Americans are always uncomfortable with this concept. Seats. Squirm in their dont you make your own luck . Not in war. Sometimes it is made for you. This is absolutely critical. Who among those commanders at all levels is lucky and who is unlucky . We have talked about some of the unlucky ones. John lucas. Weve talked about some of the lucky ones. Dwight eisenhower being first among them. No one luckier than him. He keeps seven lucky coins in his pocket and he takes them out and rubs them. Mark clark, the four leaf clover. His wife send it to him. He keep sitting in wall keeps it in his wallet. The answer is yes. Yes, we have to go through this. You are looking for killers. Killinge breeding divisions. Of northur of them out africa and theyre really good. First division, third division, 34th division, First Armored division. They are full of kilelrs. Killers, because that is how you win. You find men you are willing to kill other men and leaders who are willing to lead them to kill oth
Airplane and i arrived here. A number of circumstances. I spent 34 years in the military. Was not remember a day i not working and it was because of this kind of equipment and the people i worked with who made it such a rewarding experience for me. So my thrill right now is to be thatto present an airplane i can share with others and let them see what this airplane did and all the people who put it together, designed it, made it available, is a story we ought to be proud of. Locald out where cspans content vehicles are going next. You are watching American History tv, all weekend, every weekend on cspan3. With live coverage of the u. S. House on cspan and the senate on cspan two, here on cspan three, we complement that coverage by showing you the most relevant congressional hearings. On weekends, cspan3 is the home to American History tv, programs that tell our nations story, including six unique series, the civil wars 150th anniversary, visiting battlefields and key events, merrick an
Are using them online. The courses we teach at george washington, for most of these kids, if it is not online, it does not exist. So part of our whole mission has been to get these primary sources, loosed from the government through the freedom of information act, and then get them into in digital formats, organize them, curate them, index them. So students and journalists can find them. Citizens can find them. We get calls from congress. They have questions, too. How are you funded and where did you come from . We really were started by a whole group of journalists and historians back in the mid1980s who, each of whom had used the freedom of information act to get documents declassified from the government. I think the piles were stacking up in the kitchens. And to save their families i think they created the National Security archive. Not juast a repository but as an institutional memory and a followup because we not only inherited boxes and boxes of documents from these pioneering j
Im tom blanson onn r the to floor of the main library of George Washington university. Which is where we live. And were in a room ful of declassified documents. A lot of the people using our collections are using them online. For a lot of these kids, if its not online, it doesn exist. Part of our whole mission has been to get these primary sources loose from the government through frae dom of information act request. And then get them into digital format how are you funded and where did you come from . We were started from a group of journalists to save their family, i think they created the National Security archive as a institutional memory and a follow up. We inherited their pending information of class. The really sensitive documents, theres a debate about is this kl ally secret . ejnni or can this be released . It can take years to get a declassification request through the system. This has been an iterative story for 50 years. To get the documents loose. Bits and pieces and not t
Few yard from where im standing. In the distance is the Clinton Correctional Facility from which these two men are believed to have escaped. The question is why the investigation has shifted back here. Theres also a hunt that continues in the neighboring state of vermont. Yesterday we heard from the governors of new york and vermont saying that their hundreds of leads lead investigators to believe they could have crossed state lines. Much of the focus of the investigation today will be on Joyce Mitchell whos believed to have provided some form of support to these men. Her loved ones saying 95 of these reports are untrue. Her daughterinlaw says shes disgusted that her motherinlaw would help them. That Police Presence continues to intensify in this part of upstate new york. Lets bring in the governor of vermont. Thanks for joining us. Let me ask you. We keep focusing on this. Great to be with you. Its a pleasure. We keep focusing on this one prison employee. To your knowledge, have inves