One cia director, george h. W. Bush, later became president himself. The Smithsonian Associates hosted this program. Good evening, everyone. My name is ruth robbins. Its a pleasure to welcome you here tonight for our program. A couple of quick things first. One is, if you could, please put away your cell phones, turn them off, silence them, any electronic devices, we would appreciate it. If youre wondering why bright lights in here, because youre all going to be on tv. Cspan is taping tonight. Im kidding, youre not going to be on cspan, the speaker will be on cspan. When we get to the q a, they usually want to bring a mic down so they can record it. So if you have a question, just try to wait until they bring the mic to you so we dont have to repeat it. The speaker will repeat the questions so you can hear, but this is so they can hear it or however they work it. Our speaker tonight is david robarge, received a phd at columbia university. After teaching at columbia, working for banker
American modernism and the role it played in the cold war. He argues that in an effort to win over skeptical intellectuals and cultural critics around the institutions in the United States such as the cia and state department promoted thatnism in order to prove they were sophisticated and on the cutting edge. This was posted by New York University. Mr. Barnhisel it is particularly special for me to be back here because i received my ba here. It is a real thrill to return here. In fact in many ways my book got its start in this building. Gradt mean in the usual student way, where this is where you start your research. To New York University as a pretty naive guy. I had barely been out of oregon. I did know anything about new york city. I had resolved to pay my own way in the city without any family help. Down a workstudy job here in the basement of those library, but i quickly learned that a 10 hour work week wasnt going to pay rent and living expenses. So even in a much cheaper time. J
I will bring people in here. You can almost hear the echoes. You can hear the gavel of the chairman. The senator is engaging in a statement. Sick ofgetting being interrupted. Do i have the floor . Order. Order. This room looks better than it did when it was designed. Remodeling in the that it was highlighted that way. The room is so magnificent. It is wonderful. ,hese huge windows looking out it is a stunning room. Butonly for hearings, special receptions. For luncheons. For first ladies. Special events constantly. Was a grander to whatever event it was. 1909. Ned in they were quite sure but they knew major events would take place here. In 1912 the titanic sank. Survivors who survived were brought by boat to new york and the sinden wanted to know what happened. It was a shocking event. They thought they were going to anotherbritish crew on boat back to england before they could get interrogated. A special committee was committed. I came down here to washington. The very first major hea
Is the National Security agency who was into our private phone calls and read our mail, and are a core component of our secret government that has done Everything Possible to my requests for access to their historic records. Has for decades been in the forefront of filing requests and occasionally legal suit to obtain declassification and release of highly classified and hidden documents. Nsa ise of the good chasing our store records, trying to pry open the hidden hands of the bad nsa, and most of the Covert Agency is, and our National Archives that have layers of classification and secrecy. Has beennbluh responsible for Major Projects at the good nsa and has extracted records. Hero. S my definition of a vital records have been obtained of the Nixon Kissinger overthrow of the chilean government in 1973 and, and his book was declassified dossier on atrocity and accountability. They read like an outline of a novel. Obtained documents after the u. S. Attempt to overthrow the cuban governm
My dad had an eighth grade education, my mom, a fifthgrade education, and yet, they believed in the promise of this country. They worked really hard and sacrificed, as so many latinos and hispanics have done in this country, because they wanted that Better Future for their children, and they believed in the promise of this country. They talked us important values that have been our guide for our lives, me and my siblings, my six brothers and sisters. They taught us the importance of family, faith, Community Hard work, sacrifice, honesty integrity. Tonight at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Next on American History tv, researcher Peter Kornbluh discusses president kennedys attempts to open up negotiations with cuba. He discusses the issues involved with establishing reliable dialogue in negotiations. He is coauthor of back channel to cuba. This is about 45 minutes. Thank you. Im here to introduce Peter Kornbluh, whom i have just met. I have just gotten a copy of his new book, co