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If only there was some way to brighten it. Oh, of course. [laughter] announcer he was a true patriot. Bob this has been a great trip. We have been to england and germany, crete, thailand, vietnam, korea, and alaska, and we are going to keep on going until we find howard hughes. [laughter] announcer our heros hero. Bob the monsoon really caught up with us in danang. The sky was black. The field was a morass of mud, but nothing bothered these marines. They waited five hours in this sea of mud for the show. And with an audience like that, you really have to go to work. [cheering] bob i had a great arrival here. I stepped off the plane and disappeared. [laughter] [applause] announcer and no performer in history has been more beloved by more generations. If i can just figure out some sly, subtle way to get him on the couch. [laughter] announcer introducing thanks for the memories, the bob hope specials, exclusively from time life. A brandnew collection for the whole family to enjoy together
Hey edward. Reporter yeah, neil maybe the market is priced in the usmca will eventually get done but i have multiple sources stakeholders to usmca as well as congressional sources all being told that a deal with mexico over the changes to usmca has been finished. These sources are also told that canada would sign off on this deal and now a congressional source telling me that the language will be finalized in the next 24 hours and this deal is reratified by mexico also, the ratification process will be finished in canada and a vote is set here in the United States for ratification and the mexican trade negotiators back here in washington today this all center s around enforcement of labor provisions. And the House Speaker wanted the u. S. Inspectors to go in and make sure that mexico complies with workers, making 16 an hour , as well as other regulations. What mexico settled on is a neutral third party as well as the mexican and u. S. Representatives looking at compliance. Now with the
Insurgentsy within iran, the soviet union was trying to foster a communist insurgents in iran. We thought about that and sided with the shah of iran in part because he crushed that communist dissent in iran. I dont think most person political elites thought too much about the islamic disdents in that state. It was just kind of off the radar. Part of the reason i wrote the book i did was i was really trying to get across how reasonably so but nair rowly americans looked at alliances in that part of the world. We didnt think of islam as a political force. We feared communism. We cheered on what we thought as capitalist developed. We hoped for Democratic Development we didnt see the islamic, the green revolution that was coming. The United States and iran have had a complicated fraught relationship a long time. Really since the 1950s. Up until the 1950ss iran was a client state of great britain. But when wourmd ended and britain moved back to the colonial periphery. United states stepped
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