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because people need to hear what you have to say. i take a lot of encouragement. i for years have been influenced, decades by an essay written by bayard rosman called from protest to politics and i hear in what you are saying that beginning of what might be a politics in egypt which means organization which means discussion, which means building from the ground up and finding ways of learning how to resolve differences. that s how power gets shifted so thank you very much. thank you c-span for being here. books will be signed. just line up over here and watch c-span on windows will appear and you can hear it again and i invite others to watch with you. thank you all for coming. thank you so much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next encore booknotes. from 1997 thomas west discusses his book on the teaching of history particularly with regard for how the founding fathers are portrayed today. this is about an hour. c-span: professor thomas g. west, in your book in the af

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serious question, what would it be? well, he did not like strangers. he did not like the press. i would ask him about his religious beliefs, or lack thereof. i found that fascinating. he was a victorian man. he made himself into a classical man. he had he lived his life in accordance with a precursor to the christian ethic that you find in plato and greek philosophers. this godless ethic. i found that fascinating. i would enjoy talking with him about that. and then let s see. the second front. i would like to have a final word, because we americans have set him up with at one point, almost cowardly in his aversion to the second front. what does that mean second front? the push from general marshall to go to normandy. 1942, the sooner the better. franklin roosevelt, general marshall. we have to fight somewhere. it is an election year. churchill pushed back in 1942 and 1943. the normandy invasion came in 1944. for that, he put it forward for roosevelt and stalin m

Transcripts For CSPAN Q A 20121224

i found that fascinating. he was a victorian man. he made himself into a classical man. he lived his life in accordance with a precursor to the christian ethic that you find in plato and greek philosophers. this godless ethic. i found that fascinating. i would enjoy talking with him about that. and then let s see. the second front. i would like to have a final word, because we americans have set him up with at one point, almost cowardly in his aversion to the second front. what does that mean second front? the push from general marshall to go to normandy. 1942, the sooner the better. franklin roosevelt, general marshall. we have to fight somewhere. it is an election year. churchill pushed back in 1942 and 1943. the normandy invasion came in 1944. for that, he put it forward for roosevelt and stalin most definitively. i would like to hear him tell me in his own words. in his memoirs, 10 years later writing these, he avoids writing about the squabbles . he does not ev

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