The Recordings Program. It is quite wonderful actually to be here with everybody. It is something of a reunion in fact since kent was with us for years and years and spending his time at university of South Carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share with you insights from the secret white house tapes. And well look to explore the dynamics therein and to relate them to see what kind of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the Recordings Program, we were established in 1998. And our goal, we are the only institution of its kind doing it, is to analyze and transcribe the secret president ial tapes that president s made from 1940 through 1973. That is from Franklin Roosevelt through Richard Nixon. We do this work at the Miller Center. We actually do it off site as well because so much of the work these days is browserbased. But we publish our
University of South Carolina. For the next 75 minutes, well share insights from the secret white house tapes, and well look to explore the dynamics therein, but also to relate them to contemporary developments, to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself. Just a word about the recordings program, we were established in 1998, and our goal, we are the only institution of this kind doing it, is to analyze and transcribe the secret president ial tapes that president s made from 1940 through 1973, thats from Franklin Roosevelt through Richard Nixon. We do this work at the Miller Center. We do it offsite as well, because so much of our work these days is browserbased. But we publish work through the university of Virginia Press and its electronic imprint, rotunda. The president ial recordings digital initiative, digital edition, is our publication. We
We will look to explore the dynamics. To the also let them contemporary developments to see what kinds of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics, the history they contain, parallels to todays events, that is a practice of democracy itself. Established in 1998. We are the only institution of its time doing it, analyzing and transcribing the secret made fromal tapes 1974 to 1973. We do this work at the Miller Center. So much of our work is browserbased. The Digital Edition is ours. We also publish the greatest hits through Miller Center dot oregon. We share with you those clips today. I just want to knowledge of few people that helped us on the way. The National Historical records commission. We appreciate their belief and confidence in the work that we do. We welcome our program administrator. Finally, i would like to knowledge mark saunders. Of thethe director university of virginia press. The founder and motive force behind this. This weekend,ay suddenly. It is a
Euros. Oil prices climb amid mounting tensions between the u. S. And iran as washington ratchets up economic pressure with major new sanctions and President Trump tells nbc news he never threatened to demote fed chair Jerome Powell but claims he has the power to do so if he wants. I have the power to do so. Thats not a threat just a reminder that you can. I have the right to do that but i havent said that. What hes done is 50 billion a nont quantitative tightening, its ridiculous. Well, good morning and happy monday, everybody. To kick off the week were getting german data out. So lets break that down for you. The june efo survey german business moral has fallen in june the Business Climate index came in slightly higher than expectations at 97. 4 versus the forecast of 97. 2 however the execations index come in at 94. 2 versus forecast of 94. 5. Little lower on expectations current condition index risen to 100. 8 in june versus forecast of 100. 2. On forward looking indicators sentimen
So were going to get started with our second panel. We spent the first hour talking about the of war and something about the military issues and strategies associated with it. In this hour, were going to talk about writing about war. What it means to be on the ground in the place, sort of study it and reflect on it from. A historical or literary point of view. And id like to start with we have panelists. Ill introduce them very briefly, although i suspect known to all of you, robert brigham, the shirley ecker. Barsky professor of history and International Relations at vassar and author of numerous books on vietnam war, including reckless Henry Kissinger and the tragic tragedy of the vietnam war and vietnam and the limits of american power. Bob brigham. Next, we have philip caputo, a vietnam vet and author of 71 books, including a rumor of war, one of the most important early books on vietnam. And indeed, it helped to establish a whole genre. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for investigati