Pete thank you. Bobby pin was in. Will green is wonderful, jedediah. Happy sunday to you. Jedediah i hate to stop the lovefest. Im used you guys compliment each other. You cant compliment each other. This is a hell of a way to start the morning. Will National Compliment day day. You have to follow the rules. Jedediah good morning to everyone joining us at home. We look forward to a packed four hours to come. Well begin with this, President Biden making first round of calls for World Leaders since taking office. Reverse trump Immigration Policies and form a new trade deal with the uk. David spunt is live in washington with more on the demands for the new administration. Reporter good morning. The new commanderinchief made several phone calls to our neighbors to the north and south, mexico and canada, also the Prime Minister of Great Britain. The call to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. President biden talked heavily about the Keystone Xl Pipeline which is interesting because Justin Trudea
Hitchcock, the william w. Professor of history at the university of virginia. Dr. Hitchcock is the author of several books on the cold war, most recently the age of eisenhower, america and the world in the 1950s published in 2018 by symon and shchuster. Good to be with you. Looking forward to a conversation. Lets get right to it. In surveying the 35 years of the cold war and its impact, would could argue that it fundamentally changed the constitutional framework of the American Government, that it was this period that saw the greater concentration of power in the president at the expense of the congress, that more than ever in our history, because of the challenges of the cold war, our National Course is now set by the personality of the president. Would you agree with that . Well, yes, i would agree with that, and i think its been characteristic of the presidency over the last half century or more that it has significantly grown in scope and in power, and the cold war had a great deal
Hes the author of the age of eisenhower. The Georgia Historical Society and the uva club of savannah cohosted the event which is one in a series of conversations on the cold war 75 years after it began. Im stan deaton and its our pleasure to partner with the uva club of savannah. This conversation is the first of three with university of virginia faculty. Part of the Georgia Historical Societys Georgia History festival which is focused on the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the cold war. With me today is dr. William hitchcock. The professor of history at the university of virginia. Dr. Hitchcock is the author of several books on the cold war. Most recently the age of eisenhower and the world in the 1950s. Welcome and thanks for joining us. Thank you very much, stan. Good to be with you. Looking forward to the conversation. Lets get right to it. In surveying the 45 years of the cold war and its impact. One could argue that it changed the constitutional framework of the American Gov
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Saying that the europeans have made compromises weve heard from france that the u. K. Has made compromises and thats because each of those countries wants to show to their electorate that they have one that theyve got the best possible deal for their country and if you read the papers here in the u. K. Today its very much talking about that this is some sort of victory that Prime Minister blair is johnson has managed to pull this off even before anyone has even seen this deal you understand its about 2000 pages long if here piers Prime Minister has deployed military forces to a Western Region where a gunman killed 100 people local media reporting Government Forces killed 42 armed men in many shango all good moves have a visited the area a day before the attacks to urge peace and unity between ethnic groups. U. S. President donald trump has granted clemency to more of his allies the list of 26. 00 pardons and commutations includes his former Campaign Chairman paul manifold jared cushion