Initiative. We are here to talk about the events of the cold war as you experienced them. Let us start with you. When we think about the cold war the scariest moment was the cuban missile crisis in october 1962. Where were you october 1962 and talk to us about your experience with the cuban missile crisis . Fmr. Sen. Nunn stan, i was 24 years old and had been a staff lawyer on the Services Committee for three and a half or four months. My boss was john jay courtney. He had been there a long time. Terrifican with a legal ability and judgment. Due to in before he was get on an airplane with the air force and go on a trip with 10 or 12 other members, staff members, of the armed Services Committee. As well as the appropriation committee. This was a group of 45, 50yearold experienced people. Haveme in and said, sam, i got a marriage in my family. My family says i have got to go. I cannot go on this trip. Would you like to take my place . I had never been out of the country. I said, yes, sir
Household name. People know his name from public institutions, obviously from the banking legacy. Theres not a lot about him. Can you tell us about him and what you found so compelling about him as an agent and an actor within this story, this landscape that you are drawing. It. When i first started looking into this time. , i know a lot more about roosevelt did about morgan. As is probably true of most people. When i realized as i began researching is that this was really morgans world that roosevelt very kind of quickly and abruptly and welcomed in terms of wall streets point of view, treated. By the time roosevelt became president. Morgan was at the peak of his power and if he was the king of wall streets literally called zeus. On the eve of the inauguration. Roosevelt Vice President morgan had created the first billiondollar company in the world. Still with us today. As a company that employed more than any other company and control enormous amount of production. It was a huge mono
Apology. At todays rates if late feed had been amid that i would hey totaled more than 10,000. Booktv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news. You can watch all of our past programs anytime at booktv. Org. Im bill burns, im at the president of the cash anything gee Carnegie Endowment for billion and im die lighted to welcome Rebecca Lissner and mira rapphooper and their become, an open world. Recovering diplomats like me are sometimes prone to understatement, but even i can see that it its a vast understatement to say that were living through a moment of profound upheaval on both the international and landscape. Domestic landscape. The post colored world war primacy is in Rearview Mirror and the road ahead is dimly lit and domestic preoccupation its easy to lose be and to leach from restoring our uniolaugh dominance to equally ill losery idea we can disenavailable from the rest thereof he world and focus only only ourselveses but rebecca and mira have done in this n
Doing a fantastic job for the state of texas and he has from day one. And Lieutenant Governor dan patrick, another friend of mine, inc. You, dan. Thank you, dan. State attorney general ken paxton. A very aggressive attorney general, thats what we like. Youve got some very big ones, including mailin ballots, right . Unsolicited, i call them, unsolicited mailin ballots where people are sitting at home and they get hit mailin ballots all over the place. I hope you will be successful. I think it is a very important case not only here for the but the entire country. I think there are 18 of those cases throughout the country. In pennsylvania and North Carolina we have a lot of them. Thank you very much. A man who has been there when we need him and has been incredible for texas and in my friend, ted cruz. Thank you. We have spent a lot of time before and we are working to get texas everything they need. And sman brian babb babbin, a warrior and terrific guy. And where is randy . Randy weber,
All, i want to talk about that red flag warning, critical fire weather conditions for today into tomorrow morning for areas highlighted in red, the northbay mountains, and Santa Cruz Mountains under that red flag warning, gusts earlier today up to 50 to 60 Miles Per Hour in the higher elevations, and low relative humidity values, a tried cold front that kicked up winds and lowered relative humidity values, everything is just so dry, wind advisory in effect for the mountains, because of those are strong winds, could see downed trees and power lines, talking about the smoke, you can see how smoky it looks on our camera from the lake observatory, current air quality conditions tracking unhealthy error for parts of the east bay as well as for the northbay, also looking at unhealthy error over the Santa Cruz Mountains, spare the air alert in effect, record alert for the bay area, looking at the daytime highs, not quite as hot as yesterday, still warm and hot, well above average, 15 degrees