And grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. He went to the local college, whittier college. And went to Duke University law school in the worst years of the great depression. The second world war, he joined the u. S. Navy. You can see the photo of nixon as a young navy officer. He served with distinction in the pacific, getting the right equipment to the right place at the right time and was given a series of commendations by his commanders. He was also a very talented offr player turn on his hours and he had a great ability to bluff. That is a valuable quality and someone undertaking Foreign Policy at a high level. Been46 after he had demobilized from the navy, nixon ran for congress. You can see the poster from his first election campaign. Ii veteransld war were elected into congress and the senate. Was nixon, one was john f. Kennedy. One was joe mccarthy. Career,arly political nixon rose very rapidly through the ranks. He was an odd anticommunist. He worked very hard to
Really for artists who have fled political persecution in their own countries and settled in berlin. What drove them to leave . What challenges did they face in their new home . What attracted them to the german capital . People in berlin are demonstrating for every bello roosts theater director smith. So choco is one of the cold organizers of the protest. Hes glad that he can express his opinion freely in germany, and that he can send a signal from abroad and should, in the berlin is not indifferent to what is happening in felde to suit them or is to the situation in our homeland. The real citizens are doing simply saying were helping you are supporting me in their mass protests have been taking place for months with the demonstrators calling for an end to the countrys authoritarian regime. Police have clamped down on them heavily even if they are no longer their charge. Cohen, other brother, rusian is in berlin. Feel part of the wider protest before we dont want that. We just knew th
Right now id like to bring you a different kind of story in its own way its just a dramatic as anything a writer could dream up that has to do with a new power source. This Power Authority will be out of more than 70 years ago. The deadly power of the atomic bomb was reprinted as the peaceful you clean energy was modern. We were at the forefront of technology, glamorous. They were like inside a secret inside this magical world and irresistible to governments. You think it was clear to france that salvation was nuclear, nuclear and business . Everybody in the electric utility business has suddenly decided, wow, we need Nuclear Power too. But from the beginning, the peaceful atom was dont buy safety concerns. Froome basically made clear that accidents can happen. Its very serious incidents by rising costs. Its economically so complex, so difficult, so tricky. Its kind of pulled under by its own dead weight. And by protests that through time leftists with their school car about for no in
Roll nonkosher all survives an explosive crash. Im on me and use of welcome to the show. United nations says that more than 40 people have been killed in a brutal massacre, and nigeria, motorcyclists are said to have gunned down civilians in villages and towns in the Northeastern State of borno. Un has described it as a heinous and senseless act. No one has admitted carrying out the killings, but the militant Group Boko Haram has attacked the area in recent years. The victims of a gruesome massacre laid to rest in a mass burial. The point reports say the farm workers were attacked by armed insurgents, unmeasured bikes. While they were harvesting rice, someone shot others with their throats cut. It is that there were 6 of us in the bush. Then we headed back into the village. We were shocked when we got there. I got to move, we found the bodies and that was where the main killings took place. Then we went through a nearby village called good though. We met so many people fleeing from our
And this at the moment, and the main aim that netanyahu, how deicing, with these visit to saudi arabia could meet m. B. s, the crown prince. The 1st priority for relief for israel is to get iran put at the top of the agenda for the administration. The same coming administration will have many other domestic issues to deal with. Its not clear whether they will control the senate or not. Its not clear theyll get their agenda through and he wants to put iran really sort of front and center. So this is a way of calling attention to it. Calling attention to iran, if you like, what he would add a regional role. And i think the other aspect of whats going on is to sort of heighten the tensions because the railroad was the main reason i think for the visit to saudi arabia was to agree a few reichen agenda with the saudis, about iraq. Where are we going to stand in iraq . I mean, i think, i mean, this isnt this character tony blinken has previously said about talk about regime change in syria a