Journalist who covered the world. Herbert of the New York Times kept a carbon copy of every dispatch he sent to the papers headquarters in new york so that people like me and as years later could see how terribly these were censored and condensed by the time they finally appeared in the newspaper. I actually concluded that they did not do a lot of political censorship but matthews was quite longwinded and he was one of those reporters of editors and former editors that you know, certain reporters that get wildly offended every time you cut a sentence out of their story. So i found an abundance of material to work from. As i mentioned i think it is always fun when you can put documents together that cast several different lights, several different light on the same event. Sometime even the same person, saying something differently at different points in time. A little little example of that, for example, in hemingways novel about the war for whom the bell tolls, incidentally the central
Get audio coverage and up to the minute updates and podcast time for our popular affairs and history programs. Stay up to date on all the election coverage, cspan radio app means you always have cspan on the go. Governor Adlai Stevenson accepted his Party Nomination at the 1952 National Convention in his home state illinois. Governor stevenson lost the 1952 election to general Dwight Howard with 44 of the popular vote. The eisenhower is 55 . This speech is only 50 minutes of our coverage of nbc news. The introduction by president truman. [ applause ] mr. President , ladies and gentlemen of the convention, my fellow citizens. I accept your nomination and your program. [ applause ] i should have preferred to hear those words uttered by a stronger, wiser, a better man than myself. [ applause ] after this president s speech, i even feel better about myself. [ applause ] none of you, my friends, can appreciate what is in my heart. I can only hope that you understand my words. They will be f
There are an array of options and that is certainly one that is there. We are going to turn to membership for questions. Im told to remind you it is on the record. We ask you wait for a microphone. It will bring it to you. Speak directly into the microphone, stand stand up, tell us your name, affiliation and limit yourself to one question. Lets start over here with this gentleman. Hello. My memory on this may be hazy, but i was on the defense policy board at the time of the earliest crises. Somehow or another at the time the cold war was ending they made it possible for some of their records to be made available to us. One of the things i was surprised, for those of us who saw the records, where it took about a year to persuade the russian and chinese to get into this. They were very much afraid of the american response and they didnt want to go to war with america again. That was certainly an opening. I should back up and say, it was my opinion then that we simply had to send a person
Inventories are today. 11 00 a. M. This morning. Hillary Clinton Holding a News Conference in the next few moments. We will take that live. When it begins. Road map with apple unveiling the iphone 7, will the new features boost the companys product cycle. Getting a downgrade from wells this morning. Hp enterprise shares falling despite what was an earnings beat, servers numbers perhaps a concern. Ceo meg whitman right next to us here at post nine. And b of a Ceo Brian Moynihan said more cost cutting is coming. First up apple hoping the newly launched iphone 7 and 7 plus will revive slowing sales. The features include longer battery life, higher resolution cameras, Water Resistance and, of course, the lack of that headphone jack. Meantime wells downgrading it to market perform expects shares to be range bound since positives surrounding apple largely unknown. The journal today, though, says enough new fiereatures people w be tempted to upgrade rather than next year. Age is ignorance. I
We are glad to have become today. We will change the methodology little bit. We have two votes. When i 2 45 and one following that vote. We are going to run the hearing continuously. We going to waive Opening Statements. We will go straight to secretary mcdonell to make his full statement. Then we will go into q and a. With your cooperation, will work with those two votes. If we do shutdown, it will only be for a couple minutes. Let me welcome everybody to this meeting of the Center Veterans affairs meeting. I think todays hearing will be equally as good as last week. The commission on care is a great project that examined the veteran administrations Delivery System for our veterans and had a lot of recommendations. A lot of provoking recommendations. I appreciate the embrace that secretary mcdonell has given to ideas from others that have come in. We have talked a little bit about them. He will have a great testimony. ,et me welcome the secretary Robert Mcdonald to make his testimony.