Few core issues that have in many ways given thematic intensity to the 1960s era. Weve been trying to think about the meaning and reality of equality in the United States in the 1960s era. Weve been pondering what Democratic Practice could and should look like in the United States, and then very pertinent to what well do today, what role the United States should play internationally. What role should the United States play in a world that was fast changing in the 1960s . So weve gotten to the point in this class where weve reached a point where president johnson has decided by early 1965 to begin a forthright military intervention by the United States in vietnam. And the reasons have been fairly compellingly laid out by johnson between 1964 and 1965. With the gulf of tonkin resolution in 1964, the president made his case that there was aggression coming from North Vietnam pointed at the south, and pointed at the United States as well in the attack on u. S. Ships in International Waters
About wilbur mills. Mills told me that by the end of this week, he thought he would have something in shape to come down and discuss with you that he could present in the way of a packet that could be of interest. I told him i had read some articles lately that were a little bit disturbing that indicated something that was happening on the medicare and, indeed that, well, you know better than to the attention to those stories, and i said, i agree with you, wilbur. I just wanted to be reassured and he said, you know you cannot Read Everything you want, and this bill ultimately it has to have the mills stamp on it, and i said well, the president s view is that whenever you want to talk to him, that door is just wide open. He is happy to see you, and he said you just tell him again, as i told you lately last week that just as soon as i am ready to sit down and be able to present think to him that i could spell out that would make some sense and that would represent what would be of intere
To push socalled politically correct narratives under the guise of objective, unbiased reporting. So theas question for today is, has the socalled fourth estate, the institution of that largelyr is responsible for checking the government, for providing information to its citizenry and so on fallen prey to a rising pressure from the woke or the pressure to be woke . Today batya ungarsargon the deputy Senior Editor at newsweek said yes. She has a. Forthcoming book. Its are great cover. I know were not supposed to judge books by the covers but this is a great cover. Its called bad news how woke media is undermining democracy. She chronicles the radical shift in american journalism over the last few years and what it means for democracy as a whole. Im looking forward to explaining this and to help me a number of guest. First batya ungarsargon is the Deputy Editor of newsweek. Before that she was the opinion editor of the largest jewish media outlet in merrick and she has written extensivel