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So i knew of course that taft succeeded teddy and they would run against each other 1912, but then you always go back and i know scott does too, you want the primary sources, the letters and diaries and private journals for historians so when i found the 400 letters between the two, i realized they become friends when they were in their early 30s and an odd couple, teddy who is marching around everywhere doing wrestling and boxing and taft wayne between 250 and 350 is not doing much wrestling and boxing at that point, but they liked each other and the opposites almost attracted and teddy brings them into his cabinet, he becomes the most important person in his cabinet even though all his life he wanted to be a judge, never a politician, from from that he decides hes the man i want to succeed me, he runs the taft campaign, gives him advice at every moment, the only thing he did not give him a vice was the Campaign Song which i dont ....
Reporter it was all just a horrible hoax. Anchor police say they got the call this morning the caller said he had a room in the library booby trapped and that he had taken a hostage. Anchor police took every precaution, shutting down Commonwealth Avenue for a time while they search for this possible shooter but, yes, it turned out to be a false alarm. 7s steve cooper live on the bu campus with more on what happened there. Kim, first of all just a huge sigh of relief here on the campus tonight if were not just stts parent as well who are following this ordeal earlier today, but police tell us they were on the phone with this guy for about ten minutes and they had every indication that this phone call was the real deal. I was really, really nervous. Sounds of sirens with a heavily armed swat team and tracking dogs all converge zigzagging on Commonwealth Avenue at the ....
What did general dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . Its puzzling to me, anyway, that perhaps the most important decision of the 20th century did not bequeath to history and posterity a quote to mark the occasion, something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like macarthurs vow to the people of the philippines, i shall return. The stakes of the invasion certainly merited verbal splendor, if not eloquence, if the the overlord operation had failed the allies might never have won the war and yet eyewitnesses to eisenhowers great moment of decisions could not agree on what he said and as for eisenhower he could not even agree with himself. He related five versions of his fateful words to journalists and biographers over the years that perhaps even more mysteriously he wrote five different versions of the statement in a 1964 article commemorating the 20th anniversary of dday. To put those words, whatever they might have be ....
I want to talk to you this morning a dday mystery that persists despite the millions of words written about normandy. What did dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . It is puzzling to me that the most important decision of the 20th century did not deqeev to a memorable quote to mark the occasion. Something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like douglas mccar arthurs i shall return. If the overloord operation fails the allies might never have won the war. Eisenhowers decision could not agree on what he said and eisenhower could not agree with himself. He related five versions of his faithful words to journalists over the years. More mysteryousley he wrote five different versions of the statement. Well, to put those words whatever they may have been in context, the high drama leading up to the invasion wont bear repeating. All of the elements for the dday attack was in place. More than 150,000 men 12,000 aircraft, 7,000 s ....
I want to talk about an elusive dday mystery that exists. Despite the millions of words written about the allied invasion about normandy, june 6, 1944. What did general dwight d. Eisenhower say when he gave the final order to launch the attack . Its puzzling to me, anyway, that perhaps the most important decision of the 20th century did not bequeath to history and posterity a quote to mark the occasion, something to live up to the magnitude of ikes decision. Something iconic like general Douglas Macarthurs vow to the people of the philippines, i shall return. The stakes of the invasion certainly merited verbal splendor, if not eloquence, if the overlord operation had failed the allies might never have won the war and yet eyewitnesses to eisenhowers great moment of decision could not agree on what he said. And as for eisenhower, he could not even agree with himself. He related five versions of his fateful words to journalists a ....