American history tv, all weekend, every weekend. Now, a visit to the cia museum in langley, virginia, where the curator presents collection highlights and explains the Museum Mission of preserving and presenting agency history. We are standing in the memorial lobby of the original headquarters building. Number of has a significant memorials in it. Every visitor to the agency comes through this entrance. Every new Agency Officer takes their oath of office here in this lobby, in front of 107 of our fallen officers. They walked across the agency field to take their place in the lobby. And the father of Central Intelligence is watching over their shoulders as they begin our begin a career for our Central Intelligence agency in our nation. We are standing close to a sculpture of the father of Central Intelligence. Donovan was tapped by president roosevelt in 1942 to head the office of Strategic Services. That organization had grown out of an earlier one hold the coordinator of information,
About where you are going . Do you have the opportunities to get ahead . We are asking the yes and asking a yes and no question. The number is you can also send us an email, send us a tweet, or join us on facebook. Com. This is what the question looks like on our twitter page. Do you think there is an opportunity to get ahead in america i . , ifd on the new gallup poll you want to check it out it is online at gallup. Com. Opportunitynty of to get ahead here in america. The survey was released over the last couple of days. While the u. S. Has historically prided itself on an open ended mobility, celebrating rags to riches stories, rising income inequality and a normally and abnormally high Unemployment Rate can call the question just how accurate this cherished belief is. Politicians have focused on reducing social inequality as a key part of their policy initiatives. Fewer believing there is opportunity to get ahead. To get ahead. 7 00 eastern time as we moved back one hour as wheat an
Between what is clear and what we know that we can differences between what is clear but we know that we can discuss in a closed session. On the site, we have the tools to reconcile any gaps, any discrepancies. Part of it may have a simple explanation. For example, opcw in its statement yesterday refers to 23 sites, but also refers to 41 facilities. And covering differences in definition between sites and facilities is part of the answer. I dont want to speculate on what the rest of the answer is, only to emphasize we have the tools, the resources to resolve those differences, and we will. One brief additional, if i may. Does the United States have confidence in the opcw in their technical capacity, their independence, and their object id . In their technical capacity and objectivity, absolutely. They have done a wonderful job in a difficult environment so far and we salute the organizations and the inspectors of many different nationalities who have done that job. Great, thank you. Th
Thank you all for being here. And heather, we honor you today. You were there all along guiding and ack anying tom across all the peaks and the valleys right to the end. E thank you for your spirit, your generosity and your example as h enlivened this house well as your own for many years. Welcome back. Inempty it ismous ironic he ran for congress in the first place. He actually did it in a moment of anger. The day was july 16, 1964. The beetles had just returned to liverpool after their first u. S. Tour. President johnson had recently signed the Civil Rights Act and was on his way to a landslide victory that november. And a 35yearold tom foley was having lunch in downtown spo can. A gifted lawyer from a prominent local family and trusted aid to Scoop Jackson. Some mentioned to the guys he was eating lunch with he was thinking seriously about running for congress, not this time but the next time around. At which point one of his lynch companions bluntly dismissed the idea out of hand a
Religious piety. They grew up in a parsonage and were deeply influenced by the ideals of missionary calvinism, the idea that the world is divided between good and evil and that christians have to go out into the world and transform the evil into good. A very short step from that to take it into politics and believe that politically, the world is divided between good regimes and evil regimes. And that it is the duty of the good regimes, that is us to go , out into the world and destroy that evil. That is an important part of the dulles brothers formation. The other big influence on them was the decades that they spent as corporate lawyers working for this very important law firm, sullivan and cromwell in new york. That was not a law firm that you went to if you needed a contract drawn up or to be represented in court. Sullivan and cromwell had a specialty. That was pressuring small weak countries to accept the demands of big american corporations. That is what allen dulles and foster du