Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to serve b ultheir country in any capacity and the power belong to the people and would bepo returned to those who held it. He like to say i never forget who i was, where i ca
Crisis facing the party under trump. Its trumps erratic response to multiple events that have. Many people on edge tonight. After russia threatened to shoot downy u. S. Missile launched against syria, trump responded get ready, russia, because they will be coming nice and new and smart. Shouldnt be partner with a gas killing animal. Even as he deals with the growing conflict in syria, he appears preoccupied with the Mueller Probe threatening the people who oversee the investigation. Much of the bad blood with russia is caused by the fake and corrupt russia investigation headed up by the loyalists or people that working for obama. Rosenstein signed a fisa warrant and the comey letter. Reports paint a disturbing portrait of his state of mind. According to the New York Times, the president is near what two people close to the west wing described as a meltdown. A republican operative tells poe little cothe president is using his, you fill in the blank and saying were at a different level n
respect enormously. i would go further and say what we re looking at here is a reshaping of the world order for the first time since i would say the bretten woods era where our unchallenged power and authority to make the rules of the game of international relations no longer prevails and i would urge everybody to read barbara tuckerman s the guns of august . the lack of american leadership and the lack really of international leadership is manifesting itself in the middle east, but it is it is global in nature. the idea bibi netanyahu being a global international relations authority should scare
number of options and all of those are still on the table. final decisions haven t been made yet on that front. the president has a number of options at his disposal and all of those remain on the table. ryan crocker, former u.s. ambassador to syria, warned that the tangle of aligns is reminiscent of the situation leading to world war i. lis. and so right now, the level of complexity is immense. iran is reisraeli, united state hezbollah, al qaeda, free syrian army, syrian democratic forces. it minds me uncomfortably of how the stage was set in august, 1914. oh, dear. nobody wanted a war then. that s about the gun dfz august. barbara tuckerman s how we got into a world without wanting to. kevin system founding editor of defense one and robin wright