Watch it live or on demand or on your smart phones or tablets. Hillary clintons historic acceptance speech on thursday night on cspan radio app and cspan. Org. Up next, captain Benjamin Griffin talks about president reagan and the soviet union moves to the diplomatic forefront. The is an hour and 40 minutes event. Now, let me introduce ben griffin who graduated in the academy of 2006 and commissioner of intelligence officer. He served while deployed in iraq in 2007 and 2008 and as an assistant in brigade in 2011. Hes currently assigned to the United States academy as a industry instructor. His military award and declarations, hes currently abd for the university of texas of austin and working on the dissertation and National Security policy of Ronald Reagan. His Research Includes grand strategi strategies, American Foreign relations and the cold war. Ben holds a bachelor of science from the United States military academy. A master of art from the university of arizona. A master of hist
Now from abc 7, live breaking news. The early indications, the initial indications is this was an intentional act. Breaking news, an explosion rocks the streets of new york city, officials there on high alert as they try to determine what happened exactly. Im eric thomas, the incident happened about five hours ago in the citys chelsea neighborhood. 26 people were injured, one seriously, make that 29. Crews are looking at possible device. Live from the news room. Lisa . Reporter eric, a scary night for new yorkers as the authorities now investigate the discovery of what may be a second explosive device a few blocks away from the original explosion site. The mayor explaining tonight, new yorkers will not be intimidated. The explosion rocked the area. It shook the ground and everyone ran out of the restaurants and the street, the whole city was in the street. And we heard a loud boom, youre in the city so were used to a lot of loud noises but all of us had the feeling that something was w
In 2006 and was commissioned as a military Intelligence Officer. He served as a squadron Intelligence Officer while deployed in iraq from 2007 to 2008 and as an assistant brigade Intelligence Officer while deployed in iraq in 2011. He is currently assigned to the United States military academy as a history instructor. His military awards and decorations include the bronze star with oak leaf cluster, the mere tore yous service medal. D he is abd from the university of texas at austin and working on a dissertation that examines the role of tom cy novels in the National Security policy of Ronald Reagan. His Research Interests include American Foreign relations and the cold war, ben hallcy, bachelor of science of u. S. History, a master of arts in interNational Security from the university of arizona, a master of history from the university of texas. In addition he is a National Security fellow at the Clements Center for National Security. He resides in west point, new york with his wife b
And had much stronger views about what should be done than and he thought that taft was just a little too much of a status quo guy. Yeah. Yes . Sometimes people think of the word pivotal as synonymous for the phrase turning point. Uhhuh. I was a little surprised you didnt mention that starting in 1932, democrats had a plurality or a majority in seven of the next nine president ial campaigns. Yeah. Starting in 1968, republicans had a plurality or a majority in five of the next six president ial campaigns. Uhhuh. And starting in 1992 democrats again had plurality or majority in five of the next six president ial campaigns. But thats not my question. My question really is, my question really is, is there something about substantial third Party Candidacies that exemplify pivotal election and should we expect this coming election will be pivotal only if there is a substantial thirdparty candidacy and probably not otherwise . Thats a thats a super question. I that is that is i hadnt thought
But if youre going to be chief executive and leader of your party, you have to take tough positions and upset people, manipulate people and ultimately that can undermine your ability to be chief of state. Now people like eisenhower came up with creative ways of solving that. But all of those roles theyre diflth to play and they often conflict. I think the constant News Coverage that we have today will bar us on what we consider a great president. If they were under the same scrutiny, these ones like fdr and others perhaps our view of them would be completely different. If we knew their faults, may we would think they arent all that great. But they had the benefit of not having that whereas now we have constant News Coverage. Yeah, matt. I think potentially the next president we have could be great in the sense that were fighting terrorism pretty seriously, especially with what recently just happened. And the idea that if a republican is elected theyre going to try to do something with