The 37th president s administration. This portion is about one hour 20 minutes. Right from the beginning and until late in 1971 for a couple of years, i always thought for the pentagon papers to have any effect, they should be the basis for congressional hearing. Precisely because i knew they did not tell the whole story for an adequate story. I knew a lot of what was excluded from them and what you needed was oral testimony preferably under oath. Of people who really knew the decisionmaking at the time and could explain what was the implications of these papers. When things were written down, it was a brief for mcnamara to argue with other people to present mcnamaras preferred policy. It did not usually express what mcnaughton thought was appropriate policy or what he thought to expect work for considerations. He was writing lawyers briefs for mcnamara to present. That was one example. I knew in many other cases that it did not answer many of the questions. What you wanted was testimo
Moment. Welcome. I am mark rosella the International Affairs here at George Mason University and we are delighted to have mark bone here to do a presentation based on his latest book which i had the pleasure to read in draft form and we talked about it at length. It is excellent work. I am thrilled that he is here to make a presentation based on the research he has done in his six years as does well in the situation room at the white house. I am first going to introduce my colleague, the director of our center for politics and Foreign Relations than he is going to make the formal introduction or speaker. I teach a class on the presidency from jfk to obama, so im going to use this for my next few classes. What i like about this book presidency in crisis from truman to obama is that at the end of each crisis or decisionmaking problem in the white house from truman through obama, he does an assessment which gives it an interesting background. You see what jfk did their in decisionmaking d
Join the cspan conversation like us on facebook, follow us on twitter Andrew O Shaughnessy takes a look at the role British Military leaders played in the American Revolutionary war. Most notably, he discusses general Henry Clinton who served briefly as commanderinchief of the british army. His defeat at the battle of Sullivans Island in january, 1776 marked the first time during the war that american troops successfully defended against a british sea and land invasion. This event from the New York Historical society is about one hour and a half. Thank you very much, i am very grateful to gregory and alex castle who did the logistical arrangements to be invited to the New York Historical society. This is a wonderful collection one of the great historical societies, one of the organizations that ive enjoyed a relationship with in the last 15 or so years thanks largely to you and trustees and former trustees like digg guilder. It has been wonderful to watch just how much it has progresse
To move to the cloud. As a result, even civilian agencies are turning to cloud services. Monday night at in iraq eastern on the communicators on cspan 2. You are watching American History tv weekend, every weekend on cspan 3. To join the conversation, like a fun facebook. Each week, American History tvs real america brings you archival films that tell the story of 20th century america. Planes lineup to take part in the greatest error invasion in history. Americans, british, and canadians make up this army crossing the rhine in the north. In this leapfrog over german positions east of the rhine. This trip is really necessary for victory, as the first planes get away. Carefully guided to avoid s narl. Its a gigantic task to get the two planes and gliders away from their bases in england safely. A job without presidcedent. Take off instructions Winston Churchill and general eisenhower of their progress from the ground, near the rhine. Then the Prime Minister takes a Vantage Point as the p
The result of long planning long preparation with the loss of often thousands of men. But when something comes along that is unexpected and you have this great prize, there is great alarm. In other cases you planned for it, expected it. Here you come along with something that gives a quick lift to the morale of the whole force. Everyone, from private up to those in washington and london, they knew that the war was over. Everyone of us realize that if hitler had the slightest sense [no audio] the gallantry of the men that did it is something that should never be forgotten. And something that the American Government should like to keep. The people they love their bridge. They loved it because it was an attraction for visitors from all over the countryside. They loved to stroll across it on sunday afternoons, to have technics near the site of it and they were right proud of the fact that the bridge was a strategic link between the german ruler of the north and the region to the south. Eve