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and he was. with albert spier and others in paris six weeks almost to the day in june of 1940. this gentleman here is one of america s first spies. before the second world war there was no foreign intelligence service, the americans you guys didn t have a foreign intelligence service. that was the job of people who worked for the state department donald costar was a princeton graduate in 1929, a volunteer ambulanceman working in normandy during the blitzkrieg and he wrote a detailed story about the blitzkrieg for readers digest and he wrote about a terrifying. he was working for the americans and recording the impact and the ferocity of the blitzkrieg and he found his way to paris in early july of 1940, was dropped off at the hotel bristol by none other than george canon who became a great american statesman and then found his way to the american hospital of paris where he went to the office of dr. summer in jackson and said to dr. sumner jackson i need to hide for a ....
but when the cold war ended and particularly when the war in terror began, it moved so drastically away from focus on russia that i think it lost its ability to conduct operations even in conducting basic analytical work about it. there is still very good people there who deal with russian and who are experts in russia. but it s drastically shrunk from what it was. and i think now that russia is seen as much more of a threat over the last couple of years, particularly because of its activity military activities in ukraine, is that there will be some respectificati firectif thereby more effort and more personnel devoted to trying to understand russia. did you have something? just really quickly, you know it takes time and as mark said, if you focus on it now, it takes years to develop expertise and if you are talking about human intelligence penetrating russia and putin s inner circle so it will take a while. even if they re doing it now. thank you very much, tha ....
museums and historic places. next, we traveled to new orleans to visit the national world war ii museum and learn about their road to berlin exhibit. this is the first of a two-part program. mr. huxen: hello, my name is keith huxen, and i am senior director of research and history here at the national world war ii museum in new orleans. we are standing in the road to berlin exhibit, which opened in december 2014 after years of development. our mission is to tell the american experience in world war ii, why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today. the building we are in tells what i call the war part of the series. so here we are in the first gallery of road to berlin and behind me, you will see the large portraits of the political leaders of the axis and allied powers, a lineup, if you will, of the two sides that were going to engage in this great struggle. when our visitors arrive in this gallery, we believe that they will know that pearl harbor has alre ....
frustrated that people don t understand the fabulousness in his strategy, don t you get it, he was defensive, he was not he was not someone who could explain to you. there s a great absence when it comes to obama and isis and it is an absence of how he thinks about isis, not just what to do about it, what your strategy supposedly is but how should we think about it, how should we view it, what kind of threat is it, how should we be prepare to go meet that threat, what are the possibilities, he doesn t speak about any of those things, which makes you wonder, my god, is he not speak because he doesn t want to actually share his thoughts which makes everybody uneasy. and now there s, you know, there s this and now there s a president who is acting less like a presence and an absence. it does no good. it was very bad leadership the past week. we are going to have to leave it at at. the name of the book the time of our lives. peggy noonan, thank you. is there a nonfi ....
winston groom will talk and rear about half an hour and then take questions for 15 or 20 minutes more. we encourage questions, we just need you to ask them from the microphone over here both so everyone can be involved and also for our c-span awed yes, sir. it s great to audience. it s great to welcome kin son bloom winston bloom back to washington d.c. histories including a storm in flanders, shiloh: 1862 and tonight s book, the generals. one of winston groom s gifts is his ability to flesh out the characters of these three influential but different leaders, giving us insights regarding how their experiences shaped their personalities and choices in the second world war. another gift is style, so please welcome winston groom. [applause] first, i d like to thank everybody for coming out to hear me on this lovely saturday afternoon in washington d.c. i have been on a book tour now for a couple of weeks. i ve learned something about what people want to know. one ....