Where is the mental thing on some of this . You dont want to irritate the some of these major powers. Where does the mental ideas come . The thinking . Far be it for me to get in the mind of what makes spy master things to convince mexico to go to war against the United States and it works, but it becomes, as always has taught us, a great deal of arrogance of people in power and they think arrogant people think they can do whatever they want. They can change the course of history. And sometimes they do. Th thank you very much. Thank you. [ applause ] youve been watching American History tv on cspan3. We want to hear from you. Follow us on Twitter Twitter cspanhistory. Connect with us on facebook at facebook. Com cspanhistory where you can leave comments and check out upcoming programs on our website at cspan. Org history. Every sunday night at 8 p. M. And midnight eastern a special look at the u. S. Presidency learning from leading historians about president s and first ladies. Their p
Michael blanding recounted mr. Smileys career as a dealer and thief. This is about an hour. Thank you all so much for coming here this afternoon. Im not particularly pleased to be giving this talk at the National Archives wonderful repository of old books and manuscripts and the reporting of this book i became a great lover of archives, going to the institutions that smiley ended up taking rare maps out of. I got to see a lot of these old documents myself. Theres nothing like seeing an original document and being able to touch it with your fingers and see it with your own eyes. Its really a Wonderful Service that buildings like this provide and providing access to these materials. So im going to dive right in here with a reading from the e i start with the first sentence from the first chapper so theres nothing you need to know going in. Then im going to talk a little about the strange character Forbes Smiley who i got to know very well over the past three years and then show you some
Union you ever had. The answer to the question is they asked for tons of enriched uranium. Of course the white house agreed because diplomacy carried the day. But groves got in the middle of it. Groves went berserk, as you can expect, went to george marshall. Groves was one person as a onestar general that could walk into George Marshalls office screaming and throwing stuff and not get courtmartialed for it. He went into the office screaming bloody murder. Convinced marshall of the stupid idea. Then convinced stimson this is a really stupid idea. Groves got in the middle, slowed it down and eventually conceded as a compromise to give them one kilogram of enriched uranium. 2. 2 pounds which you cant do a whole lot with. This is like 10 refined uranium, too. You couldnt even make a Nuclear Reactor out of this. You need about 80 , 90 refinement of uranium to make a bomb. So, yes, he was very much they were very much looking to please the soviets because they were allies, but there was no
Pile up in 29 separate crashes down in maryland. Steve all on the busiest travel day of the year yesterday, moving into today. We have Live Team Coverage this morning. Janice dean is tracking the storms path. We start with aishah hasnie. A lot of concerns this morning steve, brian, and ainsley. Travelers left stranded this morning as hundreds of flights are cancelled. Thousands are delayed. It seems like for the rest of the night they are cancelled there is a huge line over there waited for a while. I guess im frustrated. My flight got cancelled different flight going to atlanta and then to cleveland. Its a bit of a detour. Here is the update this morning right now. Nearly 6,000 flights are delayed and nearly 530 are cancelled across the u. S. As the severe winter storm pushed into the northeast. Just looking at flight awares misery map at this hour, San Francisco, boston logan, jfk, those are the top three airports doing the worse right now. Back to you. Steve all right. Thank you, ai
Minneapolis officer and Connecticut native Jamal Mitchell, killed in the line of duty May 30, was recalled by his police chief as a hero who died with honor.