And grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. He went to the local college, whittier college. And went to Duke University law school in the worst years of the great depression. The second world war, he joined the u. S. Navy. You can see the photo of nixon as a young navy officer. He served with distinction in the pacific, getting the right equipment to the right place at the right time and was given a series of commendations by his commanders. He was also a very talented offr player turn on his hours and he had a great ability to bluff. That is a valuable quality and someone undertaking Foreign Policy at a high level. Been46 after he had demobilized from the navy, nixon ran for congress. You can see the poster from his first election campaign. Ii veteransld war were elected into congress and the senate. Was nixon, one was john f. Kennedy. One was joe mccarthy. Career,arly political nixon rose very rapidly through the ranks. He was an odd anticommunist. He worked very hard to
Reporter neil, good afternoon to you. Start with astrazeneca. That is the top headline. It is covid19 vaccine as you mentioned having a good immune response in older results this is a phase two trial. Heefficacy will not be done untl they resume phase three trials you mentioned pfizer around biontech, they will file for their emergency approval with the fda form for the covid19 that tells us they are on track for the timeline they promised. Johnson johnson ready to have its vaccine ready for approval by february of 2021. Like i said, a bunch of different choices here. New york city in a little worse shape. Public School System is shutting down as of today. The stiffs Public Schools are taking a break, excuse me, because the coronavirus test Positivity Rate of 3 has been at that level for a seven day rolling average. It was reached on wednesday. The decision impacts over a Million Students and their parents and the city is trying to manage these cases and the weight that is placed on th
Riddled with corruption. But critics trying to hold the powerful to account fear, they will soon be silenced. And chinas unmanned spacecraft rockets to the moon with a mission to bring back lunar rock samples. And after the ports china firmly on the map off spacefaring nations im gathered as well come to the program. 3 weeks after the u. S. Election, president elect joe biden has finally been given the green light to start the transition process. President on a trump tweeted tuesday that he was directing his administration to cooperate in the handover process. Its the closest hes come to conceding defeat. Meanwhile, biden has pushed ahead and begun announcing nominations for his own up ministration. President elect joe biden efficiently revealed his picks for the top positions of his cabinet, monday, signaling his readiness to take over the helm, bidens Foreign Policy and National Security choices. Mark a clear shift away from trumps america 1st doctrine. Instead, a lot of familiar fac
Conservative south korea. Choosing to become morticians. Welcome to do that you could join us. China launched a rocket today to the moon seeking to bring samples of new no rocks and dust back to the john 5 name for the ancient chinese moon goddess. Took off successfully from china. Its the 1st mission in 4 decades. And if successful, it would make china only the 3rd country to bring back samples from the morning after the u. S. And the former soviet union. And for more on this launch, im joined by mark mccall cohen, Senior Advisor for science, an exploration of the European Space agency. Mark, welcome rocks have been brought back from the moon before all. What is the scientific importance of this mission . Well, as you know, the Apollo Missions and also soviet Unmanned Missions brought back rocks in the sixtys and seventys. But the Chinese Mission is going is actually interesting. Its a much younger region of the moon than the Previous Missions have been to the top of a volcano, a very
Believing in Multilateral International organizations, the kind of International Order that the europeans would like to retain. But i think in europe, many people have believed that this election was really open. Many were afraid think that the polarization and the infighting between trump and biden, and the insistence of the trial team that he has won the election well, actually result in 2 more protests, damage the american democracy that isnt possibly not as likely as before. Nobody has considered the transition, but recently, weve heard a lot about how europe needs to do more on the global stage, but it could it now be just as easy for the u. S. The e. U. To sit back and wait for the u. S. To take the lead again. I think this is, this is no longer the case and people in europe have understood that america might be a great partner where the president wants it, but this is not a really, really reliable option to bank on i think the europeans have understood that they must do more if