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
To begin this story, here is a portion of a 1960 u. S. Army film that gives a brief sketch of the operation. In late july, general pershing created the First United States Army under his command. And immediate steps were taken to concentrate American Forces at one point on the line. That point was saintmihiel. The germans had held an area 25 miles since early in the war. Penetrating the allied lines 16 miles, it enabled the enemy to harass operations. More than half a million first army troops assembled for the task of crushing it out of existence. 15 infantry divisions were moved into position. By the end of the day on september 11, 1918, the first army was ready for its First Independent operation against the enemy. At dawn on the 12th of september, the attack was launched. For the enemy, saintmihiel was an unpleasant surprise. Within four days, the city was obliterated and the americans were along the line. General pershing considered the victory a Birthday Gift on september 13. In
As best we can. Im going to talk to you a little bit tonight about america the ingenious. This book i wrote. The best thing about writing books is hopefully you learned something. I learned a great deal writing this. Americansof how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many of the things exploit the world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. , as i do in myy book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ass natural adventurers, risktakers and entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. I am a believer in american exceptionalism. It hasnes like to say, to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when making things when we were extracting them
Partnership with National Security advisor kissinger. Im going to share the screen so we could look at powerpoint pictures as we go through the sequence. First of all, here is president nixon himself. He had been born in 1913. He grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. To dukeated and went University Law school. This was in the worst years of the great depression. The mid1930s. During the Second World War he joined the u. S. Navy. Nixonuld see a photo of as an officer. He served with distinction in the pacific. Noncombat but as a logistics expert. Getting the right equipment to the right place at the right time. He was given a series of commendation from his commanders. He was also a very talented poker player. He had a great ability to bluff. That is a valuable quality in someone who is undertaking policy at a highlevel. In 1946 after he had been demobilized from the navy, he ran for congress. On the right, you could see a poster from his first election campaign. In 1946,
The big nominating conventions go to political history. First, the democrats name the kennedyjohnson ticket and now in chicago, the republicans, who lincoln just 100 years ago, pin their hopes on nixon and lodge. Poses withisenhower his Vice President in chicago. The illinois metropolis had given the chief executive one of the most heartwarming receptions of his career upon his arrival to address the gop convention. [applause] thank you, ike day is the theme for the thunderous welcome. The enthusiasm spills over to the convention hall, where ike and maim the old center stage, while Convention Business waits in the wings. [applause] the partisan crowd receives an accounting of the republican administrations twoterms of stewardship. Remarks concerned the issue of whether people everywhere want to live under communism, or free system. He hurls a challenge at soviet premier nikita khrushchev. This. Hallenge him to with he agreed to the holding of free elections under the sponsorship of the