I am marc selverstone. Associate professor in president ial studies at the university of virginias Miller Center, and as chair of the centers president ial recordings program, id like to welcome you to a special panel, echoing the echoes of the past, featuring my colleagues on the recordings program. Its quite wonderful to be here with everybody. Something of a reunion. Kent was with us for years and years, now spending time at the university of South Carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well look to explore dynamics therein, but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program. We were established in 1998, and our goal, we are the only institution of this kind doing it, is to analyze and transcribe the
And so eventually in 18 years later you are released. What was that like to leave prison after 19 years to walk out of that jail . I walked out one day after my 30th birthday. While i absolutely loved walking out of prison, i realized we were in a lot of trouble with men and women coming home because we were not prepared so i had to learn a lot of stuff very quickly and fortunately i am relatively smart but the scary part i know one of the men and women who are incarcerated have third grade skills and that is scary when you think about that. Host just to correct one thing you are brilliant use secure relatively smart but you are brilliant not just intellectually but spiritually. To evolve the way that you have one of concern that people have as we think about as people are on board but the ways to do things differently are also those who are risk for violence or those who commit violent crimes. Yes. Politicians for decades have used your based to control the minds of american citizens.
A graduate at west point, vietnam veteran, served in our armed forces for over 23 years and now he is Professor Emeritus remarkable author. Some of his titles, limits of power, washington rules and breach of trust, but we are here today to talk about this book, americas war for the greater middle east a military history that just came out a few weeks ago and i think you will see during our discussion and after we talked for a bit we went to invite you to ask questions and why this is a book that everyone of us should read. Lets go head and start. I had been out of the army longer than i have been in it. [laughter] we dont think you have your microphone on cnet well, i think they are on because anyway, call me andrew. All right. Its been over 35 years since president carter outlined in 1980, what became known as the Carter Doctrine, a strategy as you point out again in a sense as a militarization of the middle east and you cite that as the turning points. Described for us because i see
Nixon. Tonight, the candidacy and legacy of George Mcgovern. We are live from the mcgovern museum in mitchell, south dakota. Joining us from there is president ial author scott farris. It was 2 30 when he delivered the acceptance speech in miami. Why . Scott thank you, greta. I think it was because of the structure of the Mcgovern Campaign. He was running against the establishment. So it occurred to senator mcgovern, he was very, very strong on the issue of vietnam. One of the things that has drawn me to writing about senator as one of the most influential who ran for the presidency who was not successful, he went after the vietnam issue. He spoke about that war in ways no president ial candidate had ever spoken about war before. It was language as you heard that was mild compared to what i have heard it was strong , language that unsettled lots of americans and caused them to worry about how he would win the war. It was an insurgent campaign to end the war against the established demo
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