doug brinkley. guest: here on memorial day weekend, we want to thank franklin roosevelt for the extraordinary job he did as commander-in-chief, picking people like george marshall to dwight eisenhower, bradley, patton, this incredible group of leaders that he surrounded himself -- military leaders he surrounded himself by. the caller is dealing in the back door to more theory, debunked by -- back door to war era, did not by scholars. this wacky notion that -- debunked by scholars. this wacky notion that roosevelt, who love our navy is a much, allowed it to be destroyed to bring the country to war. it is similar to the obama birth certificate or things that come out of jfk's assassination. there was missives, intelligence missives, saying that there was unusual japanese behavior going on. people don't realize that the president gets all sorts of information every day, and history is so much in retrospect that you say, "why did you notice this, why didn't you notice that?" that does not mean we do not

doug brinkley.re on memorial day weekend, we want to thank franklin roosevelt for the extraordinary job he did as commander-in-chief, picking people like george marshall to dwight eisenhower, bradley, patton, this incredible group of leaders that he surrounded himself -- military leaders he surrounded himself by. the caller is dealing in the back door to more theory, debunked by -- back door to war era, did not by scholars. this wacky notion that -- debunked by scholars. this wacky notion that roosevelt, who love our navy is a much, allowed it to be destroyed to bring the country to war. it is similar to the obama birth certificate or things that come out of jfk's assassination. there was missives, intelligence missives, saying that there was unusual japanese behavior going on. people don't realize that the president gets all sorts of information every day, and history is so much in retrospect that you say, "why did you notice this, why didn't you notice that?" that does not mean we do not debate th

doug brinkley. guest: here on memorial day weekend, we want to thank franklin roosevelt for the extraordinary job he did as commander-in-chief, picking people like george marshall to dwight eisenhower, bradley, patton, this incredible group of leaders that he surrounded himself -- military leaders he surrounded himself by. the caller is dealing in the back door to more theory, debunked by -- back door to war era, did not by scholars. this wacky notion that -- debunked by scholars. this wacky notion that roosevelt, who love our navy is a much, allowed it to be destroyed to bring the country to war. it is similar to the obama birth certificate or things that come out of jfk's assassination. there was missives, intelligence missives, saying that there was unusual japanese behavior going on. people don't realize that the president gets all sorts of information every day, and history is so much in retrospect that you say, "why did you notice this, why didn't you notice that?" that does not mean we do not

doug brinkley. guest: a couple comments. we tried to do at the memorial is remind people of everybody's service. there were african-american units in the world war and we -- only now people now beginning to understand their servic medgar evers, who went into the civil rights uni -- movement. in worldamericans' role war ii is starting to get scholarly attention and it is long overdue. host: were african-americans in combat -- guest: very much in combat. we are talking v for victory. they had to come back aft fighting, say, germany, and come back to alabama and south carolina and a face the jim crow system. one of the great things and dwight eisenhower did during world war ii -- he said, look, we are all americans. there was a lot of racism in the american military in the second world war, but there were also a lot of courageous people within the military saying no more. you would be amazed at how many african-american service men and women in the world war fought with the civil-rights movement. host: every one of the veterans

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host: we are so pleased to have doug brinkley here at the world war ii memorial. thank you for being with us. part of the national park service, located just across 17th street from the washington monument, in between that and the lincoln memorial, open 24/7. thanks for being with us. enjoy your memorial day weekend. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable, the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on may 27, 2011, at 9:10 a.m. that the senate passed without amendment h.r. 754, appointments, congressional executive commission on the people's republic of china, national commission for the review of the research and development programs of the united states intelligence community, with best wi