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Honored to bring you to our virtual programs that weve been able to shift to and looking forward to having you join us more in the coming weeks. Before we get to the subject of tonights program i just want to share a little bit about some things we have coming up, things to look forward to. More virtual programs you may be interested in joining us. Well be hosting next week a separate teach outcome anticorruption expert and former neck state attorney general candidate will be sharing her new book, break them up in a conversation. Hell be exploring the connection between bigmoney and its impact on democracy. That will be on august 11 the following week we will be hosting in a conversation with Jeffrey Toobin discussing rick felsons new book dragon which continues an exploration weve been doing of recent history of the Republican Party in that is on august 19. We are also proud to partner with the foundation on an upcoming series living kicking off on the 18th and moderator kel willis to
In that airplane and work. That was that. Did you this is something i asked other people about who worked on the project did you ever catch any flak afterwards . A lot of people were really upset about the atomic bomb. Did any buddy ever give you about what you did . Not too much. If you are involved like i was and they know it, they are more impressed with that. Besides, its amazing how many people havent the atomic bomb. Nagasaki, thats another time. You dont get too much of that. The thing i get mostly is what we are doing here. People ask about it. For me, theres no question about it. It was a strange series of circumstances. I was just standing at the right place at the right time every damn time, and i ended up in this thing. So. Youre watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend and on holidays to only on cspan 3. Weeknights this month were featuring American History tv programs as a preview of whats available every weekend on cspan 3. The u. S. Capital has been home
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