Anyway on this subject to the cold war tonight. We are celebrating 75th anniversary. Of um a very important moment in the development of our Foreign Policy with the with the long telegram canon wrote in from the soviet union and and sent to to harry truman and were pleased to be joined tonight by renowned author of Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times bestselling evan thomas who is written for and been an editor at time and newsweek has been on the programs. I wanted to get this right because there there were a couple of programs here meet the press. Hes been a frequent apparent but most importantly to most of our audience is the colbert report. This is one that hes been a part of as well. So i wanted to mention that but he is coauthor with isaac. All right, excuse me, Walter Isaacson of the wise men, which is really sort of the seminal work on this era and the the men who surrounded truman who kind of brought all this this to bear and and among these folks or principle among them is
Editor at time and newsweek has been on the programs. I wanted to get this right because theyre theyre a couple of programs here meet the press. Hes been a frequent apparent but most importantly to most of our audience is the colbert report. This is one that hes been a part of as well. So i wanted to mention that but he is coauthor with isaac. All right, excuse me, Walter Isaacson of the wise men, which is really sort of the seminal work on this era and the the men who surrounded truman who kind of brought all this this to bear and and chief among these folks are principle among them is is George Kennan, and id like to welcome evan and turn to him and ask him just kind of set us up a little bit with this long telegram business and who was kennan and why did he . Decide to write and you know, an 8,000 word telegram that he would send back from from moscow to washington. Thank you kurt. Im delighted to be at the Truman Library been there before. Im your virtually i hope to come back in p
Policy with the with the long telegram that canon wrote in from the soviet union and and sent to to harry truman and were pleased to be joined tonight by renowned author of Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times bestselling evan thomas who is written for and been an editor at time and newsweek has been on the programs. I wanted to get this right because theyre theyre a couple of programs here meet the press. Hes been a frequent apparent but most importantly to most of our audience is the colbert report. This is one that hes been a part of as well. So i wanted to mention that but he is coauthor with isaac. All right, excuse me, Walter Isaacson of the wise men, which is really sort of the seminal work on this era and the the men who surrounded truman who kind of brought all this this to bear and and chief among these folks are principle among them is is George Kennan, and id like to welcome evan and turn to him and ask him just kind of set us up a little bit with this long telegram busines
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