isyou think the pacific war america versus japan, it is a clear story. if you think it is a war over control of china or if you think china is the big political question at the heart of this, the outcome is by no means as clear-cut as we usually think it is. one could argue that china wasn't lost in 1949. china has already been lost. there's virtually no american troops in china at the point japan surrenders. i don't want to give too much on a future book project. [laughter] thank you very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] this afternoon, former white from press secretary's ford, reagan, george h.w. bush,

clinton, and obama administrations discuss how the position has changed over time and the many challenges they faced while trying to work for the white house and serve the press. the panelists included marlon nesson, marlon fitzwater, mike mccurry, and robert gibbs. -- 4:25today at 4:00 p.m. eastern time on c-span3's american history tv. >> each week, american history artifacts visits american museums and historic places. on september 11, 1814, british and american naval forces clashed for two and a half hours and a half hours income roland bay near plattsburgh, new york. the battle was the culmination of six days of army and navy conflict. up next, we travel to plattsburgh where the author of "the final invasion: plattsburgh" takes us on a two are of key locations to tell the story. i am at the battle of

plattsburgh museum. it is on the old army post. there has been an army post here ever since the war of 1812. in this museum, the most important item is this painting. it shows the culmination of the battle, when the royal navy had finally closed with the americans, and they fought it out only 300 yards apart for an hour and a half. there were some 90 guns firing at the same time, and the noise disorienting that the sailors were unable to figure out what was going on. they began to load the canons one ball after the other after the other until they had so many cannonballs that the balls rolled out at -- the end of the barrel. cloud of was a huge smoke out on the battlefield,

and at the very end of the naval battle, the british struck their colors. that was seen by the general who was sitting up on the hill, and when he saw that happen there was no point in going on any longer. he recalled the army and the next day, they left and went back to canada. the battle was over. he planned to come and fight again in the spring. the soldiers were never seen here again in the united states. >> you are watching american history tv, 48 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span 3. follow us on twitter for