeless in the philippines and at least two hundred dead in the wake of Tropical Storm ten but. North korea calls the latest round of u. N. Sanctions aimed at its Nuclear Program an act of war. And well have more on one of the most amazing sports stories of the year as new n. H. L. Team the biggest Golden Knights beat the Washington Capitals to win their teeth home game at the city. Ellison in christian leaders have rejected the u. S. Decision to recognize jerusalem as israels capital calling it dangerous and an insult it follows weeks of demonstrations across the occupied palestinian territories since that decision was made at least fifteen protesters have now been killed Donald Trumps move was also made with outrage across the world hundreds of t
Recall that innocent civilians are trapped in the in the middle as your report just showed so we should first remind that but i think that this situation now is precarious because the Syrian Government forces will have to move to our three and there is no other choice aphelion is part of syria so therefore if they let the african down and they do not actually interfere that shows that they. Lenient with their vision of the territory and that is not the position of the Syrian Government in fact this turkish escalation brings the city as together it creates more unity among the city and it makes them realize that in the end they will have to be under the authority of the government the legitimate government in syria and that is the legitimate force equating to International Law that is supposed to control all syrian territory including after now the the turkish incursion into africa and under the pretext the alleged pretext of eliminating terrorism is there you know this alleged pretext