The 75th anniversary of the cold war. With me today is dr. William hitchcock, the professor of history at the university of virginia. Dr. Hitchcock is the author of several books on the cold war, most recently the age of Eisenhower America and the world in the 1950s. Published in 2018 by simon and schuster. Will, welcome and ask for joining us. William thank you, good to be with you. Looking forward to a conversation. Sean lets get to it. In surveying the 45 years of the cold war and its impact, one could argue that it fundamentally changed the constitutional framework of the American Government, that it was this period that saw the greater concentration of power in the president at the expense of the congress, that more than ever in our history because of the challenges of the cold war our National Course is now set by the personality of the president. Would you agree with that . William well, yes, i would agree with that. And i think its been characteristic of the presidency over the
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Agreeing on a date for national elections, but not how they will get that. Chaos in the country plunges into its worst constitutional crisis in decades who is now leaderless after its interim president resigned. And its fall. Dustin johnson has won the 2nd major title of his career american claiming the masters, the record breaking school. Hello everyone. Armenias Prime Minister is resisting pressure to resign after days of anger over the ceasefire deal with azerbaijan. Hes given his 1st address since signing the agreement. This is he says he takes full responsibility for the loss of territory in the going to cut about. But hes facing a lot of protests and outrage about the concessions he made. And what russian peacekeepers have now been deployed in areas where the land is being handed over to azerbaijan. Theyre going to be there 2000 of the monitoring the region for at least 5 years. I think armenians of burned buildings and destroyed facilities as they left the district of series and
Has announced his resignation. We know that we can do this. We can vote back talks on libya, wrap up with rival groups, agreeing on a date for national elections, but not now. And his 4th, Dustin Johnson has won the 2nd major title of his career, the american claiming the masters with a record breaking score. So in the last hour or so, weve had some more encouraging news on the corona, virus vaccine front with news from another major drug Company Currently in clinical trials. It is the us pharmaceutical firm, modernity, which is early results from its vaccine show. It is 94. 5 percent effective. Remember donald trump made a deal with madonna back in august to purchase 100000000 doses of the vaccine when it was ready. But then is the 2nd candidate with a shot at getting approval. Pfizer announced last week that its vaccine was 90 percent effective in the late stage trials. So promising news of course, infections continue to climb this man, the u. K. Prime minister Boris Johnson, himself