I found that fascinating. He was a victorian man. He made himself into a classical man. He lived his life in accordance with a precursor to the christian ethic that you find in plato and greek philosophers. This godless ethic. I found that fascinating. I would enjoy talking with him about that. And then lets see. The second front. I would like to have a final word, because we americans have set him up with at one point, almost cowardly in his aversion to the second front. What does that mean second front . The push from general marshall to go to normandy. 1942, the sooner the better. Franklin roosevelt, general marshall. We have to fight somewhere. It is an election year. Churchill pushed back in 1942 and 1943. The normandy invasion came in 1944. For that, he put it forward for roosevelt and stalin most definitively. I would like to hear him tell me in his own words. In his memoirs, 10 years later writing these, he avoids writing about the squabbles. He does not even mention them. But
Serious question, what would it be . Well, he did not like strangers. He did not like the press. I would ask him about his religious beliefs, or lack thereof. I found that fascinating. He was a victorian man. He made himself into a classical man. He had he lived his life in accordance with a precursor to the christian ethic that you find in plato and greek philosophers. This godless ethic. I found that fascinating. I would enjoy talking with him about that. And then lets see. The second front. I would like to have a final word, because we americans have set him up with at one point, almost cowardly in his aversion to the second front. What does that mean second front . The push from general marshall to go to normandy. 1942, the sooner the better. Franklin roosevelt, general marshall. We have to fight somewhere. It is an election year. Churchill pushed back in 1942 and 1943. The normandy invasion came in 1944. For that, he put it forward for roosevelt and stalin most definitively. I wou
According to a d classified top secret german document written before the start of the ukraine conflict with from moscow to the world. This is our international. Im rachel blevins. And these are the top stories, this our, the russian city of belgrade, on the border with ukraine, has experienced a partial power outage after an attack by Ukrainian Forces that, according to the regions governor. This strike caused a fire at the facility, which has since been put out. There are no reports of any casualties. The previous day saw an Ammunition Depot exploded following a strike by the ukrainian military. Ah, Vladimir Putin has question, the future of the green corridor out of ukraine. If it is confirmed the explosives used in the recent attack on the crimean bridge were shred, shipped from odessa in a grain truck. Any issue or the Russian Federal Security Service has stated that most likely the exposes, were transported from a desk by sea that has been clearly established yet whether a grain
On booktv on cspan 2. Good afternoon. I am so glad to see all of you here on this Beautiful Day to join a National Book festival. Mine is in a Community Affairs at wells fargo for the midatlantic region. And so want to be here representing wells fargo is both an avid reader myself. I really dont remember a time in my life when i wasnt an avid reader. I just loved reading. I grew up in a very small town in North Carolina and had the benefit of the library account be an adjacent to backyard. But at the library of congress obviously, but its a wonderful asset to the community. Around the corner to parents to pick out books and am feeling very, very grown up when i got to go by myself to check out books myself. Ive attended here today come you must all know books can take you to foreign lands and give you a different perspective about your neighborhood. They can introduce you to people that came generations before and connect people in real time. My favorite incident happened to me when i
Committee is saying, dont you know theres an election and i say i have cleared these names in the white house and anyway, all my guys did just terrific. They were confident, they were competent, even some of the people who had objected called and said we love you guys and jim was the secretary and he later became our ambassador of japan and he went over, he was president of northwestern university. Sophia had ruled all of these people out because they were registered democrats, i would not have had the confidence. Im not saying that i shouldnt have asked the question. But anyway. If you have competent people, they are going to do much better than if you dont. The first job is to form your team and give people who are competent. If something happens that is surprisingly good to my would like ted know about that, too. We can learn from those things. You have got to give people leaders and objectives and hold accountable. Accountability is very important. Economics or governmental systems