Two historians talk about world war ii in a program titled supremacy of the skies. Donald miller discusses the Strategic Bombing of germany, followed by conrad crane who focuses on air power during the dday invasion of normandy. This is part of the world war ii annual conference. Our final panel, for what has been a great day and is only going to get better, is supremacy in the skies, allied air domination in europe. Panel, i have to say i feel a certain sigh of relief i am no longer the only world war i guy here, but a gentleman for whom i have tremendous respect, personally and for his scholarship, dr. John mauro. Has really become a pillar in the faculty at the university of georgia, and in the field of military history more widely although of course he and i share a great interest in the First World War and have both done work in that era. Not limited to world war i as you can see today but world war ii and to other conflicts in American Military history. Month, ther this Pritzker
All right cool, thank you for coming out today, thank you to alexandria for hosting and helping set up, for the happy hour after this boy, so we will get we were looking for two afterwards, this is the first inaugural war symposium, so we think cspan hopefully will be an annual event so keep your eyes out for next year symposium, keep up with emerging revolutions, summit and you can also follow us on facebook, twitter to find everything we are up to you and you could also check out our books, robin phil wrote a book and i am myself wrote a book. I have a couple of books coming out data. So keep up with us, you know im really glad that boy we had the inaugural symposium. But it is also George Washingtons hometown and you can go to cities, in new york, philadelphia, charleston everywhere you go there are plaques and monuments, George Washington sub tier, he spent a couple couple hours here, he spent more honest and getting his suits here walking the streets, russia being here so its real
Tonights program is exciting. We are honored to partner with our good friends at the Richard Nixon foundation. I would like to welcome dr. Jim cavanaugh, the chairman of the board of the nixon foundation, his wife, esther, in the front row. [applause] q, the president of the nixon foundation, who you will hear from in a few moments. We have many distinguished guests, many former officials from the nixon and other administrations and staff and friends of the nixon foundation. We are honored to have you here tonight. This year marks the 50th anniversary of Patricia Nixon becoming first lady of the u. S. Under her leadership, the white house collection added over 600 paintings and furnishing elements to the white house collection, which is the most of any presidency. The significance of this will be discussed in tonights program but it is important to us at the White House Historical association, as a core part of our mission, which was inspired, as most of you or all of you know by first
Interacted with his contemporaries, how he viewed himself, and how we remember him today. Professor smith today, what we are planning to do is spend a little time talking about George Washington and the character he developed over a lifetime. If you think about what we have done for the duration of this course, we brought him into the story intermittently throughout, whether it is talking about individual bibles or how he organized men or how he recruited men to get them to stay in the service. One of the things i try to get across whenever i talk about washington is that washington is a bit of an enigma to the modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he looked. When i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians around the country rank our president. Who knows how current president is going to rank. Nonetheless. Whenever those rankings come out, these t
The book in the name of god the khomeini decade, how much influence do you think the iran relationship with this country has had on this country in the last 10 years . Robin oh, i think its had not only an Immediate Impact of the trauma of the hostage ordeal the impact of the confrontation between the u. S. And iran in the persian gulf, the shooting down of the iranian aircraft i think its had a much broader impact, and that is it, along with vietnam, proved that the United States was not invincible; was, indeed, very vulnerable, and that third world powers could not only stand up to us and defy us, but occasionally could even defeat us. And so i think its had an impact on our National Psyche and on our policymaking apparatus. Brian did they laugh at us behind the scenes over there . Robin no. I think theyve always been a little bit frightened of us. Theyve always given us credit for having more power and more planning, more conspiracies than we deserve. I think that they were proud an