avril was cultured and delicate.iefly as a teenager, she sat for lautrec and commissioned posters from him. he allowed her a privacy absent in his depictions of other stars-- focusing on her as a fragile and enigmatic personality rather than a commodity to be packaged. his poster for the divan japonais, a café-concert, placed avril in profile beside the writer edouard dujardin. and at the top-- a playful allusion to another star recognizable to parisians by her long gloves: yvette guilbert. she made her name with witty monologues-- half spoken, half sung and often risqué. in a simple, elegant image-- allowing her trademark black gloves to convey her celebrity. lautrec also painted a series of pictures of the more private world of parisian brothels. dotted around the city, discreet entrances opened into a hidden world that had been a part of french life for centuries. upscale brothels known as maisons closes-- closed houses-- were housed in well-appointed buildings. in the 1890s, toulouse-lautrec was an occasional cus

avril was cultured and delicate.iefly as a teenager, she sat for lautrec and commissioned posters from him. he allowed her a privacy absent in his depictions of other stars-- focusing on her as a fragile and enigmatic personality rather than a commodity to be packaged. his poster for the divan japonais, a café-concert, placed avril in profile beside the writer edouard dujardin. and at the top-- a playful allusion to another star recognizable to parisians by her long gloves: yvette guilbert. she made her name with witty monologues-- half spoken, half sung and often risqué. in a simple, elegant image-- allowing her trademark black gloves to convey her celebrity. lautrec also painted a series of pictures of the more private world of parisian brothels. dotted around the city, discreet entrances opened into a hidden world that had been a part of french life for centuries. upscale brothels known as maisons closes-- closed houses-- were housed in well-appointed buildings. in the 1890s, toulouse-lautrec was an occasional cus

meets pamela churchill who is -- who's randolph's wife and who eventually runs off with avril harriman and becomes the american ambassador in paris at the end of her life. so he meets -- in this kind of milieu, that's where he meets the head of oss for europe. third richest woman in the rat united states. he is the son of an ambassador. and he's -- you know, a genalvi. loves the finer things in life. they run into each other in london and after they ran into each other, talk about fan mail, bruce goac that he had just met ngquote, patriarch cal, with his physique, much like god, as painted by michelangelo. here's a ernest as he's getting ready to go to europe. he's grown this beard by the way because of irritation from the sun during the war patrols on pilar. so ernest eventually shaves his beard. and goes to europe. he is there as a war correspondent. he is driving around the battlefie battlefield, looking for excitement. ernest gets a jeep from the army and he gets a private. and that's the -- you know, that sort of task force hemingway. and he's going around looking for good stories

meets pamela churchill who's randol randolph's wife and who runs off with avril. so he meets -- in this kind of area that's where he meets bruce who is the head of oss for europe. bruce is kind of an interesting guy. he's a virginia aristocrat. he has married the second or third richest woman in the united states. he is the son of an ambassador. and he's -- you know, general loves the finer things in life. and one of the things that he comes to really love is ernest. they run into each other in london. after they ran into each other, talk about fan mail. bruce goes back and writes in his diary that he had just met hemingway and remembers him as quote, patriarchal, much like god as painted by michelangelo. talk about fan mail. here's ernest as he's getting ready to go other. he's grown this beard because of irritation by the sun on the patrols on pilar. so ernest eventually shaves his beard and goes to europe. he is there as a war correspondent. he's driving around the battlefield looking for excitement. ernest gets a jeep from the army and gets a private. and that

kissinger's i should say view of melvin laird was somewhat similar to what john kennedy thought about avril harriman, that he was the crocodile on the side of the creek who could bite your head off if you did it wrong. so laird's positions and what laird did and how he related to the president's enterprises was of huge importance to the white house, and that's why certain things happened the way they did during that period of the vietnam war. and i think jeff is right about laird's commitment to de-americanizing the war, but the way that the nixon administration went about doing that had a lot to do with the character of melvin laird, who, by the way, played a very important role in watergate, not only with nixon in convincing him to finally yield the tapes in 1973-'74, but also with gerald ford. >> time for one, maybe two questions. yes? >> my name is mark gellar, i'm with the program at cal state fuller ton. we've been asking similar questions. i'll try it again a different way. could we actually have won the vietnam war? how and what would it look like? >> okay. start with jeff. >> that'

one, a green and white minute icooper, the other, an unknown model avril car police say struck tbar seerolled over landing on the sidewalk. rescuers pulled the 31-year-old from the car but she was pronounced dead at the hospital. relatives say she leaves behind a husband and three children. as of now, police say they haven't found the two cars that were racing. >> only three witnesses have provided information. we need to hear from more people. they stated the dark gray sedan may have been attempting to catch up way green and white mini cooper. neither one of those vehicles stopped. >> reporter: police are not saying university how fast those two cars were going. they-- just how fast those two cars were going. they do believe this was a speed contest. it is just three lanes wide here and it does have a number of stoplights along the way as well. family members are now telling us that they will take garcia's body back to honduras where she will be buried. that is the latest here in colesville. back to you. >> thank you. >>> meanwhile, police in laurel, maryland are offering a $3,000 rewa