george cannon, the father of containment, hated the truman doctrine because he thought it would put politicians, it would limit their flexibility. that was, this is what happened. the fall we talked about, the fall of china, and how it haunted lyndon johnson, and he felt the fall of saigon would destroy him. that was probably the truman doctrine. we are called on to defend freedom wherever it is threatened. that is much more broadly ideological and capricious than it should have been. it should have been tailored to american interests. nonetheless, he, in building institutions, he was an admirable figure. having said that, he began the cold war, and there are many downsides to his policy as well. i think fdr was a very effective president as well, obviously, in fighting the second world war. i am cognizant of the fact i am talking about people from 60 or 70 years ago and i wish i could come up with somebody more recent. a statement of more recent vintage. i think james baker was a very able statesman, actually. sort of smart, and very keen to protect american interests. george h.w. bush will pr

haded -- i wish accomplished was a policy of no bundyuse, which mcgeorge and robert mcnamara, george cannoncalled for in the 80's and would have said "we will only use nuclear weapons if they are first used against us," and that is not the u.s. policy now. it remains that in certain situations after conventional attack, the u.s. would respond with nuclear weapons, which i think is the wrong policy. guest: -- host: where did you grow up? guest: northern new york state. , general was a dentist practitioner dentist. my mother was a schoolteacher -- still with us, think progress, and she was a schoolteacher. she -- thank goodness, and she was a schoolteacher. we went to the library most evenings to take out books and it was a very happy time of my life, happy upbringing. host: what was their politics? guest: i would say they were both democrats. my father was more of an fdr democrat, but his favorite president was truman. he got considerably more conservative as he got older. he was a big hundred and the first amendment issue, i think, tended to make him more conservative. my mother remains a k

inadequacies or the merits of obama's folic -- foreign policy but rather i want to talk about the case of george cannon george kennan. it shows the same kind of questions, dilemmas and connections the application of doctrine that are confounding both policymakers and journalists and intellectuals. they are very much present in the case of cannon and his group -- of kennan and his areer. that if we look beneath it there are a lot of questions and inconsistencies there too. in particular i had the occasion to review his recently published diaries a year or two ago and found in those diaries picking my own -- piquing my own interest a side of 10 and that i was not aware of it had not realized the full extent of. i might begin with a riddle about kennan's life. his policies and ideas were utterly central to the foreign relations united states in the 20th century and in many respects he had no real home in its political system. he was nominally a supporter of democrats for the presidency and other offices but he was profoundly conservative in his worldview. this is not the belligerent and cultural populism

cannons on the light house. the officer who led that charge had to report back to his commander, a young general named george washingtonat the walls were too firm to destroy. the cannon balls simply bounced off. this is barry potter. this is battery potter. >> site of the nation's first disappearing gun. huge artillery pieces hidden underground then lifted by steam power into firing position. >> i can see my breath in here. >> yep. it's like a wine cellar. >> it's wild. >> when they brought in the shells, they actually brought them in on carts, on rails, and this is actually a turntable for those rails. so they had a choice where they could go straight ahead here. you can look and see where the grates are. that's where the chambers, where the steam chambers that the guns went up on. >> the cave-like vault housed and proved the weapons used to keep a young nation safe and growing. >> and what were the guns for? >> they were to defend new york harbor. you can see one of the old carts. >> yeah. >> right here. the wheels to the old carts. in order to carry those shells, they're over 900 pounds. >> and it could lob those th

george norris and going back to 19 oh eight led the effort against speaker cannon. to restrict the power of the speaker and decide what legislation comes to the floor. i think what that place again. >> was quÉbec to politics for mom. was it like to campaign during this intense presidential campaign? >> my campaign started the day i got here. my opponent announced that he was going to run a we needed a change, even though i had yet to find my apartment or office. i think they campaigning takes way too much time and effort away from the process of governing, forever but in the house. so how do we do that? i have a rule, and we talked about it and that is you never work against the people you work with. and so i would no more work against a pub republican and a election than the man and on moon. if i'm working with the republican were any republican, i simply simply would not work against them. i think this idea of republican leadership and democratic leadership is supporting their candidates, but in in a way money raised inside in the activity set takes actual member

george didn't discuss either candidate. he called trump a guy who is a loose cannon and took me until third grade to get a third base. he said it was the most fun i would have in years. trump would say, what am i gong gnaw build? a wall. who is gonna bay for it? mexico. we know he will not actually get mexico to pay for it, but it was fun to lighten up. we would cheer our teams were definitely going to win even when they were bad. she said she heard similars of things from scores of voters. >> then why did she only quote george. people like to have fun and cheer slogans at rallies. in the course of telling us why the campaign she worked for she showed us she still doesn't trump voters. >> kennedy this was a woman who was trying to explain how her side followed up. she couldn't help condescending to middle america. >> absolutely. she is trying to found fair and giving a full portrait of these misunderstood people that neither candidate could breakthrough to. then when someone like donald trump, somebody elitists abhore they have to demean these voters who finally decided to vote for an unor that you stocks candidate.

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george hill. feeds to rudy goal bert and dunks it over jahlil okay for. the 76ers up 74-70 in the fourth quarter. experts say carson wentz has cannon for an arm.bout to have a shotgun as a thank you he's getting his linemen a personalized beretta shotgun as a christmas thank you the guns haven't arrived yet still being made. his linemen can't wait to see them. >> if you know carson, carson an outdoorsman, you know, so i think his passion is outdoors and so i think he's sharing that with the guys, you know, i personally i enjoy, upping, i'm passionate about the outdoors and i love to hunt outdoors. i'm looking forward to maybe get to use it. >> when the eagles play the cowboys the regular season finale they'll see a lot of an old friend. cowboys dealing mum reports indicate that dak prescott will only play a series or two then give way to not tony romo but former eagle mark sanchez. dallas clinched home field advantage through the playoffs and first round bye next week much this paper doesn't mean anything to the eagles don't tell that to the members of the eagles defense they prepare whoever quarterbacks the cowbo cowboys. >> first and for mos

i know george norris, actually, and going back -- i hate to do this to you -- but going back to 1908, led the effort against speaker cannon here to restrict the power of the speaker in deciding what legislation comes to the floor. i think we're kind of at that place again. >> going back to politics for a moment, tell us what it was like to campaign during this very intense presidential campaign. what was it like for you on the local level? rep. ashford: my campaign started the day i got here. i mean, my opponent announced that he was going to run and that we needed a change, even though i had yet to find my apartment or my office. and i am being somewhat flip -- i don't mean to be. i think the campaigning is way over -- takes way too much time and effort away from the process of governing for everybody in the house. how do we do that? i think -- i have a rule, actually joe manchin has the same rule in the senate. that is that you never work against the people you work with. so i would no more work against a republican in an election than the man in the middle. if i'm working with a republican, or any republican, i simply