Thanks so much for coming. It seems particularly appropriate given the subject of todays lecture to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is, if there is anything that can depress the turnout for a lecture, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you, you are in for a treat this evening. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the clement center. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially for those people who have coordinated all of the logistics. During my first semester at the clement center, we received an anonymous 500,000 gift in ho
Rich and deep history, the conditions are optimal for inventing president ial and first lady laura and legend, but as we see with the gilbert story, for example, history is often, gated and complex often complicated and complex. This and otherh programs on her website, where all of our video is archived. The cspan cities to her is exploring the american story as we take book to be an American History to be on the road. With support from our spectrum cable partners, this weekend we travel to san antonio, texas. Experienceur we will the history of the history of this southwest texas city. The san with a visit to antonio mission historical park. Following that in 20 minutes we hear about the role the city played in early military aviation. Visit one of the citys most recognizable features, the historic riverwalk. Later, a trip to the Spanish Governors Palace, one of the oldest old dings in the city, dating to the founding. We begin our feature at mission four colonialof Spanish Missions i
So lets go back to that breaking news out of riyadh the saudi capital according to media reports Saudi Crown Prince mohammed bin sound detained some the most high profile members of the rule family they include former crown Prince Mohammed bin nayef as well as prince ahmed bin abdulaziz outside the younger brother of the saudi king reports suggest theyve both been accused of treason saudi guards have also arrested one of mom had been knifed brothers theyre now likely under the threat of life imprisonment or possible execution both could have rival the crown Prince Mohammed bin sound man to the throne if king solomon were to die it lets bring in jamal and sally johns is live on set jamal so what do you think has prompted this move by the Saudi Crown Prince mom been psalm on how significant is it in terms of significance that we can say with 100 percent confidence its huge because of the positioning of these 2 figures within the royal family their seniority both in terms of lineage but a
Broadcasting live from our studios in Moscow International im sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us. The u. S. Secretary of state has painted the assassination of irans top general money as part of a Bigger Campaign of deterrence he says it will also be applied to russia and china. Picks up the story for us. Mike pompei oh the u. S. Secretary of state seems to be highlighting the term deterrence as the new buzz word defining u. S. Foreign policy reestablishing deterrence real deterrence military deterrence deterrence is hard to establish an easy to lose now the killing of a top foreign general by the United States in a different country is considered now to be an act of deterrence intended to deter behavior on the part of the country or entity that was attacked theres no terrorist except Osama Bin Laden who has more american blood on his hands than did customs of the money but i want to lay this out in context of what weve been trying to do theres a bigger strategy a strategy
News outlets into spreading anti soviet propaganda during the cold war. Are broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our chief international and sean thomas certainly glad to have you with us now the u. S. Secretary of state has painted the assassination of irans top general custom sort of money as part of a Bigger Campaign of deterrence he said wall so be applied to russia and china and comments. Mike pompei oh the u. S. Secretary of state seems to be highlighting the term deterrents as the new buzz word defining u. S. Foreign policy reestablishing deterrence real deterrence military deterrence deterrence is hard to establish an easy to loose now the killing of a top foreign general by the United States in a different country is considered now to be an act of deterrence intended to deter behavior on the part of the country or entity that was attacked there is no terrorist except Osama Bin Laden who has more american blood on his hands than did customs of the money b