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I think where we are in his head is with the tapes. Thats as close as we want to come. The country was obsessed with vietnam. Lynn don johnson had abday kated as the president of the United States. We had had chicago, riots in the streets at the democratic convention. So the whole country was in upheaval of a kind that we had never seen. Antiwar movement such that we had never seen in this country. So thats the context. Yeah, but nixon was a smart politician. Well, now im going to go to this. What you hear on the tapes and if you read dougs book, if you read this book that these two jentle men, and i have not read the whole doorstoper, but im giving it a pretty good look. And what you see in the nonwater gate tapes, and doug and i were just talking about it, is the same darkness of nixons mind. Its about nixon, the dog that doesnt bark is what would be right for the American People. You dont hear that. What you do hear is what you just referred to. Nixons fine intelligence. You dont he
1964, were provoked. They were not the unprovoked aggression that was presented to the American Public and the basis for our bombing back. Secret running the patrols, the socalled desoto patrols, to figure out how the north vietnamese radar work, to see how they would respond, and. O intercept communications as part of an ongoing pressure on the north vietnamese. Boats onacks on our the second of august were presented as unprovoked aggression when actually, we have provoked them. This is one of the big ones. The president knew it. The defense secretary knew it. We have them on plan we have them on tape. It certainly has something to do with that attack. I think we should also at that time, mr. President , explained that op. Land 304a on friday night, we had four boats from vietnam land manned by vietnamese or other nationals attack two islands and we expended 1000 rounds of ammunition. We probably shot up a radar station in other buildings. Areatroyer in the undoubtedly led them to con
Are using them online. The courses we teach at george washington, for most of these kids, if it is not online, it does not exist. So part of our whole mission has been to get these primary sources, loosed from the government through the freedom of information act, and then get them into in digital formats, organize them, curate them, index them. So students and journalists can find them. Citizens can find them. We get calls from congress. They have questions, too. How are you funded and where did you come from . We really were started by a whole group of journalists and historians back in the mid1980s who, each of whom had used the freedom of information act to get documents declassified from the government. I think the piles were stacking up in the kitchens. And to save their families i think they created the National Security archive. Not juast a repository but as an institutional memory and a followup because we not only inherited boxes and boxes of documents from these pioneering j
For that, i am eternally grateful. He has just come from georgia, the country not the state, where he has been advising on International Disability issues. He will explain about what an extraordinary impact this has had internationally. Lex frieden is a professor of medicine at the university of texas. One of the godfathers of the ada, one of our great teachers. His friends also helped in this. Lex was an amazing teacher. I am going to start with him. He is the first speaker before we go to senator harkin. Thank you. It is a great honor for me to be here today and share with you my memory of the first meeting i had with president bush. It was january, 1986. Three colleagues from the National Council on disability and i had the opportunity to go to the white house and present the Vice President with the recommendations from a report that we had been working on for two years. The report was all about how to make legislation that would improve the quality of life of people with disabiliti