The first lecture in this years series. This year, we are examining dissents opinions. Different aspects thereof. You have already been warned about your cell phones and your apple watches and so forth so i will not repeat that. But you will be in the doghouse if it goes off during the period of our evening. I also want to thank this evening our host, Justice Stephen breyer, who against all odds was able to come and introduce our speaker on the first day of a busy term. Justice breyer is one of the most faithful friends of the society. Whenever we have called on him to help us out, he has shown up and done a wonderful job. Him for taking time away from his busy schedule on first day of term. To impose too much on his time so i will abbreviate the introduction of Justice Breyer. Francisco. In san he received an a. B. From stanford. Aba from mod lang college, oxford and an ll. B. From harvard. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur goldberg of the Supreme Court of the United States d
Eisenhower and George Patton and bradley and how they provided leadership on the allied assaults, especially the european assaults on nazi germany in world war ii. When we heard he was writing his second book to figure out of way to get the museum on the books they need to reread the to have you back. His latest book covers the alliance of the american war effort but this time from the perspective of the president fdr and his war cabinet. The men who were responsible for assembly eng securing the forces of victory and this is a particularly interesting topic from fdr as the commander. So this will be an Exciting Program but before i call him up he didnt just come down here to talk this evening he did extra duty to go above and beyond to work with us through the Leadership Academy who came from around the country to put the headband struggle of world war ii and the 20thcentury and with the shipyards and went to a variety of sites through this city and got them into the swamps with john
Not a place for happiness. Overall, the requirements for invasion of japan was overwhelming air sea superiority and abundant amphibious which we and abundant amphibious which we had in 44, 45. That is among the reasons why the big pacific drive did not get started until 44, 45. We were building lots of ships. Roosevelts global strategy. Although talk building the pacific war, it is evidenced that it was a two front war. Roosevelt always thought about it as a global war. A lot of historians like to compartmentalize it. They anticipated post war relationship with the soviet union. Now, roosevelts strategy, there are different interpretations by it. A lot of people said he had no strategy. He just reacted to events. Others say he was a prisoner of public opinion. Post war critics would say you had virtue kwrous americans looking to win the war. I dont think thats true. And of course there is the cold war arguments that roosevelt should have tried to contain and limit soviet expansion whil
Not a place for happiness. Overall, the requirements for invasion of japan was overwhelming air sea superiority and abundant amphibious which we and abundant amphibious which we had in 44, 45. That is among the reasons why the big pacific drive did not get started until 44, 45. We were building lots of ships. Roosevelts global strategy. Although talk building the pacific war, it is evidenced that it was a two front war. Roosevelt always thought about it as a global war. A lot of historians like to compartmentalize it. They anticipated post war relationship with the soviet union. Now, roosevelts strategy, there are different interpretations by it. A lot of people said he had no strategy. He just reacted to events. Others say he was a prisoner of public opinion. Post war critics would say you had virtue kwrous americans looking to win the war. I dont think thats true. And of course there is the cold war arguments that roosevelt should have tried to contain and limit soviet expansion whil
Military bases here in the United States. More on that in a moment because right now oklahoma is under siege from a severe storm system pap state of emergency declared in that state. People there in places like catoe county already had to hide from tornadoes earlier in the week again are burrowing in storm cellars, braces for what meteorologists say could be the worst day yet this year. Our meteorologist is tracking the storm on radar. We see pictures menacing looking clouds. How bad will it get . Put it this way, jake typically the month of may will give the u. S. One, maybe two tornado outbreaks. This is a tornado in nebraska on wednesday, 48 confirmed tornadoes. Thats an outbreak. Yesterday we had another nine. Today most likely is going to be worse than yesterday an saturday the biggest threat for the entire week. During the month of may, 276 tornadoes on average. So it is the biggest risk. It is the biggest threat for this month. Take a look. I want to mention, this was a slow sta