Reply, there is no qualification. That is president harry truman on august, 1940 five, announcing japans Unconditional Surrender following the u. S. Department of to atomic weapons, ending world war ii. Your new book culminates with this event 75 years ago. In the midst of what is going on in the country, why is it significant to pause and never this event so long ago . Guest i do not know if it is significant, but it is interesting and that was enough for me. [laughter] you have to say was significant for me personally, because i, as the host of the sunday talk show, i live and breathe washingtons world today. And one of the joys about researching and writing and now talking about this book, has nothing to do with donald trump. I do not mean that either as praise or denigration. But, we live in this world that is highly polarized. A zerosum game, all of that. And it was kind of refreshing to go back to 1945, even though we were in the midst of world war ii. Because, susan, we were all
I have received this afternoon a message from the japanese government, and reply to the message forwarded to that government by the secretary of state on august 11. I deem this reply a full acceptance of the potsdam declaration. It specifies the Unconditional Surrender of japan, in their reply, there is no qualification. That is president harry truman on august, 1940 five, announcing japans Unconditional Surrender following the u. S. Department of to atomic weapons, ending world war ii. Your new book culminates with this event 75 years ago. In the midst of what is going on in the country, why is it significant to pause and never this event so long ago . Guest i do not know if it is significant, but it is interesting and that was enough for me. [laughter] you have to say was significant for me personally, because i, as the host of the sunday talk show, i live and breathe washingtons world today. And one of the joys about researching and writing and now talking about this book, has nothi
Last to get them back. We struggled vainly to regain our bearings while depression, fear and failure took stock of the nation. A 10th of the population of the United States was unemployed. One out of every four of us was on relief. In vain, we looked for something to restore our confidence and hope and our courage. Without jobs we had no money and without money we could not purchase food for the hungry mouths at home. Our only hope lay in charity. Hunger drove people to the bread lines, anxiously waiting for a sign of better days. Then came the federal governments work program. One by one, it took us out of the bread line and gave us a new chance to take a normal place in the normal life of our community. It made us selfsupporting. It changed the haggard hopeless faces of the bread line to the faces filled with hope and happiness. For now, we work again unskilled laborers, the forgotten men of past generations, now work steadily at decent wages. They are building and repairing schools,
Embroiled in a war for years in yemen faces an unprecedented environmental disaster a damaged Oil Storage Facility is not really threatening in the red sea who is to blame and can catastrophe be averted before its too late this is inside story. Hello there and welcome to the program im laura kyle years of civil war have torn yemen apart the fighting has divided the cities destroyed the economy and trick of the worlds worst humanitarian crisis now the country is also on the verge of an environmental disaster for 5 years the fleecing Storage Facilities has lain idle off the coast on border more than 1100000 barrels of oil as yemens who feel rebels battle with the saudi backed government for control of the country the facility has been left to rust United Nations has described it as a ticking time bomb one that will eventually cause an ecological and humanitarian disaster if nothing is done but doing something is proving difficult the who fees who control the area where the facility is pe
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