Woman, leaning and kissing a woman in times square in new york on the third day. Or maybe you prefer politics. How about churchville, stalin and roosevelt a filter sitting down together. Maybe that image. Or maybe youd rather think of something from the america of that area roughly, maybe a little bit earlier, the great depression, to get an image in your mind of the great depression. If youre having trouble, think of it tired him a worried looking at another stare off into the distance with a ragamuffin child leaning on each shoulder. Can you find that famous iconic image in your mind . That image by Dorothea Lange called migrant mother that has come to symbolize the great depression. The images youve conjured up in your mind have been black and white. Very, very likely. So id like you to do the same exercise but think of japanese imprisonments. Think of the imprisonment of japanese americans during the war. So what are you picturing . Does it look like this . A bunch of young, japane
The title is taken from a quote from ulysses s. Grant. He looked back on his career, and mountain memoirs, he writes frankly about the experiences he had, the good and the bad making for good reading. What he talk about late in life was his role in the u. S. Mexico war in 1846, and grant said, you know, at the time, i do not think there was ever a more wicked war than that waged on the United States by mexico so i thought at the time as a youngster only i had not moral courage enough to resign. Grant, of course, in the war was a young lieutenant, and i found this is really moving quote, and thats why its the title. The fact of the matter is grant was not alone in thinking that the u. S. Invasion of mexico was somehow wicked. One thing that i talked about in the book and ill talk about tonight is the evolution of the American Public in the course of the u. S. Mexico war, not a long war by any means from being really enthuse yays tix and in favor of invading mexico to largely turning in
The answer was there is no plan. I blew up, not for the first or last time, and said, how can it be the head of the soviet union dies, and we have no contingency plan. It was criminal, said the president. The truth was the United States and the other western nations had very little idea of what was happening behind the iron curtain. Two years later at the first summit meeting of the cold war era at geneva in 1955, the United States still did not know who was running the soviet union. They sent four leaders, one tall white man in a white suit with a white goatee who looked like Colonel Sanders from kentucky fried chicken, clearly, a figure head. The head of the red army, ikes ally in defeating the nazis in world war ii. Eisenhower spent his son, john, to do some spying. Subdued and shaken, just whispered, things are not as they seem. President ize president eisenhower found out who was in charge on the fifth day of the conference. The big pier of the nuclear age was a surprise attack. P
Got to tell you today is one of the biggest days of voting in the 2014 election cycles. Voters heading to the polls to choose candidates with the races. David shuster joins us. This is the supertuesday of the midterm congressional election, and the closelywatched action is on the republican side where the tea party is trying to drag the g. O. P. To the right and they are focussing on november electability. Kentucky Mitch Mcconnell faces a challenge from matthew bevan, a tea party candidate. Mcconnell poured more than 10 million in the race to counter that he has not done enough to stop president obama spending. And bevan false claims made during the campaign. Mcconnell expected to be the winner, facing alison brians, setting up a race, brians versus mcconnell. Georgia it features a tea party circular firing squad. Its crowded, nasty and conservative tea party is not expected in the top three. You need to finish in the top three. They are not expected to get in the top two. The lead can
North to keep peace and order efficiently and bring peace back to the group, i exercise the rights of 2 and 4 of the marshal law act to invoke marshal law nationwide. Several more announcements by the army was made as the day unfolded giving the commanders more power. When the country is safe and peaceful then nobody will want to keep marshal law for too long. I hope all factions find a political solution soon. Theyll talk in peace. There want be talk if there is no peace. If there is still movements, provocation and instigation of violence. Three channels from followed to stop broadcasting. Dnn was one of them. When i saw the soldiers walking in as im a red shirt member and we are a station that fought for democracy, we wanted to disowe pay them. This is a law. Thats inevitable. I think we have to play by the rules and be cautious. The antigovernment protest leaders announced that his followers, the socalled yellow shirts, will continue with their protest peacefully. Reporter most peo