In the fall of the berlin wall im joined by my guest John Laughlin in paris he is a political scientist and historian in washington we have harold james hes a professor of history and International Affairs at Princeton University as well as author and editor of a number of books including when the wall came down reactions to german unification and in cork we cross to Geoffrey Roberts he is emeritus professor of history at University College cork and a member of the Royal Irish Academy all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated let me go to john and paris 1st i mean 30 its been 30 years now believe it or not because i remember it so vividly when it happened a few months before i had been living in poland for a number of years and an avid student of Eastern European communist affairs at the time john 30 years on what is its meaning because i look at cursory reviews of you know that and commenting on it. It is the pe
The book in the name of god the khomeini decade, how much influence do you think the iran relationship with this country has had on this country in the last 10 years . Robin oh, i think its had not only an Immediate Impact of the trauma of the hostage ordeal the impact of the confrontation between the u. S. And iran in the persian gulf, the shooting down of the iranian aircraft i think its had a much broader impact, and that is it, along with vietnam, proved that the United States was not invincible; was, indeed, very vulnerable, and that third world powers could not only stand up to us and defy us, but occasionally could even defeat us. And so i think its had an impact on our National Psyche and on our policymaking apparatus. Brian did they laugh at us behind the scenes over there . Robin no. I think theyve always been a little bit frightened of us. Theyve always given us credit for having more power and more planning, more conspiracies than we deserve. I think that they were proud an
So you would think again with reagan being in hollywood as an actor and john kennedy going to hollywood all the time to hang out with the stars jack kennedy once went to hollywood after world war ii and spent a month there living with broad robert staff trying to figure out what gave movie stars charisma so he could mimic that. He went to gary cooper said in huge said this guy is the most job dropping warring person ive ever met that we go outside of the restaurant and he is mobbed. I dont get it. They were also the two most popular speakers in america in the 1950s. Kennedy had made a big splash running for president and got hundreds of speaking invitations every week and reagan gave more speeches. He was the official corporate spokesperson for General Electric and later death valley days and his job was to tour the country giving speeches on electric appliances. He did that thousands of times. He estimated he gave a speech eight or 9000 times. And yet they kept crossing the country an
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