Want to thank the commentators and everyone for assembling this deeply honor especially to be giving the William Roger lewis in the flesh. We were on the state Department Committee suffering through a lot of bows and arrows back in the decade prior, and i got to know him well and i feel really honored to give a lecture that is in his name. This book came about and so many of you, my friends, have heard this origin story. This came about because lewis liked the review i had done and mentioned the series that helen was doing that would use my biography to teach history that would pick biographical topics or would use a representative biography to get a broader subject of history. They had just published their first volume. It was on pocahontas. And issues regarding native American History, they were looking for somebody to do something on foreign relations, he offered me the opportunity to put together the perspectives. These were supposed to be short and concise books, that was the idea
Test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test test. Captioning performed by vitac captioning performed by vitac Richard Nixon is our freddy krueger. This is the normal set of terms. You have not done that. You have wrichb the book with Historical Context of research but also understanding that kissinger knew what we know now. Thats the second wonderful thing about your book is the fact you used neither anachronistic views nor hindsight. I was struck by this in the nixon library, the point you were talking about earlier, tom, the fact they were so obsessed with the 72 election. Youre sitting there going, why are you obsessed . You won every state practically, but they were. You dont have that sense. Its almost a suspense book to read. Whats going to happen . Will vietnam be foretold. Im going to do some bigger, some smaller questions and let you respond. The first one was i did a poll of young students, law studen
President s it established and the legacies that left. There is a strong case to be made that november 11, the day that a battered square rigor called the mayflower made safe harbor in a place near what is today in massachusetts. That day should be one of the greatest moments in our national theory, comparable to fourth of july, independence day, and september 17, constitution day. But let me qualify that statement a little bit. As ourk of the pilgrims forebears and we are right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new puritans that were selling new england at the time did not imagine they were settling establishing the United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The early settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations they wanted, what the spaniards wanted from the
We think of the pilgrims as our forbearers and we have a right to do so but it is important to remember they and the other new englanders settling at the time did not imagine they were settling United States of america. Nothing could have been further from their minds. They were doing something entirely different. They were about the business of establishing a place where they could enjoy a pure and uncorrupted church. The settlers of virginia were motivated by material considerations, gold, wealth, material wealth. The settlers of new england were driven by religious zeal. Most of them were puritans, men and women of a company spent who believed the church of england had not gone far enough to purge itself of its corrupt aspects and would despair of a cleansing renewal ever coming in their lifetimes, and hence their decision to emigrate to the new beginning. In particular were not only calvinists but separatists, meaning they had separated themselves from the aurch of england as they
There are a lot of people who disagree with Charlie Hebdo theres all this thousands of what you would call is the list is a mystic stream ists. Its very few more terrorists theres very few people who actually do deal if the Charlie Hebdo was so offensive was so horrible surely they could be thousands of people on the streets starving one another its not its a tiny tiny minority what is it about the tiny minority that distinguishes them from all the rest of us and thats why you have to look at this that the individual level when one starts it almost gives legitimacy to the others so the reason that france has raised its terrorism level is because it takes one and its kind of like a rally around the flag now were all going to go because it becomes rational you know when you think that you will get legitimacy for it. To ation in france on our website r. T. Dot com and get the latest updates by following us on twitter ill be back with more news in just about half an hour thanks for watchin