Had a broad streak of paranoia and mistrustful, and that sometimes worked against the instruments of government like the state department. In the end he ruined of self by bragging about his own catastrophic downfall in the watergate scandal of 1972 to 74. We are going to look at the good and bad side of the nixon presidency, and his partnership with National Security adviser kissinger. Im going to share this screens we can look at powerpoint pictures as we go through the sequence. First of all, here is nixon himself, he would be back in 1913 in california, grown up in a lower middle class family in california, went to the local college there. He graduated and went to Duke University law school and this was the worst years of the great depression, the mid 19 thirties. During the Second World War he joined the u. S. Navy, how the left you can see the photo of him as a young navy officer, he served with distinction, as a logistics expert getting the right equipment to the right place at t
Walter borneman. His biography as well as all the other speaker biographies are in your program. Hes author of books including the study of civil leadership and we had him here last july to speak on his book of General Macarthur. Haeds a great scholar and doing some really cutting edge stuff on the pacific war. At this time walter borneman. Good morning. Thank you, chris. You know its a pleasure to be here. And when i was invited by criss and jim to speak about the battle of midway i said, gosh, im not really a midway expert. And they said thats okay, we have the experts coming. What we want you to do is set the table. And thats what im going to indeed do this morning, set the table of how we got to midway. I want to go through a few landmark things in terms of japans relations with the world 50 years prior to midway. And then were also going to talk about based on my book the admiral the leadership that appears at midway. And finally were going to do an Operational History of what goe
Walter borneman. His biography as well as all the other speaker biographies are in your program. Hes author of books including the study of civil leadership and we had him here last july to speak on his book of General Macarthur. Haeds a great scholar and doing some really cutting edge stuff on the pacific war. At this time walter borneman. Good morning. Thank you, chris. You know its a pleasure to be here. And when i was invited by criss and jim to speak about the battle of midway i said, gosh, im not really a midway expert. And they said thats okay, we have the experts coming. What we want you to do is set the table. And thats what im going to indeed do this morning, set the table of how we got to midway. I want to go through a few landmark things in terms of japans relations with the world 50 years prior to midway. And then were also going to talk about based on my book the admiral the leadership that appears at midway. And finally were going to do an Operational History of what goe
Walter borneman. His biography as well as all the other speaker biographies are in your program. Hes author of books including the study of civil leadership and we had him here last july to speak on his book of General Macarthur. Haeds a great scholar and doing some really cutting edge stuff on the pacific war. At this time walter borneman. Good morning. Thank you, chris. You know its a pleasure to be here. And when i was invited by criss and jim to speak about the battle of midway i said, gosh, im not really a midway expert. And they said thats okay, we have the experts coming. What we want you to do is set the table. And thats what im going to indeed do this morning, set the table of how we got to midway. I want to go through a few landmark things in terms of japans relations with the world 50 years prior to midway. And then were also going to talk about based on my book the admiral the leadership that appears at midway. And finally were going to do an Operational History of what goe
Walter borneman. His biography as well as all the other speaker biographies are in your program. Hes author of books including the study of civil leadership and we had him here last july to speak on his book of General Macarthur. Haeds a great scholar and doing some really cutting edge stuff on the pacific war. At this time walter borneman. Good morning. Thank you, chris. You know its a pleasure to be here. And when i was invited by criss and jim to speak about the battle of midway i said, gosh, im not really a midway expert. And they said thats okay, we have the experts coming. What we want you to do is set the table. And thats what im going to indeed do this morning, set the table of how we got to midway. I want to go through a few landmark things in terms of japans relations with the world 50 years prior to midway. And then were also going to talk about based on my book the admiral the leadership that appears at midway. And finally were going to do an Operational History of what goe