Professor Darren Dochuk teaches a class about mid20th century Oil Interests. He describes the expansion of he describes the east Texas Oil Boom and the expansion of u. S. Oil businesses abroad to places like saudi arabia and alberta, canada. He argues that religion played a significant role in the worldview and Business Practices of Global Companies and individual prospectors. This class is one hour and 15 minutes. Prof. Dochuk good morning. Welcome back from spring break and welcome back to our history of oil in american life. Today we are going to look at a critical phase between the 1930s and 1950s. A moment in which some important turns take place in the life of american oil. Two sectors we have been looking at, major oil and independent oil. This is a period in which the nation itself is kind of awakened to a new role in global politics. In 1941, it was famously stated that the u. S. Was entering a new era of global leadership. It was the American Century dawning in the early 1940
Replaced in part by two programs at the heart of the second deal. And the Social Security act. Created permanent structures that overlapped. Sent a letter to the nations clergy asking what they thought. And he received more than 12,000 replies within two months. Proved generally favorable in tone. For the first time in our history we have a National Administration that is seeking to realize the objectives catholics, protest tants and jus. For religious leaders like this one, the welfare state represented a religious achievement. One mississippi presbyterian and selfproclaimed southern democrat worried that the churchs hold had been receivered. Where they once had community contacts, they now looked to the government for everything. Now its possible that federal aid made it easier now they had options and clergy already inclined to question the new deal expressed alarm and outrage. Black and white proved Elementary School to pulling them out of the depression as did much of the regions
Least. Foreign secretary, quizzing you . Thank you rngs foreign secretary. Do you agree that peace keepers will be needed in libya . And, if so, has the u. N. Government made any commitments . We havent made any commitments. Weve discussed on friday and saturday. I think we recognized in discussing this European Union that there would be a strong expectation that the European Union would take the lead in providing peace keepers. That is not to say a military force to subdue the warring factions. But more of the policing force to maine tan a peace that had been established. Libya is very much a step in business with roots through to the gulf of guinea, which is the source of many of these things. Its very much in europes interest to help to secure libya and ensure that the soit earn coast of the mediterranean is properly policed all the way along. So clearly theres some steps in the Peace Keeping force. All im saying is that i think there is a recognition across the European Union that
Hypnotic state where the people with guns are basically running the country are going bankrupt. I think there is calls for some moderate optimism. But i wouldnt put it any higher than that. I dont think to be an expert on libya. But those who are tell me that the principle protagonists. If people are really fighting over territory and money and oil. It is easier to find solutions which divide the riches. And this is a rich country. So i would be moderately optimistic, but no more than that. Cautiously optimistic but there could be a chance of the government of national unity. I do think that the presence of isil in the country, the inevitability that there will be continued intervention that is able to deal with the problem itself. I do think those are helpful points of oppression on the sides of the civil war to think very hard about whether its in their collective best interests to try and resolve their differences and work together. Foreign secretary, can we turn to iran and the Nuc
Groups in the years of the cold why and government organizations made up of anticommunist private citizens engaged in cold war propaganda and it later emerged that these groups were being secretly funded and to some extent managed by the cia and one group that i really didnt engage with was the american friends of the middle east and it is purposed to do so much with the cold war and as with promoting the arab world to an american audience and it was also antizionists, that having the influence of the emerging israel lobby in 1950s america. This seems so odd and unexpected and i didnt really know quite what to do with it. So i mention it and then put my middle american friends to the one side. So i came back to the subject and story and began to delve into it further. I soon realized that the main office in the main cia officer involved in the creation of the american friends of the middle east was none other than current cameras about. This name might already be familiar to you before