Waterman between orange grove and vanderbilt. It is too premature guess who is responsible for the carnage. But happen to have sitting in the chair former senator bob kerrey a former navy s. E. A. L. , it is understandable that peoples minds go there right now . Sure, you dont know who the shooters are. Regardless, demonstrators from the vulnerability, these are asymmetric threats, small attacks, but can do a tremendous amount of damage. Not only do they take lives but a tremendous amount of collateral damage, the way we feel. Liz we have chopper shots and shots on the ground which are unstable because police are told to move right and left in the location of this is near vanderbilt, waterman and orange grove. Its an area, if you know Southern California, its a heavily trafficked area but all shut down, and it is an active shooter situation, the s. W. A. T. Team has a big job ahead of them as they search for up to three suspects . A big and dangerous job because its very much like our
[applause] if you live long enough you were interviewed a lot. This was absolutely great a in v you are going to ireland. Were you born in ireland . My husbands family is 100 irish and we are going to celebrate her tenyear anniversary there. I couldnt be more grateful. [applause] now you can stand. [applause] up next on booktv after words with guest host James Swanson author and heritage fellow. This weeks James Mcpherson and latest book embattled rebel Jefferson Davis as commander in chief. And its the acclaimed historian present confederate president Jefferson Davis as an astute military strategist whose failures he argues are not the reason confederacy lost the civil war. This program is about an hour. Host gem lets start at the beginning. Its november 181860 and lincoln is president elect. Who is Jefferson Davis in the fall of 1860 . Guest Jefferson Davis in the fall of 1860 as a senator from mississippi. He has served in that capacity off and on for about eight yea years, interrup
Questions, but rob will be signing in the atrium and you can ask more questions ar there. Thank you very much. Thank you. [applause] [inaudible conversations] is there a Nonfiction Author kabookie would like to see featured on booktv . Send us an email to booktv or cspan. Org, tweet us at booktv or post on our wall, facebook. Com booktv. Facebook. Com booktv. From this conference on james byrnes suicide of the west, and examining and testing of liberalism, a panel entitled the drift of u. S. Foreign policy and the challenges to western survival. My pleasure to introduce the moderator for the final panel which is u. S. Foreign policy of the challenges of western survival. The professors to diplomat and lectern International Studies here at your mic the report immediately, he served as a Senior Advisor to george shultz, and because new and reagan justin mckee. Professor hill is a Research Fellow at stanfords hoover institute. I served as chief Foreign Policy adviser to candidate rudy giu
West. We cannot live without one another and yet our nationalistic ideologies encourage us to focus too narrowly on the nation and that is particularly true in the middle east where the nationstates set up by the british and the french 100 years ago were arbitrary, bizarre and put together a whole lot of incompatible peoples and told them to create a nation. Very difficult to do. All this set up to fail. And also they are modern and very successful in their economic handling of all the oil that they have been acquiring from their travels. I wish i knew. I got into this, this skyped of kind of study not because i am filled with religious affilation but because i am filled with dread as i look at where we are going. There is an even in our circle tolerance western world there is a lot of bigotry that reminds me of the bigotry in europe in the 1930s and 40s that ended in the concentration camps. And i feel terribly we are not going back to Community Fear and we are into our cell phones, c
Museum andtional spy Smithsonian Associates cohosted this 90 minute event. We are delighted to have our own historian. Dr. Vince houghton. He is the historian and curator of the museum. He holds a phd in military history from the university of maryland, where his Research Centered on u. S. Scientific and technological intelligence in the Second World War and the cold war. It makes them ideally suited to deliver todays talk. He also got his masters degree focusing on the relationship. Etween the u. S. And russia you may get some questions focusing on our current difficulties with russia. On thetalked extensively history of u. S. Intelligence, diplomatic history, the cold war. He is a u. S. Army veteran, serving in the balkans where he assisted in civilian and military intelligence activities. We are delighted to have you as our speaker. Please help me welcome vince houghton. [applause] thank you, peter. Thank you for coming here today. Any chance to talk about the atomic spies, Nuclear