Influence and image. Tonight, well tell you the story of pat nixon, although her time in the white house was really eclipsed by her husbands resignation from office in the wake of watergate. So were going to tell more about her record and learn more about her life before the white house, what she did while she was there, and her legacy. Here are our two guests to tell her story. Tim naftali is a president ial historian and the former head of the Nixon Library. And meet mary brennan, who is a pat nixon biographer and also history professor at texas state university. Well, welcome to both of you. Lets start with this perception of pat nixon. She is described in your book, actually, as an enigma. So what should people know . What are a couple of things about pat nixon that theyd be surprised to learn . Ms. Brennan pat was fun and funny. People who knew her talked about her sense of humor. And she was adventurous. As a young woman, she worked for a hospital in new york city, and she would
1777. The frontiersman had been expecting an attack. They got word that a large scale attack was coming, and they called all their militia groups together. Toitia companies together garrison the fort. Of course, the indians were nobodies full when it came to warfare. They had spies out, people watching the forge and the had the belief that time spent reconnaissance in reconnaissance is never wasted. Militiated until the was there, seven were dismissed and to left the garrison. That is when the indians decided to attack. On september 1, 1777. The fact that there was only one company left and one was sent up river to stop the indians. They had wasad within their nature of fighting. Siege craft is not with they did. They were outstanding hit and d in the woods and open fighting, they were the masters of run and gun. The indians were the finest light infantry of their day. In their native forests. By contrast the militia were parttime citizen soldiers and quite poor at it. With the indians
Men, german men who were drafted or had been conscripted. I also wanted to look at an area that had been relatively on it understudied and that is the leningrad region. There is a lot written about the siege but not a lot about the german operations in that area. I wanted to add a bit to the literature that has developed about the war, most of which focuses either on the center of the front with moscow or the southern section of the front. Interviewer what was the ideological struggle . Hitlers struggle was to create this racial empire, that the germans could economically exploits of the can so they can continue the war. The idea was that the main goal had, they were interested in feeding their home front. This goes back to the First World War where germany was blockaded and you see that the german home front brakes. This is primarily due to the german state being unable to feed its population. Hitler and his leadership are convinced that they can grasp for from the soviet union, parti
To be one of the few organizations that did see a very generous budget, including the addition of 2,000 officers this fiscal year, and in the administrations request for 2015, theres also a request for another 2,000 plus officers. Which we know are critically important to securing the economy and encountering this threat. I understand the manpower. Im concerned about technology and other things necessary to support the increase in people along the border. Im looking at the International Side of it. Well, we use those officers to deploy them in places like preclearance overseas. Deploy them in the Immigration Advisory Program. Deploy them to the National Targeting Center. When we collect the information, we collect the intelligence reports and others too. For instance, the officers based on their experience and their knowledge in turns that into actionable operational entities and being able to question them and continue to address that. So its not a matter of resource. Are you satisfie
And youre watching booktv on cspan2. Heres our primetime lineup for tonight. That all happens tonight on cspan2s booktv. Up next on booktv, after words, with guest host james swanson, author and urged fellow. This week James Mcpherson and his latest book embattled rebel Jefferson Davis as commander in chief. Into the acclaimed historian presents confederate president Jefferson Davis as an astute military strategist whose failures, he argues, are not the reason the confederacy lost the civil war. This program is about one hour. Host jim, lets start at the beginning. Its november 1860, the republicans won the election but lincoln is president elect. Who is Jefferson Davis in the fall of 1860 . Guest to Jefferson Davis and the fall of 1860 is a senator from mississippi. He has served in that capacity off and on for about eight years, interrupted in the middle 1850s by for years as secretary of war under president franklin pierce. He was one of the most prominent of the southern senators.