Captioning performed by vitac in europe and south america and africa, covert actions coup attempts, some assassination plots became revealed in the 70s. This was an intense focus that in the 70s most of this came to light in the church committees and this was a real revelation what the cia had been doing. A really wrenching experience for people who had been in the cia and not accustomed to much congressional oversight. All of a sudden on television, all of the dirty laundry of the first three decades of its existence was being aired. And this had an effect according to both memoirs and documents and number of people ive spoken to from this period of of the generation that came in after the church committee, that those who came in in the late 70s, came under this period when the cia was trying to reorient itself back to being a traditional Espionage Service, not only the covert actions of the 70s early 50s and 60s but also the vietnam era. You saw intense focus during vietnam. Those wh
Let us pray. Lord, god, source of all that is good and just, be with us now and help us begin this ceremony in gratitude, for this opportunity to recognize and honor your gifts of courage and selfless service. Witnessed to us in these heroic acts of Lieutenant Colonel charles kettles. Let his courage remind us today and tomorrow of the great Human Dignity that possesses an indomitable spirit to serve and protect those most in need. We ask now that Lieutenant Colonel kettles actions we honor provide hope and inspiration for those who face the perils of terror and danger as they serve their brothers and sisters. Lord, bless this ceremony, the acts we honor, that they may strengthen the values that we hold dear in this nation, in our military, and our families, and our way of life. We ask all this in your holy name, amen. Good morning, everybody. Please have a seat. Welcome to the white house. Of all the privileges of this office, none is greater than serving as the commander in chief of
And on monday watch the Democratic National Convention Live from philadelphia. Saturday night at 8 00 eastern well take a look back at past Democratic National conventions starting with the 1960 convention in los angeles with the Democratic Party selecting john f. Kennedy as their nominee. The day our concern must be with our future, for the world is changing, the old era is ending, the old ways will not do. He went on to become the youngest person elected president. Well also feature notable female speakers, including u. S. Representative barbara jordan, who spoke in new york city and became the first africanamerican woman to be a keynote speaker. Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in beliefs firmly etched in the National Conscience of all of us. Then the 1984 convention in San Francisco with former new york congresswoman geraldine ferraro, and ann richards, who in 1988 was the state treasurer for texas. She spoke at the conventi
The full soviet period but are predominantly about the 70s and early 80s. There is relatively little there about the stalin period. There are a few very interesting things, but much less about the stalin period than i had thought there might be. There is also a good deal less about the 50s and early 60s. As you move into the 60s, it increases, but particularly as in the the large majority of it deals with the 70s and early 80s. So you can find very important things there. Alexander vassiliev is another former kgb foreign Intelligence Officer. He was working on a project for the book that came out as haunted wood, which was coauthored he and the late Allen Weinstein coauthored. It came out i think in 1997 or 98. That book dealt with soviet espionage in the United States during the stalin era. And that book also was able to deal with only a very small portion of what vassiliev actually transcribed. He was allowed to work in a room where archivisted from the foreign intelligence archive b
Los gatos is 88 degrees with 30 humidity. Sfo is blowing up 35 miles per hour, but at this area, the wind is light. This is fire season and we are fortunate that the firefighters got to handle on this fire so quickly. Its a rough area to fight fires with a lot of terrain and you will at this point. When i come back, we will look at the heat and we will have a spare the air day tomorrow. Ann rubin has been trying to make her way to the scene of the fire and she joins us now on the phone. Where are you and what you see . Reporter thats a good question. We have been taking frontage roads trying to wind our way up near the fire. Basically, as you mention, highway 17 is at a standstill. They are diverting some traffic along bear creek. We were sent a different direction and we are on a tiny road where i am watching attractive a tractortrailer trying to navigate that. Countless cars are stalled in the heat and no one is going anywhere fast. All of this started from the car fire at about 3 00