This week on q a, our guest is margaret macmillan, author of nixon and mao the week that chnaged the world. Cspan margaret macmillan, but if you think a book about nixon and mao would so . Guest my father was a good subject and i love the good storiestoriesof history and thou have two extraordinary personality is with great falls and talent and it was an interesting moment that ended the period but in the United States and china and started Something Else so my next book i wanted to do something manageable has a good story. Cspan did he rely on to tell you what that moment was like . Guest that the documents. Theres a record now of all the transcripts of the first memoirs. Bob haldeman did a diary that is helpful, Henry Kissinger wrote them and thereve been lots of interviews, so i gathered whatever i could from those that have been there. Cspan did you learn anything they dont already know . Guest i learned something i didnt know. I think i learned a great deal more about Richard Nixo
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Conference and theyre always occasions for looking back and drawing attention and theres another reason to look back at potsdam as we are reentering a world of Great Power Competition and reentering a world where geopolitics seems to have come back to the fore of international thinking and International Relations thinking. So it is well worth us coming back to this subject. So im especially glad to have a chance to talk to you about it. I wish it was in person again in kansas city. I wish that we weraible to do this face to face, but we will do the very best that we can. The key thing here that i want to return to throughout this presentation is shown by this photograph here of Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and smiling and shaking hands and the point i want to reiterate here is that these three men and most of the advisers around them did not believe that what they were doing at potsdam was laying the seeds of a cold war. We know from the scholarship of the 1960s, 70s and beyond, a
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From sydney, australia, where a mother whale was trying to protect her calf from a crowd of surfers. She had the perfect weapon, using her powerful tail to whip them out of the way. Turning now to the battle over protecting children when it comes to sending them back to school. Some Teachers Unions are saying even one case should be enough to shut down an entire school. It comes amid new questions about rapid testing. I spoke earlier with dr. Yvonne maldonado. Good morning, dr. Maldonado. Thank you for joining us. In a second test administered yesterday in columbus, ohios governor, mike dewine, has tested negative for covid19. Earlier in the day, before he had a scheduled meeting with President Trump, he had taken a rapid test, and he tested positive. What does this say about the Testing Process and the reliability of testing . We know that rapid tests are very good for screening large numbers of people. But that the pcr tests, which he took later, are much more sensitive and specific,