Thai im Judy Woodruff im thrilled to be joining these three amazing others today. You see them on the screen. They are George Packer whose latest book our man Richard Holbrooke and the end of the American Century and Susan Glasser and peter baker his book is out this fall the man who ran washington the life and times of james a. Baker to third. Two brilliant books about too complicated and fascinating men. They were born a decade apart baker in houston in 1930 and holbrooke in manhattan in 1941. Baker a republican trained as a lawyer holbrooke a democrat a Foreign Service officer a student of foreign policy. Their lives took very different trajectories but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. Picking up on that this is a man with great vision and it was there before he came to washington. It was. He was a family feud aristocracy. He was expected to great things. He had a very dominating father who imparted on him the legacy of his family or the bakers
Prom and i was the equivalent of a freshman at the university and i came home at 2 00 oclock at night and the light was on americas and the war. Why did i touch you so much. What did that mean for you. I did not cry then. How old were you. I was 18. The late author john lucas, indepth was born 20 years ago, since 2000 over 230 nonfiction and fiction authors over time have appeared on indepth, Freedman Alice walke walker, bob woodward, george will, just to name a few. Over the next three hours our goal is to review the last 20 years of indepth but also to ask you a couple of questions, here they are, who was your favorite indepth guest, what book are you reading now and who is your favorite Nonfiction Author, that is what we will be talking about and showing the video from the past 20 years as well but here is how you can dial in on the 20th anniversary of indepth, 202 7488200 for those of you in the mountain in the Eastern Central time zone 202 7488201 if you live in the mountain and p
Not kovach. We were introduced i tom, local scribe here years ago and ron has been very encouraging and helped me quite a bit with this book in terms ofbackground and research and so forth. Ron of course was a vietnam veteran. Most of the book that i wrote is about world war ii veterans and i just wanted to give you background before ron and istart speaking. Before world war ii if you were paralyzed you were pretty much a dead end her, i know hope as they were called. Its the average lifespanwith 18 months for someone wounded in world war i. World war ii was the game changer. The advent of penicillin, they had surgical units right behind the battlefield, right behind the front line and they had better evacuation back to the mainland. So by the end of world war ii we do have a cohort of about 2500 us veterans who are paralyzed and returned home and they had a chance at a normal life and this was the first cohort that was going to have this and it presented a dilemma and a bit of an issu
Worrying scenes in the last hour or so this was a lot fuller than than it is now a lot of the protesters a lot of who were supporting various different opposition groups that its a very peacefully gathering here showing some sort of unity. Basically left because a group of rival opposition supporters from maine who support the new Prime Minister a man that was voted in by an emergency parliamentary session. Last week who was freed from jail by those protesters a group of them came into the square they were both tools projectiles thrown. Scuffles the statue behind me that you can see there were indeed gunshots. And as i say a lot of people here are very nervous and have left the square now the supporters of the Prime Minister most of them have gone back to where they are protesting around the Prime Ministers office but there is a great sense of factionalism here in tension this evening and as you say the president has called this state of emergency concern what he says about possible co
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