By con batting and with words. I am mike nelson, im the guy you had to put up with during first panel. Fortunately we have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you have heard from the scholars who are on the first panel. Weve got miller saturday, people here one of its main emphases is to focus on studying the presidency indepth, historical depth, with objectivity, and other words we are all in the business of doing stuff that and editorial cartoonist is not in the business of doing which is reacting to events on a day to day basis more than 10,000 times in his 60 plus years as a newspaper cartoonist, and where we all strived to be as objective as we can, the job of the editorial cartoonist as well as anybody whos ever done, it to provide comments, opinion, something to provoke discussion, rather than aspire to subtle discussion. The panel today, this afternoon, which will cover the president s from george bush i dont use the h. W. He was george bush when he
With whom olyphant was able to. Estow his gift on a country who is able to combat his gift visually with president s. I am mike nelson. I am the guy you put up with during the first panel. We have a new cast of people to add their voices to the wonderful voices you heard from the scholars who are on the first panel. Once again, we have Miller Center people here. The Miller Center, one of its main emphasis is studying the presidency indepth, historical depth, with objectivity. We are in the business of doing stuff that editorial cartoonists are not in the business of doing , reacting to events on a as a newspapers cartoonist. We all strive to be as objective as we can. Provide comment, to provide opinion and something to provoke discussion, rather than aspire to settle discussion. The panel this afternoon will cover the president s from george bush i do not use the h w. He was george bush when he was president. When John Quincy Adams became president , john adams did not have to change
Great assassinations with one not so great assassination. It wont matter that castro is still alive, because we plan these back in october. In cap changed a little bit things have changed a little bit, but the basic idea behind this is killing fidel, or not killing fidel. For a lot of younger people, mystique of fidel castro is not as wellknown as it would be for other generations. He had not been in charge for a wild. He was not this mean ogre of a person who was leaving cuba. He was for a lot of people that remember the cold war. A lot of people that lived through that time. Castro was somewhat of a caricature of himself at the end. I love this cartoon. Out thet really spelled end of castros career when he had been retired. [laughter] mr. Houghton so when he died, it was a big deal a lot of places. Many college aged students were like, ok. A wholey did not matter lot when it came to the relationship between the united or the broader, world. We will talk differently here. Attemptsook
Cohosted by the Smithsonian Associates and the International Spy museum in washington, d. C. Good morning, everyone. It is a good morning. It is a great day. After that, i think it goes downhill. Irc executive director. We are delighted to have all of you here with us. Let us look again thank the smithsonian volunteers for being with us for this event. Toyou would be kind enough turn off your cellphones and so forth. As a c. I. A. Officer who went through the church pike hearings , part of which will be discussed today by vince , attempted assassinations, none of which succeeded, which reflects incompetence or a lack of commitment. Charges almosthe seem quaint because today there is little hesitation by successive administrations of both parties in knocking off the heads of terrorist groups and the leaders right and left. As you know, on a couple of occasions, taking out an american citizen. Looking back on that, it almost seems quaint. However, it will be fun to revisit with my collea
Course, part of which will be discussed today by vince. The attempted assassinations, none of which succeeded which reflects a lack of confidence, we will hear about today. Looking back at that time, the charges almost seemed quite quaint. There is very little success in knocking off these leaders right and left. As you know, at least on a couple of occasions, taking out an american citizen. Looking back at that time it almost seems quaint. It will be fun to revisit with my colleague who has a phd from the university of maryland and democrat diplomatic in American History. Areareas of Research Scientific and technological issues during world war ii and the early part of the cold war. He also got a masters in relations between the soviet union and the United States. You might get questions on the that. That is a lively topic. I should also say that he has taught extensively at the university level, high school level, and will School Middle school. I would think middle school would be th