it apparently was a political deal wanted to help check check -- czechoslovakia after the fall of the wall. we can understand that. but you see what's happening some political part of the government worrying about foreign policy decides that we don't care too much about american sleeping bags or whatever we want to make friends 0 our country so we forgo american jobs for foreign jobs in a way to win favor with those companies -- those countries. i'm not saying that's never good. i'm just saying that when you do that time and time again you begin to concede too much of american wealth and jobs. so g.s.p. was in effect in 1974 and it was to help those countries. and i don't think it should have been changed. the company began but a few years ago a chinese company began to produce sleeping bags and import them into the united states. they are not eligible to be a g.s.p. low-cost, duty-free shipper because they're not a poorer nation that qualifies under the g.s.p. and they began to import into the united states. so when it became clear that we got a good american company that can compete

and there had been in cases in the pasterlin, hungary, czechoslovakia, each time the viet union came in and crushed it, killed the demonstrators, and we were worried that that could be repeated. so what we wanted to do was encourage eastern europeans inpendence and development but at a pace that was under the soviet radar, either that they would react or that they would over throw gorbachev in a coup. now, we didn't know what that pace was, but that w our strategic goal. now, there was a coup, but it was in 1991, and it was too late, and too inept, really to make a difference. >> rose: we began to development two things that are important policy points and i want to talk first about the economics. what has been called shock thery, was that a mistake, larry? >> i think that the pple who have gone back and have studied the different pts of the former soviet union and centr europe have consistently found that those who did moreeform more quickly are in stronger position economically today than those who did less reform and did it more slowly. so in the fullness of it, those who moved to

i mean, the red army was in west, was in germany and poland and czechoslovakia. it was not their fault. it was hitler's fault that they were there. i don't think, you know, the soviet union at that time was our ally. i don't think there was any -- i think they did what they could, but thanks to the germans the russians were where they were. and i think short of suddenly making war on our ally who had just defeated the germans, it makes no sense to me. and certainly, i mean, roosevelt famously thought that his charm could, perhaps, manipulate stalin to some degree. i think he underestimated the degree to which stalin was psychopathic about things and impervious to the sort of charm that roosevelt could exert. um, but there's a lot of evidence if you look at roosevelt's correspondence, certainly, toward the end of the war that he was under no illusions about either stalin or soviet intentionings at the end of the war -- intentions at the end of the war. now, where that would have led, i mean, i tend to think the truman administration was the roosevelt administratio

. >> agreed to let hitler take the land from czechoslovakia and wouldn't expand further. >> chambersler take land that didn't belong to him. >> that's known as appeasement. giving a bully hoping he won't come back for more. >> not a very effective strategy. >> governor, i'm so glad you played that clip. it illustrates what we're trying to do in the video, help kids realize that history is relevant to the present. standing up to hitler is the same ago standing up to terrorists and bullies and kids can make the parallel what happened in the past to what's going on in the world today to what's going on in their own lives. >> there was a lot of controversy the last couple of weeks and one of the videos, about 75 playing. one was on 9/11, how do you tell the american story without it. kids weren't around then. they don't have any personal recollection, but ended up controversial because some people said that you're trying to cash in, and make a profit off 9/11. were you surprised by that criticism that came? >> you know, i was surprised because, i mean, i don't think anyone asked michael

czechoslovakia. >> anyway, it's been an absolutely horrific month for the president politically, justally. i'm sure he's had a wonderful summer but politically a horrific month, not any bert for congress. put this in perspective. historically, is august usually a bad month, presidential historians? >> something always happens. >> august is arguably the most history-filled month. hiroshima, world war i, katrina, nixon resigns, the invasion of kuwait. >> the start of world war i. >> the start of world war -- yeah. sarajevo. so the whole -- i'm not sure what it is. it's a great parlor game. is it because it's hot? is it because people are planning? because the fall becomes a season before the winter? it's hard to say. but, you know, i think the president would like to go back to -- i think he'd like to go back to august 2008, actually, like to be back in denver. but it's -- what's the number, 39% approval? >> yeah. >> 54% disapproval? nothing seems to be breaking his way. and as small as the boehner scheduling thing is, you know, these little things do shed light on bigger things. and, y

alternative history of world war ii were germany does not invade belgium for france or poland or czechoslovakia. we would not be writing the history of world war ii as of the nazis were a serious threat. the fact that he mentions the cargo plane fox, the urban warfare plan he mentioned in european cities in the fall of 2010 -- what do they have in common? they all failed. so this is a record of abysmal failure. the safe haven these groups enjoyed in somalia -- they just withdrew from mogadishu. they called it a tactical withdrawal, but it looks like safe haven is beginning to fail. of a bat in arabian peninsula has had a safe haven for a time in yemen, and it is expanding, but what have they been able to do? there has not been a successful attack by al qaeda and its affiliates in the west since 2005. this is really a record of failure and a record of failure that is likely to continue here not to said that there might not be a small scale terrorist attack at some point in the future, but nothing that would be oriented our national security policy as 9/11 did, and nothing that would allow us to

alternative history of world war ii were germany does not invade belgium for france or poland or czechoslovakia. we would not be writing the history of world war ii as of the nazis were a serious threat. the fact that he mentions the cargo plane fox, the urban warfare plan he mentioned in european cities in the fall of 2010 -- what do they have in common? they all faile so this is a record of abysmal failure. the safe haven these groups enjoyed in somalia -- they just withdrew from mogadishu. they called it a tactical withdrawal, but it looks like safe haven is beginning to fail. of a bat in arabian peninsula has had a safe haven for a time in yen, and it is expanding, but what have they been able to do? there has not been a successful attack by al qaeda and its affiliates in the west since 2005. this is really a record of failure and a record of failure that is likely to continue here not to said that there might not be a small scale terrorist attack at some point in the future, but nothing that would be oriented our national security policy as 9/11 did, and nothing tt would allow us to say th

alternative history of world war ii were germany does not invade belgium for france or poland or czechoslovakia. we would not be writing the history of world war ii as of the nazis were a serious threat. the fact that he mentions the cargo plane fox, the urban warfare plan he mentioned in european cities in the fall of 2010 -- what do they have in common? they all failed. so this is a record of abysmal failure. the safe haven these groups enjoyed in somalia -- they just withdrew from mogadishu. they called it a tactical withdrawal, but it looks like safe haven is beginning to fail. of a bat in arabian peninsula has had a safe haven for a time in yemen, and it is expanding, but what have they been able to do? there has not been a successful attack by al qaeda and its affiliates in the west since 2005. this is really a record of failure and a record of failure that is likely to continue here not to said that there might not be a small scale terrorist attack at some point in the future, but nothing that would be oriented our national security policy as 9/11 did, and nothing that would allow us to