kate: good evening and welcome to hillwood estate, museum and gardens. i know many of you know already, but in case we have not met, my name is kate markert, and i am the executive director here. i want to thank you in joining us tonight as we welcome back douglas smith, longtime friend of hillwood and author of the book the russian job: the forgotten story of how america saved the soviet union from ruin. you may have noticed that the theater looks just a little bit different tonight. i am very pleased to welcome c-span. while this is their very first time in hillwood, it is not the first time that our lectures are accessible to folks at home. many of our fantastic programs are available on the hillwood museum youtube channel, so check that out in case you missed something or want to see something again. before we continue, i know you know what i am going to say next please be sure that you have silenced anything that chirps or barks or beeps. you may know that hillwood s
his personality, you re going to get worse and be fighting the whole world. actually it was my personality that made people not want to fight. first time in 70 years this has happened, we started no wards and we finished some, we defeated the ices caliphate100%. they gave a lot of our military away to afghanistan, now one of the largest exporters of military arms, they sell the things we gave to them. $85 billion. many soldiers horrifically wounded and we left many americans behind. they moved at the military first, it s supposed to be the opposite, you move out the military last. thwarting the will of the american people,, not even believable. a witch scam, hoax. it s called election interference and they are doing the best they can with it because who the hell would vote for them with the policies they have of open borders and no voter id. the report shows lay spied on my campaign. imagine if it was the other way around. they spied on my campaign and we caught them, they fo
while this is their very first time in hillwood, it is not the first time that our lectures are accessible to folks at home. many of our fantastic programs are available on the hillwood museum youtube channel, so check that out in case you missed something or want to see something again. before we continue, i know you know what i am going to say next please be sure that you have silenced anything that chirps or barks or beeps. you may know that hillwood s founder, marjorie post, began her russian collection while she was posted to soviet era moscow in 1937, 1938. over the next 30 years, she was dedicated to building the most comprehensive collection of russian imperial art outside of russia. she realized, as the collection grew, that her personal passion could inspire and educate the public and made plans for hillwood to become a museum. post s lasting legacies, generosity. public service, family, and lush gardens, as well as the new biography, marjorie merriweather post:
the soviet union led to the icy relations with the u.s. in the cold war. the purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the western hemisphere. reporter: while his allies agreed to remove their missiles, castro s animosity towards the u.s. survived. in 1999, the custody battle over elian gonzalez playing out as castro demanded the his mother had drowned while escaping with him to the u.s. armed u.s. agents forcibly removing the boy from his miami relatives, returning him to his father in cuba. and there is guantanamo bay, the naval base leased by the u.s. from the casino toe regime since 1959 after the controversial practice of housing terror suspects, castro repeatedly denounced the u.s. being used to do america s dirty work. ten american presidents tried to isolate castro and hope for his demise. then in 2013, this defining moment, president obama shaking hands with president raul castro at nelson mandela s funeral, pavi
As cruise lines pack their ever-larger ships with water parks and basketball courts, the 136-passenger Sea Cloud Spirit, with its old-fashioned clipper design and wooden decks, stands out.