research was dean acheson describing being invited to the white house to meet with truman who told achesons then the single biggest secret in washington, probably in the world. the fact the united states to develop a hydrogen bomb. he told acheson i need you to develop a strategy for me for how we build a policy after this. and acheson says in his memoirs, i went back to the state department and met with the policy planning staff, not the director of policy planning, the entire staff which i think of the time was only seven people but the idea the secretary of state would bring a group of seven people into his confidence in that way was a long, long time ago. i took one lesson from that comment can usually when i was in the pentagon when we were looking at the prospect of liberating kuwait and the military plan at the time was what brent scowcroft declared, it was going to go right across the kuwaiti border, one of the most formal events iraqi. some people on the staff came up with the idea that it's possible to go around kuwait and come around from the western side. i said that's a good i

dean dean acheson as secretary of state wrote a book called present at the creation. the creation of foreign-policy which has been the basis of america's foreign policy ever since. that book basically says a few things that were fundamental. one is that we would be involved in the world. that doesn't mean just with guns but with diplomacy, with our economy. we would promote our values and our ideals and the second american principles of freedom and free enterprise, these things would be promoted around the world. the combination of being involved in the world, promoting our values and linking our arms with our allies, being strong and having a strong military, those three things, being involved, voting our values and being strong in doing so with our allies has been the foundation of our foreign policy. the president campaigned and has adopted a different foreign-policy. hillary clinton says something interesting the other day which as you know was critical of the presence of foreign-policy basically said he doesn't have one. i used to say that during the campaign but

well, the wasp establishment, the protestant establishment--people like john mccloy and dean acheson--people like that, they had many virtues. one of them was a sense of public service. the protestant establishment, the sons of that establishment died in large number in world wars i and ii. they joined the cia and parachuted behind the cold war, the iron curtain lines, at great personal risk. they sometimes did a lot that was not in their personal interest, but they did it because they were s--they were raised with a sense of noblesse oblige. they--to much--you know, you have tremendous privileges, so you have to give back. and that is not a sense, i don't think, the bobos have, because the bobos are an elite trained to think that they're not an elite. they're an establishment trained to be anti-establishmentarian. so i haven't seen the level of national involvement and national service. the other great wasp virtue is reticence, which certainly the bobos don't have. when george bush the elder, ran for president in 1988, his mother, who was then still alive, said, 'george, you're talki

shiploads of for acheson one media basket. >>: we know you will answer our call. i do business and you know i have can get plenty of business to talk about because this is going to have you rolling off of the bed. >>: let's go >>: you know i root for the little guy. he is a linebacker in he's 2 in. tall. he's competing against the big boy in madison. this is a real player in his name is kirsten currency. they made a mistake. watch and get smushed. see if you go between his legs watch this. let's see if they can tackle someone. >>: oh my gosh. because some of these guys catch this matter lifelike it's a real game. >>: this is a huge thing i know you don't play but this is hilarious. >>: i'm not joking but some guys play this like they're on their field the ourselves. they start the game. >>: here's the thing it was a glamorous area so not only do they make it one but two. >>: that's not really in the game is just a glitch right? >>: it is a game at the forty- niners against the cowboys and he's a tight end. they put him on the wrong tree is the entrance to strike h

but i still believe someday we can have that ability to vote for two parties it is wrong to call acheson one basket and wrong to be taken for granted if the republicans are more attentive to the needs of black people more would go for them. >>host: what is it a professor of social thought teaches? >>guest: i was professor of history and american social thought that is the name of the chair that i hold which by the way i knew the siegel's you don't often do the people that set up the chairs i had no idea but after i was recruited i had lunch with those that now have got past unfortunately and she wishes -- she was a great civil rights guy and he advised jfk to set up some of committee for civil rights and jerry dell lot of good things and she said you need to come to penn state i want someone who is a scholar and activist and an example you may argue that we want you here by teach courses in history of american law to undergraduates law students or anybody also called the history of law with social change in which we talk about how a change is made what role do social movements play and w