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left in this discussion with edward lengel, the author of "thunder and flames" americans in the crucible of combat, 1917 and 1918. talking about the firstmerican edge gaugements in world war i. and in this hour of washington journal. special line this morn for active duty and veterans, 202-748-8002. other lines are for those in the eastern and central time zones and mountain and pacific. ken is a veteran in louisiana. ken, good morning. >> caller: how are you all? >> good morning. >> caller: i was looking at the previous program, where they were discussing the monuments, the american monuments to world war i. and they were all dedicated in the 1920s and the 1930s. i was wondering if the nazis made any attempt to destroy these monuments? >> that's an excellent question. most of the monuments the germans left in world war ii. the germans left as they were. there were a couple of exceptions. there was a monument to the first americans killed in action at bethel mont. that the germans blew up. because in the inscription on the monument, it made some reference to german imperialism or the evil of the german cause in world war i. the germans

of "thunder and flames. americans and the crucible of combat 1917 and 1918. ." we're talking about the firstrican major engagements in world war i and this hour of "the washington journal," you're also seeing us on c-span3's american history tv and special lines for active duty and veterans, 202-748-8002 is that number and otherwise the lines for the eastern and central time zones and pacific time zones. ken is a veteran from louisiana. good morning. >> how are you all? >> good morning. i was looking at the previous program where they were discussing the monuments, the american monuments to world war i and they were all dedicated in the 1920s and the 1930s. i was wondering if the nazis made any attempts to destroy these monuments? that's an excellent question. most monuments and the germans left in world war ii. the germans left as they were. there were a couple of exceptions and there was a monument to the first americans killed in action in a different sector of the front. the first division that the germans blew up because in the inscription on the monument it made rerns to the imperialis

americans died, were wounded or went missing in the area. next, edward lengel, author of thunder and flames: americans in the crucible of combat, 1917- 1918. first, we visit the aisne-marne american cemetery and hear about the resting place of many of the american soldiers who lost their lives in france during world war i. >> i say, with visitors, when they walk through the gate here, by how beautiful and well- maintained it is. a lot of work goes into it. there is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes. this site is maintained by the u.s. government, actually the american battle monument commission, an independent agency of the executive branch. there is one american manager on site here. there is another american superintendent who maintains our sister site, here in the area. i think it is important for american visitors to realize this is their taxpayer dollars at work, overseas, to tell what took place here with the memory of the fallen. so again, it is not just the battle of belleau wood. that is what many people are probably surprised to understand. here at the aisne-marne, we are on the battlefield where primary -- where primarily u

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first world war. this is a lovely depiction of an american eagle. also what we see is examples of this beautiful embroidery of french women by the first world war. this is a comb case and has an interesting aviation theme. it has airplanes protecting paris and this is the kind of thing women would create to make money to chemohouse and home together while their men were away at the war so another massive mobilization of effort in terms of technology and military but also the impact of the war on civilians in daily life. one of the most sobering and challenging aspects is the human cost of war. in this section of the exhibition, we have examples of drawings and paintings that looked at military casualties, prisoners of war and the soldiers by the millions made during the first world war. this is a simple drawing but one of the more powerful ones called his bunkie where a soldier is coming to loss of a comrade in arms. one of the most famous paintings in the aef collection is called on the wire, another harvey dunn painting and like the sentry, this is

decoratively towards elements of his life and telling a story that is decorative, historical and personal. >> i want to ask you both, this is two african-american artists painting the first african-american president and first lady. just that in itself, i don't know how you top that really. amy, you are a newcomer to the world of public art, how did it feel for you? >> for me, you know, it was something that i had never even dreamed of. so to find myself here, it's just really unbelievable. i can't even put it into words. i feel like i'm going to take some time and look back on it and just process everything that's happened thus far. >> i wonder after being at this for such a long time, kehinde, that you are in a special moment now and the fact that you two were chosen and that you did this, it's not just political but artistic. >> i would say everything we do embodied with political import. but we can't not recognize the important significance of represe representative of art. there is an incredible responsibility in terms of how we choose to celebrate this moment and how they chose to choose us and in terms of what it means. they are signaling to the rest of the world

we have about a year and a half of this presidency i'm getting a pretty good idea what america first means in the mind of donald trump and i know be very well what american exceptionalism is and i'm not a big proponent of it. are is donald trump incompatible with his american firsts policies with washington's insistence. and digging their heels in very deep that american exceptionalism must be maintained go ahead david in charlottesville. i guess the short answer is no i don't see it look at what donald trump does in terms of foreign policy in terms of continuing u.s. imperialism and he is dropping more bombs he is building more bases he is getting more military spending out of congress demanding more of military spending out of europe shipping weapons to more places including ukraine continuing to insist on the u.s. right to do what it wants in places like ukraine and nicaragua and around the world he's not switching policies allowing the people of afghanistan or nicaragua or anywhere else to decide their own fate i mean the changes are all rhetorical and and in terms of mannerisms and style people in. people abroad outside the united states who see him

he already made history, whether or not he becomes the governor of florida -- he would be the first african-american governor, he is the first african-american gubernatorial candidate of a major party. go back in time and talk about how dream defenders formed and your work with andrew gillum, how andrew gillum rose up through the ranks, coming home to his state of florida to organize. >> amy, if you don't mind, i would like to go back to 2003. i met andrew gillum while i was a student leader in college. i wound up being student body president. andrew gillum had also run become the end is commissioner in tallahassee at that point. it was in 2003 after s seeing posters of millions of people who had dissented on tallahassee led by andrew gillum as a student leader in a march for affirmative action that i really learned the role as a student leader at florida and them, not one that is just concerned with the campus, but you're concerned with the lives of the people of the state of florida. andrew taught me that in 2003. in 2 -- in 2012 when we started this organization, it is really with a model of what

american way on our own sector of the front. in practice, pershing and other americans this is the first talk i've given to this sound track of horses neighing in the background, i love it. pershing had to compromise. in the spring of 1918, he had to break up american divisions and american units into smaller formations and embed them on french and british fronts on french and british command. it's important to mind. in practice, we are fighting under french and british command for much of the war. it really is only in the fall that we begin to fully command our own operations. next slide. the marines, as i was mentioning, are the first, and, yes, i know the army was involved in bella wood as well, the american army brigade, 2nd division, 3rd regiment, 2nd division, were involved in bella wood but bella wood was primarily a marine operation. the marines can right. ly say they are the first branch of the united states service to experience modern warfare. outside north america. in bella wood, they acquire this reputation as being devil dogs because of the way they fight. it's a very complicated story. i could say much about bella woo

buckley said that one of the greatest moments of his entire life was when he was at the great american firstommittee rally in new york city with john flynn and charles lindbergh , and life could offer no higher pleasure than that. the pageantry of the american flag and the people gathered of one accord. this is where the populism comes in. i have been reading bill gossen's latest book called anti-pluralism, which in many ways is about the dangers of populism that is here in the united states, but abroad as well. populism really has, as its basic conception, that the people are unitary, one, incorrect. they are ever forded by elites. the people by definition cannot be wrong, so if something happens that is bad, it must be the fault of elites. as to buckley was very much the story of world war ii. the american people do not want to enter into this conflict as he saw it. it's true, the poll showed 70 to 80% opposition to intervention in world war ii, unless the united states was itself attacked before the war. and, from this buckley drew the lesson that people had to be manipulated into the war

american way, in our own sector of the front. in practice, john pershing and other americans, this is the first talk i have given to the soundtrack of horses in the background, i love it. john pershing had to compromise. in the spring of 1918, he had to break up american divisions and units into smaller formations and embed them on french and british fronts under french and british command. keep that in mind. in practice, we are fighting under french and british command. for much of the war it is only in the fall that we begin to fully command our own operations. next slide. the marines, as i was mentioning, are the first -- i know the army was involved, as well, the american army brigade, the seventh regiment, deeply bellved in bella would -- lawood but it was primarily a marine operation. june of 1918, the marines can say right the lease so that they are the first branch of the united states service to experience modern warfare outside of north america. in belleau wood, they acquired a reputation as devil dogs because of how they fight. it is a very complicated story. i could say a lot about this fight. it suffices to say, one

first world war. this one is a lovely depiction of an american eagle. also what we see is examples of this beautiful embroidery by french women during the first world war. this is a comb case and has an interesting aviation theme. it has airplanes protecting paris. this is an example of the kind of thing that women would create to make some money to keep house and home together while their men were away at the war. another aspect of this massive mobilization of effort not only in terms of the technology and the military aspect but also the impact of the war on civilians in daily life. one of the most sobering and challenging aspects of telling any story about war or military conflict is the human cost of war. in this section of the exhibition we have examples of drawings and paintings that look at the military casualties, prisoners of war and the ultimate sacrifice that soldiers made during the first world war. this is a fairly simple drawing, perhaps one of the more powerful ones where you have a soldier who is coming to terms with the loss of a conrad

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, any man could break down so the screening was ineffective. >> the trauma of war resulted in the first creation of the american psychiatry apparatus. in this imperfect system, ultimately, did it represent a first step toward the military psychiatry apparatus that we see today? and the same thing can be said of the psychiatrists' views. >> thank you, i look forward to your questions. [ applause ]. >> thank you. >> do we have any questions from our audience? [ question inaudible ]. anything that happened to them, they have been treated? >> that's a really good question. the psychiatrists were interested in this themselves. they conduct add study in 1919 and conduct add second study again in 1924 of the soldiers that they had sent home from base hospital 117. and their early rec nation -- recognition showed that in 1919, they thawed that they believe that shell -- they thought that the shell shock can be cured when the map left battle because the war was done. and they saw some improvements in some these men immediately but it had only been a year since the war had ended. they were willing to attribute some of th

tweet about it yesterday in terms of once again denouncing hatred and violence, specifically going back to charlottesville. as an african-american, as an american first of all, i think the president did the right thing. i think it's disingenuous for anyone to go ahead and say that, oh, he used a script or that somebody wrote for him. i've had the honor of working in a white house, and i know for a fact that all presidents utilize things written for them. when there's something that's important that they want to get out, it is normally a typed out and put on a teleprompter. >> he shouldn't have to type out a statement to condemn white supremacists. that's the point here. the response, whether it was not immediate or not matters. most people, good and decent americans, don't need someone or an adviser to come in and craft a statement to condemn white supremacists, neo-nazis. that's the problem here. so the fact that it was initially scripted -- and yes, presidents do work with that, but something as innately simple as denouncing hatred and racism like this shouldn't require that level of advisers. >> he worked off the script, didn't he? he added the bo

american divisions income involved. marines continued to be involved. next slide. autumn of 1918, we launched two major offenses. the americans firstrmy has been formed in august of 1918. offensive launched an subject 12 -- september 12 that's quite successful in wiping out a german held salient and bird on. then we launch the offensive on september 26, 1918. was, and remains the largest and bloodiest battle in the history of our nation. if you go to museums, you go to libraries, you find almost no reference to them. look at documentaries like the recent documentary that came out on pbs. had many qualities, but there was very little reference to them as argon. i've been in major american museums that will follow american participation in the war and don't even mention them as argon. get a sense of perspective here. in the first three weeks of the -- september 26 to mid october, 1918, about 26,000 americans are killed in three weeks, which is more than half of the combat did in korea, and about half that the combat did in vietnam, in three weeks. this is an important battle. this is a defining battle in the history of our nation. an

of america the first as an antithesis to liberal internationalism. but as was just said what about the liberal state which conservatives of all parts including populace, american first, grassroots conservatives have an ambivalent relationship with. what do they think about the security? the fact that eisenhower warned about it said there is a lot of complexities and how this does not fall into straight-line. >>in the paper about mccarthyism it is only hoover mentioned. that is consistent with the conclusion that mccarthy ought to be called hoover is him since hoover was the motivating force. one thing that i got out of buckley's paper, buckley and his brother-in-law co-authored a defense of mccarthy. they were heavily under the influence of wilmore kendall who believe that the founding -- founding fathers did not intend to pass the bill of rights particularly the first amendment. what we needed was a community that could coerce conformity to its norms. buckley loved hoover because he saw hoover doing now. particularly of hoover's relationship to the civil rights movement. with the acting of racism i would not say so but he did not want the status quo to be dis

americans died, were wounded or went missing in the area. next, edward lengel, author of thunder and flames: americans in the crucible of combat, 1917- 1918. firstresting place of many of the american soldiers who lost their lives in france during world war i. >> i say, with visitors, when they walk through the gate here, by how beautiful and well- maintained it is. a lot of work goes into it. there is a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes. this site is maintained by the u.s. government, actually the american battle monument commission, an independent agency of the executive branch. there is one american manager on site here. there is

we have about a year and a half of this presidency i'm getting a pretty good idea what america first means in the mind of donald trump and i know very well what american exceptionalism is and i'm i'm not a big proponent of it. are is donald trump incompatible with his american firsts policies with washington's insistence. and digging their heels in very deep that american exceptionalism must be maintained go ahead david in charlottesville. i guess the short answer is no i don't see it i look at what donald trump does in terms of foreign policy in terms of continuing. u.s. imperialism and he is dropping more bombs he is building more bases he is getting more military spending out of congress demanding more military spending out of europe shipping weapons to more places including ukraine continuing to insist on the us right to do what it wants in places like ukraine and nicaragua and around the world he's not switching policies allowing the people of afghanistan or nicaragua or anywhere else to decide their own fate i mean the changes are all rhetorical and and in terms of mannerisms and style people in. people abroad outside the united states who see h

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. >>> up next on american artifacts, we travel to northeastern france to trace the steps of american soldiers during the spring and early summer of 1918. but first, a portion of a 1960 u.s. army film that describes the military situation at the time. >> the germans rolled across the defenses and the aine river in a driving relentless force which struck panic into the french nation. in three days, the german tide had reached the river and was less than 40 miles from paris. the second and third u.s. divisions were moved into the area around chateau-thierry. the third division, in its battle for the crossings, wrote one of the most brilliant pages of our military annals. one of its regiments earned the proud designation, rock of the marnes. the second division began pushing the germans back. u.s. marines, fighting with the second division, reclaimed important ground in a fierce contest known to history now as the battle of belleau wood. >> american history tv visited key monuments, battlefields, and cemeteries in northeastern france with historian mitchell yockelson. to begin the story, we visit the chateau-thierry monument about 60 miles from pari