He is a vietnam veteran and a life long aficionado of books, maps, chicago sports, and music. This afternoon, he will be speaking on his latest book, the tragedy of u. S. Foreignpolicy, how americas civil religion betrayed the national interest. [applause] thank you very much. It was a wonderfully brief introduction, except you left out my doctoral dissertation. [laughter] mr. Mcdougall i thank you all. The turnout is fantastic. I will try not to let you down. , this is a homecoming, or would be, if the Woodrow Wilson center had not changed so dramatically over the years. I was a wilson fellow in the early 1980s and rose most of my pulitzer prizewinning at the wilson center. Was in those days, it the Smithsonian Castle building, presided over by jim billington, his assistant, and sam wells. Is sam wells still affiliated . Yes, he is. Mr. Mcdougall god bless him. Back in those days in the Smithsonian Castle, there was virtually no security in the building. Those were the days, right . T
The United States world war i Centennial Commission hosts a program from the National World memorial in and kansas city marking the 100th anniversary of americas entry into the war. The ceremony includes a retelling of the american debate over whether to join the global conflict. President wilson signed a declaration of war on april 6, 1917. American men and women served in uniform and more than 100,000 died. This is about one hour 45 minutes. Oh say can you see by the dawns early light athat so proudly we hailed gleaming hts last whose broad stripes and bright fightthrough the perilous oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming s red glare cket the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night there e flag was still that starspangled anner yet wave free ande land of the the brave please take your seats. April 6, 1917. Great waryears the raged across the globe, bringing death, destruction, famine, disease and displacement to peoples across europe, africa and asia. Fro
For coming. Youre watching American History tv on cspan3 every weekend during congressional breaks and on holidays too. Follow us on twitter. Like us on facebook. And find our programs and schedule on our website, cspan. Org history. Coming up next on the presidency, library and Richard Levinson confronts three myths about president s and their health. And how in other cases have saved them all without the public knowing. The central the library, part of the free library of philadelphia hosted this hourlong event. Im pleased to introduce the free librarys own dick levinson. In addition to being our speaker tonight, dick the is a librarian here in the Central Senior Services department of the library and he is really different was really his he was one of the motivators behind this expire series on president ial history. It would not have come without his effort. He has worked at the library since 2009. He conceived, promoted and hosted ava right of intellectually challenging programs f
For coming. Youre watching American History tv on cspan3 every weekend during congressional breaks and on holidays too. Follow us on twitter. Like us on facebook. And find our programs and schedule on our website, cspan. Org history. Coming up next on the presidency, library and Richard Levinson confronts three myths about president s and their health. And how in other cases have saved them all without the public knowing. The central the library, part of the free library of philadelphia hosted this hourlong event. Im pleased to introduce the free librarys own dick levinson. In addition to being our speaker tonight, dick the is a librarian here in the Central Senior Services department of the library and he is really different was really his he was one of the motivators behind this expire series on president ial history. It would not have come without his effort. He has worked at the library since 2009. He conceived, promoted and hosted ava right of intellectually challenging programs f
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