Tv, all weekend every weekend on cspan3. Coming up next on American History tv, former journalist and Kennedy School professor examines president ial decisionmaking in the postvietnam era. He discusses military complex as well is declared wars, including the wars in iraq and afghanistan. The National Press club hosted this event. It is about an hour and 15 minutes. Good evening. Welcome to the National Plus club. I am the clubs 107th president. It is my honor to welcome all of you here this evening and those watching via cspan as part of this American History series. For a discussion about the impact of vietnam war has had on president ial decisionmaking over the past five decades. We could not have a more appropriate guest of honor tonight than marvin kalb, the Award Winning journalist for cbs and nbc news. He was last news man recruited by Edward R Murrow to join cbs news, becoming part of the generation known as the murrow boys. For the mass 20 years, he has the kalb moderator of re
The u. S. , and the soviet union joined the occupied korea. They agreed to divide korea. Not northern korea what we call today to north korea was a very much communist influence. Southern influence, we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the un they sponsored elections in south korea and south koreans elected a democratic government. North korea however wanted to unite under its terms so it sent insurgents into south korea to try to overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then, on january 1950 the u. S. Secretary of state dean acheson had very significant air in a speech talking about the areas of influence and positions that were vital to the United States interest. Imagine japan and the philippines and omitted south korea. The North Koreans interpreted that as a statement the u. S. Would not go to war to defend the south korea. So in june of 1950, armed with soviet equipment and aided by the chinese the north korea invaded south kor
Today im going to talk about the korean war. Were going to cyprus Civil Military relations for the last time i met we talked about the cold war and the development of containment. Korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony in japan since 1910. During the Second World War there was fighting in korea, the u. S. , and the soviet union joined the occupied korea. They agreed to divide korea. Not northern korea what we call today to north korea was a very much communist influence. Southern influence, we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the un they sponsored elections in south korea and south koreans elected a democratic government. North korea however wanted to unite under its terms so it sent insurgents into south korea to try to overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then, on january 1950 the u. S. Secretary of state dean acheson had very significant air in a speech talking about the areas of influence and positions t
Today im going to talk about the korean war. Were going to cyprus Civil Military relations for the last time i met we talked about the cold war and the development of containment. Korea was an unusual situation in that it had been a colony in japan since 1910. During the Second World War there was fighting in korea, the u. S. , and the soviet union joined the occupied korea. They agreed to divide korea. Not northern korea what we call today to north korea was a very much communist influence. Southern influence, we now call south korea was a very different situation. With the assistance of the un they sponsored elections in south korea and south koreans elected a democratic government. North korea however wanted to unite under its terms so it sent insurgents into south korea to try to overthrow that government and they failed to do so. Then, on january 1950 the u. S. Secretary of state dean acheson had very significant air in a speech talking about the areas of influence and positions t
It was closer to noon. Ainsley everybody together . Steve yes. Ainsley how about you, brian . Brian chris had a game. 8 hour trip on mothers day when everyone choosing to drive. Thanks to the planet for i raining to be religionly. Steve that was in the northeast i was down south and it was a beautiful day. Brian that would have been the place to be. When we started this show we were playing panic at the disco. We have a different kind of panic. Its called a crisis, constitutional crisis according to some democrats. Ainsley remember democrats wouldnt say crisis at the border. Manufactured crisis. They have been screaming crisis after what happened with william barr when he when they voted to hold him in contempt. Steve we want a clean copy of the Mueller Report. We dont want anything sharpied out. We want to see the whole thing. Ainsley the sound bite yesterday on all the sunday show from the democrats constitutional crisis. Listen. We are looking at a crisis. Not only of confidence but