But i made the mental decision, im going to beat this thing. I dont know how long, but i will go home. So i live every day every day is a great day. If you think you have a bad day, let me tell you one day as a p. O. W. I say that humbly. But after we finished this and he asked me about some propaganda material about some battles that had i been in. And i said i have to disagree with you on this one particular battle. You guys didnt win. He looks leans forward and looks at me with all seriousness, oh, no, you have been misled by that Propaganda Machine we have in this country called the free press. Now im 25 and im kind of cocky but in no position to be cocky in that environment and i think to myself, you have got to be kidding me. And that is when it really sunk in. Because they reiterated it later on. Even if something is false, the doctrine, if you repeat it a thousand and one times, it becomes true. And i said to myself, wow. So as a mission before, fighting with them and living wi
The civil war. She dr. Appomattox, virginia talked about appomattox, virginia. This was recorded at the busy them of the appomattox. It is about four to five minutes. Just 45 minutes. Elizabeth varon thank you for that very, very kind introduction. Grant e. Lee surrender to and is a familiar tableau. They met in the house of William Mclean in the hamlet appomattox courthouse. Grant dressed casually in a much tattered uniform, represented the hardscrabble farmers and. Age earners after awkwardly extending pleasantries about their service in the mexican war, they agreed to surrender terms that effectively ended the civil war. Grant set free the concord soldiers of north virginia on their honor. To promised they would never again take up arms against the united states. The megaminty in this hour magnanimity in this hour united the north and south and provided the way for a world power of america. This casts the surrender as a moment of feeling that transcended policy. Today, i will tell y
After world war ii, they would come in and compromise every liberalthinking social Democratic Party and crush them and take over the works. It was a terrible economic idea communism and made into an evil force by a totalitarian nature by what we were experiencing. I was sympathetic with what president ial candidate Ronald Reagan said, but its a lot easier to say than it actually is to do. Im not of the school if we were to ramped up our effort in vietnam we would have won it. The most important thing we underestimated was presuming that communism was monolithic and that vietnam was a pep pet of the soviet union and china. Yugoslavia was a wellknown sort of renegade inside the communist party movement. The suggestion you might characterize it is go big or stay home is a little shorter version of what Ronald Reagan said on that particular occasion. There is a lot of legitimacy, i believe in that statement, but theres lots of qualifiers too which suggests that if you dont if those element
Rains this winter. Could cause millions of dollars of damage. Pam kron 4s Maureen Kelly reports, fema also laid out what it is doing to try and lessen the impact. Reporter the worst case scenerio for this coming winter is being nino. Which was the strongest event on record. It was an expensive. And deadly rainfall season. 40 counties were declared diaster areas. Reporter as floodwaters rose and mudslides came crashing down. 17 people were killed and. A hundred thousand people were evacuated. The state racked up 883Million Dollars in damage. Along the coast. Homes were lost due to erosion. Reporter this time around its believed that california will have more wet days. And they will be wetter than usual. And higher snow levels. The report says there is a substainial risk for levee failure. They are also expecting significant high tides. Reporter there is increased concern that soil hardening from the drought could make flooding more widespread in valley and urban areas. Because the sun b
I already bust my first appearance on cspan. I guess i would like to first think cspan book tv for featuring my reading on your program. I would like dependent machine treat festival for making me a part of the leonard literary lineup. Thank perry lives not only for hosting this, but for giving writers like me and many other people a place to ride in public. Much of this book was written at the coffee shop. American wet and wisdom began. In december 191732 edition of the pennsylvania gazette Benjamin Franklin been the following advertisement. Just published for 1783. Poor richard, an almanac. Writing under the name Richard Saunders in not only narrow down the day of his death, date and time october 171733 at 3 to 9 00 p. M. But also the exact moment when too worldly bodies aligned at the very instance of the convention. He was a rationalist product of the enlightenment who heaped scorn on astrologers. More crucially he was a business rival. Often achieved by stepping on competitors. Fr