Russian danger is therefore our danger and the danger of the United States. 2 days later you as president roosevelt also gives a speech supporting the ussr. Ringback but there are other Political Forces in the United States territory makes his speech in december of 41. And the senate is as if the russians are when he wishes to port the germans at the germans, or when we support the russians. And that way, let them destroy each other. There was that kind of sentiment in the west at this time. Dangerous destructive, roosevelt wound stanolin of japans intention to attack the soviet union. But soviet intelligence reports, thank the via tank is still in doubt. Its imperative that the u. S. Makes it clear to japan that if they attack the soviet union will have support but the british and american authorities will not support the usaa. The u. S. Military assures roosevelt that germany law quickly conquer rachelle on the way to the europe church. You recall that 4 out of 5 war to mom and exper
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Gleaming pink, starkness, he gave the president a full shot, frontal shot. The president was embarrassed and started to back out. Think nothing of it, thundered churchill. The Prime Minister has nothing to hide, from the president of the United States. Hopkins, whether true or not, some say its not, hopkins behind out on that story for years. He was a gambler on horses and cars, even the time of day. Married three times, between the second and third marriages, he dated glamorous womenhave movie stars like paulette goddard, actress dorothy hale, who actually she jumped from her apartment in new york to her death, allegedly because she had been jilted by Harry Hopkins. The former paris editor of the harpers bazaar, who he married actually on the second floor of the white house the summer of 1942. He regarded money, his own and other peoples as something to be spent as quickly as possible. To put people into two categories. Talkers and doers. And harry was definitely a do or. So the hopki
Send an email at book tv at mix cspan. Org or twitter of kong book tv. Now one book tv, sarah gordon talks about religious cases that have transformed the wall in country in the limited protection to the constitution. This interview part of booktv college ceres was recorded at the university of pennsylvania in philadelphia. Its about 20 minutes. University of pennsylvania professor the spirit of law is the most recent book what you mean when you talk about the old constitutional world. Estimate for most of the nations history it was the states rather than the federal government that controlled access to more than just worship, the right of religious organizations and so on and in the early decades of the 20th century that began to shift as the Supreme Court applied the National Constitution a stubble should and the exercise clause of the First Amendment against the states, centralizing the debate about religion. Still give the states have the control we have it written into the constit