What happened with the eruption is very stable area they were trying to protect that was devastating so they had to change their strategy because the area that they wanted. What they decided to do instead, scientists at that point had a sort of experiment they worked with the association and groups that were interested in setting aside this area for the studies and that did lead the creation e creation of the National Volcanic area today so that has been protected. When you visit the monument today you can still see that area has been satisfied. Its true that there are still major threats in that area. There is a company that wants to mine on the river actually and they are allowed to do so. There are people still fighting these battles. They use it as a tree farm essentially. [inaudible] this is a question about the process of how the land comes back from this kind of devastation. What they found out is that the cost is much more random than you would think. It depends on the time of
It was the most beautiful thing that he had ever seen. So they took shelter nearby and said that the thunder was so loud and continuous they couldnt even hear each other speak. So finally he began to run up and they all began to make their way up the river. The trees are going across the trail. It had fallen across the pathway and they realized they would have to get across the for us to get back to their car. So very late in the day they knew they were never going to be able to get to the car. They actually slipped a ball that night and when they woke up the next morning they were not feeling bad. So they started making their way back and heard a helicopter overhead and saw what she was wearing and the helicopter decided that they were the last people to be rescued from around Mount Saint Helens but he didnt land in the trees because there was no place for them to land. They brought a small helicopter and it hovered over an island and the helicopter put a single one on the island and
Shows there was much more to reagan than the usual stereotypes are loaded by both democrats and republicans. So ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming jacob weisberg. [applause] thank you, bradley, for that kind introduction. I just want to say i love the bookstore, not just because i do think it helped of my last book on the bestseller list, but bradley and lisa have done an amazing job. Its one of the best independent bookstores in the country. You are lucky to have it here in washington and im lucky to be speaking here tonight. This book, it is a short book. I consider that a virtue although some biographies are often considered a virtue to be as long as possible. I had to take the opposite approach. This is really an exercise in distillation, internet figure what is essential in the Ronald Reagan story but also along the way try to take on some of these myths. The armistice on the left about reagan that i think its a myth he was a dunderhead. To our myths on the right ab
Have the values the government could support and give vietnam to form the leadership capabilities to make us do south korea just like south vietnam. They did not have it. Kennedy approved the overthrow of the ruler in 1963. The cia helped to engineer that and of course, president kennedy himself was to be assassinated himself three weeks later. So historically and early to prevent the tremendous loss of life that follows the administration of president johnson and president nixon. Bearing in mind as the americans died under nixon as did other jobs and. Johnson. So my colleague wrote the best and the brightest at the wrong place at the wrong time and i did not necessarily agree with him that but i do now but even the extended effort could have forestalled the ultimate dash a list victory which would have meant the us a promise a of vietnams at that time. That is the best i can do in the allotted time. We will wrap it up. We will be hitting around for a little while. [applause] [inaudibl
Like Lyndon Johnson but he was active in Foreign Policy debates, very active in the discussion about vietnam, algeria, the soviet union. He also did something kind of interesting. He chaired a special committee to determine the five best centers in american history. This is a committee that Lyndon Johnson created for himself, who tired of it and cant of the candidate. So in some sense this is the one project kennedy was in charge of during his Senate Career. He took it very seriously. Acquired all of the greatest historians in history in the spend some seven months digging into this, came up with a list of the five greatest centers and was something that became a part of his identity of being a young politician but also someone very steeped in american history. What came out of that . There was robert taft and robert for the to 20th century ones, but the big ones were john calhoun, daniel webster, henry clay in the precivil war era. So kennedys committee quickly decided on the top thre