Next, on lectures in history. University of North Carolina at chapel hill Professor Joseph glathaar. Removal from command by president truman and civil relations. His class is about an hour. Today, im going to talk about the korean war. Were going to talk a little bit about Civil Military relations. Last time we met we talked about the cold war and the development of containment. Korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony of japans since 1910, during the Second World War there was fighting in korea, the u. S. And the soviet union jointly occupied korea and they agreed to divide korea. Now, northern korea, that is what we call today north korea was very much communist influenced. Southern korea, which we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the u. N. They sponsored elections in south korea and South Koreans elected a democratic government. North korea, however, wanted to unite under its terms and so it sent insurgents into south ko
Our way towards the 1960s and the cultural revolution. Since historians have recently paid more attention to the ways in which whats often recorded as the 60s cultural revolution really had its seeds planted in the 1950s. So i wanted to describe what the old culture was like. Sometimes referred to as victorian, sort of the shared Anglo American culture of the 19th and into the 20th centuries. The little piece that i gave you from william oneills book on america 1945, sort of describes some of the cultural assumptions of americans of this generation. And in a way, victorianism, which today is considered, you know, conservative. In ways, its a derogatory term, puritanical, oldfashioned and retrograde, but much like liberalism, victorianism was actually liberal in its day. In the 19th century, it was an advance upon earlier, premodern cultural patterns, much as liberalism in the 19th century was sort of a progressive, new thing, and the principles of classical liberalism of the 19th centu
Campaign was was im at my heart a Public Servant and i just felt given the hateful rhetoric that was going on in the 2016 campaign and the dysfunction of government that was causing so much angst in the citizenship, it was the dysfunction of government was manifesting itself in many ways and later on on torp of that the pulse nightclub shooting happened in my district. I felt if you wanted to change washington you had to change the type of people your sending there and i decided to get into the race to run a fourmonth campaign against a 24year incumbent. And with that running against a southbound opponent like that, who did you turn to for advice, for counsel, and did you feel a little daunted about this task you were about to undertake . Sure. I have never run for anything in my life not even student government, so this was my first time into politics. I was very lucky to have staff that a Campaign Manager and other members of my staff that had been seasoned hands in politics and they
Campaign was was im at my heart a Public Servant and i just felt given the hateful rhetoric that was going on in the 2016 campaign and the dysfunction of government that was causing so much angst in the citizenship, it was the dysfunction of government was manifesting itself in many ways and later on on torp of that the pulse nightclub shooting happened in my district. I felt if you wanted to change washington you had to change the type of people your sending there and i decided to get into the race to run a fourmonth campaign against a 24year incumbent. And with that running against a southbound opponent like that, who did you turn to for advice, for counsel, and did you feel a little daunted about this task you were about to undertake . Sure. I have never run for anything in my life not even student government, so this was my first time into politics. I was very lucky to have staff that a Campaign Manager and other members of my staff that had been seasoned hands in politics and they
Form including islamist terrorism. What we try tried to do in this committee is through this hearing process layout a reality. I come from a manufacturing background. Salt a lot of problems. The only way to solve a problem is first admit you have one properly define it, properly describe it, gather the information and admit to the reality. There is no way anybody can deny we have a problem worldwide in terms of extremism and violence. We witness it just a few hours ago on a practice field for a Charity Baseball event. Let me acknowledge first of all our prayers are with those victims, congressman scalise, the staff member and the two members of the capitol Hill Security team that were worded and even having been wounded they continue to to return fire and prevented a far greater tragedy. The appreciation we owe to the men and women in Public Safety that every day they step out of the threshold of their door they literally put their lives on the line. They demonstrated it again this mor