Were there, literally right in the middle of it about where we were and where we were going to end up? the reason that i went back there at that time was because it was the obama surge, right, which president biden was opposed to, which he said in his speech today, reminded everybody he was opposed to that and with hundreds of thousands of troops flooded back into afghanistan, the concept was one last push will give them the best chance to be able to stand up a sustainable government military and internal security force. We will do the best that they can and then they will stand alone. This is everything we can do. And the idea was that the surge would happen, you kind of set it and leave. And to see what happened. Of course setting it left it set for another eight years before anything after the surge ended, before the troops finally left. The argument was the same the whole time, which is that, you know, likely even if america does almost infinite resource devotion to this problem, w
And it s also about music. And music is one of the most universal expressions. You can listen to a song with which you might disagree more congenially and more profitably then you could ever listen to a speech about something with which you disagree. Absolutely, i you know. Assures the the patriots were were carrying their swords and their guns they were carrying their pins and they were carrying their pros and they were carrying their poetry alone with them to move this revolution forward and to our country forward. Henry david thoreau once wrote when i hear music i fear no danger. I m invulnerable. I see no foe and i m related to the earliest times and to the latest. And that pretty much sums up. I think what we wanted to write about when we sat down down to write this book. Yeah. Throw yeah throw. Until about thrice until about three weeks ago mcgraw thought thoreau was a running back for lsu. So you are here at a inflection point. In the life. He s the reason we won the national ch
of the research challenges i faced, particularly in an academic community, it might be worth describing some of the challenges of writing the book. i think also, they illuminate a bit about kennedy and eisenhower . and lastly i wanted to talk about kennedy and eisenhower, the two main stars of the book. telling you a little bit about then, the different challenges they had during this transition period and then the transition itself, which i see is a drama that unfolded since in four or five main acts. so i will go through that and would be glad to take any questions or comments you might have. my wife mindy and i were talking this morning and calling a recalling a couple of months ago, i spoke about this book in washington, d.c. at an event hosted by the u.s. senate library. it s this nice event at the capitol visitor center and a good audience and towards the end, a young gentleman raised his hand and said he worked at the u.s. senate gift shop and that they were carrying
came to do this show you heard about the hacking of twitter, the fact that trump asked out onto facebook get his message out. facebook got a lot of criticism for a lot of things over the years, and actually wrote a column recently questioning why mark zuckerberg has not fact check the president. tell us your take on this. what is this relationship between facebook and the white house, between facebook and free speech? i m going to throw you a big question to launch you off track you first, thank you for doing this. it is good to connect with you again to some virtual see. like a lot of things you can t just keys out in the one problem of facebook from its dna and its origins. in the case of trump, obviously he wasn t a factor in the early days. it wasn t something they talked about in the dorm room when they started it up by the time trump campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook. it was lathered on top of sort of the messy way they dealt with controver
depth. the next three hours shall see many of the authors who appeared on the program. we were also joined by an author, cornell west and the heads of simon & schuster and rectory publishing. there is something there is still something that brings tears to my eyes. i hope it won t do it now. on the seventh of december, or the eighth of december 1941, i went to what you would call a problem, an event, you know. i was the equivalent of a freshman at the university. i came home atoc 2:00 o clock at night, the light was on. excuse me. [inaudible] americas and the war. yes. and why did that touch you so much? to act because we knew it was going to lose it. would that mean for you and hungry? i did not cry then. how old were you? eighteen? i was 18 yes. with that interview with the late author john lucas, in-depth was born 20 years ago. 2000 leading nonfiction fiction authors of our time have appeared on in-depth. freeman, colton walker, bob woodward, george well, jus