our first speaker will be kathryn clinton who really needs no introduction. she has chaired -- she is the chaired professor of u.s. history at belfast. she did her graduate work with jim. she is a pioneer in many areas and people particularly of my generation members of pioneer in women's history, especially southern women's history and her reaching out beyond the profession to bring history to all sorts of groups, including children. kathryn? >> thank you. thanks very much. >> we're going to have a powerpoint here. >> thank you for your indulgence. those who know jim mcpherson know he's not in favor of relying on technology. but i thought on this one occasion he might be indulgent because i did conspire with his life partner, pat, to try and present some unknown sides of mcpherson which are best demonstrated visually. so this kind gentleman has volunteered from the office, from the audience. okay. there we go. we are pleased to be here to honor the private man and the public historian. as we were given only a brief time to sum up the legendary career of a ma

pat could have provided to kathryn clinton that photograph of you and me wearing skirts in israel. i can just see the title. jim mcpherson, cross dresser. so in that vein i have entitled my talk jim mcpherson, closet military historian. although jim began his career as an abolitionist historian, his greatest contributions i think are to the field of military history, not that his early career was fraught with failure, mind you. it did get him tenure at princeton. but i think it in is the area of military history that he has made the most lasting contributions. so let me make a few points about some of his scholarship. first of all, of course, "battle cry freedom." 20 years later it is still the single finest volume on the civil war, bar none, no competition. it's an extraordinary exploration into politics, military, diplomatic, cultural, racial, social history. it's an incredible achievement. jim once told me that he was off on math. but if you ever look at the economics and financing of the war, they are absolutely phenomenal. it's a truly extraordinary achievement. i want to focu

clinton. >> so dana, two things, what do you think of kathryn's reporting.that just broke? >> dana: she is a great reporter. she wrote a book about terrorism and she knows her stuff and she is very serious. in addition to that, other serious people in washington have now said fox's reporting should no longer be ignored. that was david ignacious, columnist of the post. in addition to that, today, foreign policy magazine, which is a well regarded magazine in washington, d.c., long history, they had two people. harold duron barbuh and jerone moulasasa. i'm sorry if i'm not pronouncing that right. they had gone to dubai. dubai based television to the compound to do reporting and they found in the compound stuff that our own f.b.i. didn't find. so at this point, i think that it was jake tapper of abc news wrote there is a drip, drip, drip about this. the administration set themselves up for this by blaming video in the first place. i actually am going to complain. i don't think romney brought this up enough. if he had, other reporters would have paid attention ea

kathryn bigelow access to classified information and planned to release it a month before the election. filmmakers say the movie has no political agenda and will be released in december. >>> secretary of state hillary clintonook a break from a tour to africa to meet with nelson mandela. clinton visited the former south african president in his home yesterday. mandela celebrated his 94th birthday last month. >>> also in south africa, a statue to commemorate 50 years since mandela was arrested was unveiled over the weekend. it's made of 50 steel columns to represent his imprisonment. from a certain angle, his image comes into focus. mandela was incarcerated for 27 years. >>> coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," a preview of arizona shooting suspect jared loughner's court appearance today and a possible plea deal. i'm terrell brown. this is the "cbs morning news." this is the "cbs morning news." ñ try this. it's oikos greek yogurt. it's creamy, nonfat, and it turns the next person you see into john stamos for five seconds. honey! i think i'm getting burned! heh! eat. ♪ tastes pretty good, huh? ♪ best yogurt ever. yeah! [ men grunting ] open! [ male announcer ] dannon oikos berry flavors beat

kathryn. the board's report takes a clear look at serious systemic problems. problems which are unacceptable. problems for which as secretary clinton has said we take responsibility and problems which we have already begun to fix. before tom walks you through what you're doing to implement fully all of the board's recommendations, i would like to add a few words based on my own experiences as a career diplomat in the field. i have been a very proud member of the foreign service for more than 30 years, and i have had the honor of serving as the chief of missions overseas. i know that diplomacy by its very nature must sometimes be practiced in dangerous places and citric clinton has said our diplomats cannot work in bunkers and do their jobs. when america is absent, there are consequences to reader interests suffer and our security at home is threatened. chris stevens understood that as well as anyone. chris also knew that every chief of mission has the responsibility to ensure the best possible security and report for the people. as the senior officials here in washington, we share that profound responsibility. we have to constantly