National security staff in 1969 and traveled the world on every major Diplomatic Initiative in the midst of the vietnam war and greater cold war. He was with dr. Kissinger with negotiators in paris that culminated in the paris peace accords. He was with president nixon in moscow during his first in 1972 and heip 1973 yom after the kippur war. He was a key actor in the historic trip to china in 1972 known popularly as the week that changed the world. Severalto hold positions. From 2015 to 2016 he conducted oral histories with dr. Kissinger on behalf of the Nixon Foundation. The collection of interviews cover a variety of subject matter. Be readussia, and can in this book called kissinger on kissinger reflections of diplomacy, grand, strategy, and leadership. It is available for purchase in our museum store and mr. Lord will sign copies. Ambassador lord will be interviewed by dr. Frank gh gannon. He worked with Randolph Churchill to write the biography of his father, instant churchill. H
So leaders had a much Better Direct sense of what the people actually thought. You can see a lot of polling data in this and in flushing out exactly what it was americans thought. I will focus a lot on Public Opinion and then we will talk about policy as a reflection of Public Opinion. At the start of the war in europe, my argument is there were two basic positions held almost unanimously by the American People. They wanted britain and france to win the war, to defeat germany, and they did not want the United States to have to fight in that war to make it happen. Over the course of the two plus years of this debate, nothing that happened really change fundamentally, those two points of view. There will be changes in American Opinion, but those two fundamental views remain the same. Even on the eve of pearl harbor, most Americans Still wanted to avoid direct american involvement as a belligerent in world war ii. The great debate moved the American Public in the direction of risking war,
Mr. Chairman. My fellow americans. My fellow democrats, i proudly accept the nomination of our party. [cheers and applause] this moment, this moment is one of personal pride and gratification, yet one cannot help but reflect the deep sadness we feel over the troubles and the violence which have erupted, regrettably and tragically, in the streets of this great city and for the personal injuries which have occurred. [applause] that is neubert humphrey accepting the democratic nomination for president at chicagos Conrad Hilton hotel, or democrats have gathered for their convention in the midst of the vietnam war while thousands of protesters demonstrated outside. Hubert humphrey, longtime senator and unsuccessful candidate for president , is the focus of this weeks contenders program. We are live from minnesotas history center. The documentarian of Hubert Humphreys life just finished the documentary last year. We are standing in the center of an exhibit about 1968. To start our discussion
Space here. Today, we are going to talk about american women in world war ii. And this is, obviously, a huge talker. We could spend an entire semester just on this topic alone. We will try to break it down to three different spaces, and we will look at a lot of images to kind of fit into the other things that weve talked about. So, we are going to talk about american women in three ways. We are going to talk about women at home, okay . Women at work. And women at war. Do so, we are going to kind of organize our ideas this way. We are going to look at a lot of the propaganda weve been talking about propaganda throughout the semester, and watching videos and things like that. We will get a chance to talk about everybody found that to be okay . The all right. Its a good one on women at work during world war ii, you can find it on the National Archives of sight, right . But we will talk about that in this portion, and we will talk about these different parts of women during american women
Referred to as a liberal consensus of the 19 forties and 19 fifties. And try to work through it actually is happening in terms of the kind of main fear of american politics. The possibilities, the political actions and in the way people are thinking about politics and the american forties and fifties. Yet three readings, all of which, in different ways, deal with the kind of idea of political ideology, and all of which share a set of assumptions about the way that ideas matter to politics. So, we will sort of be thinking, today, about how the kind of from those ideas, and this is a kind of transition classes were removed from discussing the geopolitics of the cold war, and the red scare, into discussing sort of, what else is happening in america in the 1940s, and 19 fifties. So, should we start with daniel bell . Everybodys favorite reading from today. I assume there are very few questions about this one . Yeah . So, is he, essentially, saying that, like, the political ideologies you c