Thank you, john. I am delighted to introduce paul , the director of the center for vision and values, which focuses on advancing freedom with christian scholarship. Paul is also a visiting fellow with the Hoover Institution on war, revolution and peace at stanford university. Hes a frequent contributor to msnbc, cspan and fox news. In addition hes written for the New York Times, wall street journal, Political Science quarterly and many other publications. Among the numerous books he has offered are the crusader, Ronald Reagan and the fall of god and of Ronald Reagan, god and george w. William p. Clark, Ronald Reagans top hand. Today i am excited paul will be focusing on his newly released book, dupes however service have been manipulated how progressives have been manipulated for centuries. We are looking forward to hearing your discussion on this aspect of history the prominent role of the duped. Please help me welcome dr. Paul kengor. [applause] thank you, heather. John and everybody
Among the numerous books he has offered are the crusader, Ronald Reagan and the fall of communism, god and of Ronald Reagan, god and george w. Bush, and william p. Clark, Ronald Reagans top hand. Today i am excited paul will be focusing on his newly released book, dupes however service have been manipulated how progressives have been manipulated for centuries. We are looking forward to hearing your discussion on this aspect of history the prominent role of the duped. Please help me welcome dr. Paul kengor. [applause] thank you, heather. John and everybody here heritage, everybody for coming. Lee edwards. I really struggled with how to organize this talk because i turned in the manuscript of two 250,000 words and about 1000 pages, and i think god and Ronald Reagan was around 100,000 words. It gives you an idea of how enormous the task was and how many dupes are out there. I am not joking when i say this could be volume one in a multi volume stat set. I did not know where to stop. There
But i made the mental decision, im going to beat this thing. I dont know how long, but i will go home. So i live every day every day is a great day. If you think you have a bad day, let me tell you one day as a p. O. W. I say that humbly. But after we finished this and he asked me about some propaganda material about some battles that had i been in. And i said i have to disagree with you on this one particular battle. You guys didnt win. He looks leans forward and looks at me with all seriousness, oh, no, you have been misled by that Propaganda Machine we have in this country called the free press. Now im 25 and im kind of cocky but in no position to be cocky in that environment and i think to myself, you have got to be kidding me. And that is when it really sunk in. Because they reiterated it later on. Even if something is false, the doctrine, if you repeat it a thousand and one times, it becomes true. And i said to myself, wow. So as a mission before, fighting with them and living wi
Austin, texas, titled the vietnam war summit. It is about an hour and ten minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors by the naval rotc unit at the university of texas at austin and the pledge of allegiance led by United States Marine Corp Corporal kimberly burres. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the presentation of the colors by the naval rotc. [ music playing ] pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Announcer ladies and gentlemen, please welcome dr. Gregory al findes, from the university of texas at austin. [ applause ]. Well, thank you. I didnt get a promotion that i did not deserve. Four more years. Good afternoon and welcome to the final day of the vietnam war summit. I would like to take a few moments to thank everybody who participated in the sessions during these past few days. The loc
After world war ii, they would come in and compromise every liberalthinking social Democratic Party and crush them and take over the works. It was a terrible economic idea communism and made into an evil force by a totalitarian nature by what we were experiencing. I was sympathetic with what president ial candidate Ronald Reagan said, but its a lot easier to say than it actually is to do. Im not of the school if we were to ramped up our effort in vietnam we would have won it. The most important thing we underestimated was presuming that communism was monolithic and that vietnam was a pep pet of the soviet union and china. Yugoslavia was a wellknown sort of renegade inside the communist party movement. The suggestion you might characterize it is go big or stay home is a little shorter version of what Ronald Reagan said on that particular occasion. There is a lot of legitimacy, i believe in that statement, but theres lots of qualifiers too which suggests that if you dont if those element