elizabeth cobbs.uest: i would respectfully disagree. although i absolutely empathize with his worry and concern that decades upon decades, your whole life, american soldiers have been dying in various places in the interesting thing about that is that number has declined. the 24-hour news cycle future mining is all terrible things that are happening tends to overlook the longer-term trend, that trend has been made fortive by globalization, the reason that before world war ii, the idea was the other way a country to get ahead, countries like the soviet union or nazi germany thought they had to take over other countries and absorb their resources to become more wealthy. instead what happened is we developed a world system where you can get ahead in trading feasibly with your neighbors and that system that the vietnamese, the south koreans and also the chinese communists have come to embrace because they see in action works better, not that we won, in fact, we lost in vietnam and the chinese came to this

elizabeth cobbs.uest: i would respectfully disagree. although i absolutely empathize with his worry and concern that decades upon decades, your whole life, american soldiers have been dying in various places in the interesting thing about that is that number has declined. the 24-hour news cycle future mining is all terrible things that are happening tends to overlook the longer-term trend, that trend has been made fortive by globalization, the reason that before world war ii, the idea was the other way a country to get ahead, countries like the soviet union or nazi germany thought they had to take over other countries and absorb their resources to become more wealthy. instead what happened is we developed a world system where you can get ahead in trading feasibly with your neighbors and that system that the vietnamese, the south koreans and also the chinese communists have come to embrace because they see in action works better, not that we won, in fact, we lost in vietnam and the chinese came to this

host: elizabeth cobbs is a senior fella at the hoover university. mark kramer is the program director at harvard project on the cold war. david is next from los angeles. go ahead please. caller: good morning and happy mother's day to all the ladies listening in. i would like to chime in with the assassinations as well as this cold war and the military industrial complex. as far as cold war concerned in the beginning, after you mentioned the marshall plan. here in the united states, we were at our peak of apartheid. the only difference with south korea and the united states was is that mandela was assassinated. there was someone who said that the united states have amnesia in way we do history. it's like that period was america's apartheid. guest: united states has been a deeply racist society not only with lengthy history with slavery but then with 100 years with racial segregation and institutionalized racism in the united states. i think lyndon johnson who in 1968 decided not to run for reelection he deserves immense credit for his instrumental ro

host: elizabeth cobbs? >> we just saw l.b.j. mark was so right to point out that because of what happened in vietnam, we tend to remember l.b.j. in that way. but he was a person who did so many things as well. advance civil rights in a way that no president had done since abraham lincoln, advanced nuclear proliferation treaty. there are major accomplishments that changed our world. >> charlie is joining us from new york. good morning, go ahead, please. caller: yes, good morning in. the late 1970's, i was assigned calvary cond armored regiment. we gaared the border between east, west germany and czechoslovakia. 100 feet into czechoslovakia there was an apple tree. i was there picking apples. i was walking back. i heard movement behind me. it was an eight-man czech army patrol. all they did was they smiled and they waved. in the morning, we would give them hot coffee. they would give us hot soup. we got along very well with the soldiers of the czech army. >> one of the results of the invasion of czechoslovakia is that the czech ar

elizabeth cobbs.uest: i would respectfully disagree. although i absolutely empathize with his worry and concern that decades upon decades, your whole life, american soldiers have been dying in various places in the interesting thing about that is that number has declined. the 24-hour news cycle future mining is all terrible things that are happening tends to overlook the longer-term trend, that trend has been made fortive by globalization, the reason that before world war ii, the idea was the other way a country to get ahead, countries like the soviet union or nazi germany thought they had to take over other countries and absorb their resources to become more wealthy. instead what happened is we developed a world system where you can get ahead in trading feasibly with your neighbors and that system that the vietnamese, the south koreans and also the chinese communists have come to embrace because they see in action works better, not that we won, in fact, we lost in vietnam and the chinese came to this

host: that concludes our nine part series, will want to thank elizabeth cobbs and mark kramer. to you and all the guests, we thank you very this program 1968, america in turmoil is available as a podcast and all of our coverage is available online any time at c-span.org. real america, a 1968 nuclear attack preparedness video. this cold war era film explains procedures for assessing damage and security military base after a nuclear attack. e.t.a. fall out working on it. orders great cover. deployed damage assessment teams. deployed casualties assessment team. casualty and damage assessment team deployed provide command post with evaluation total base condition construction to assess and report especially report you call us because if you don't we'll call you. assessment report. no umbrellas. it starts to rain we'll let you know. command post. 2036 hours. aircraft successfully dispersed 2018 hours. team proceeding north with assessment. civil engineers control reports heavy damage among forward equipment, equipment needed urgently. transportation dispatched one vehicle with four

we want to thank elizabeth cobbs and mark kramer from harvard. to you and all the guests that participated in the series, we thank you. >> madeleine albright sits down with washington post columnist david ignatius to talk about the trump administration's one policy, including the current talks with north korea about a possible summit. then, at 10 pm, of form and how to use intelligence to assess cyber threats to organizations and companies. that is also on c-span two. in 1- 3 was -- daily. in 1979, cspan-3 was created as a public service television company and through today we continue to bring you coverage of congress, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, dc and around the country, cspan-3 is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider >>> chicago illinois

we want to thank elizabeth cobbs and mark kramer from harvard. to you and all the guests that participated in the series, we thank you. >> madeleine albright

as i said, we actually cooperate with -- >> elizabeth cobbs is the author of how many books? and mark kramer who is joining us in washington. is the program director at harvard. david is next in los angeles. >> good morning, and happy mother's day. i would like to tie my name with the assassinations as well as the cold war in the military industrial complex. as far as the cold war is concerned, in its beginning after you mentioned to the marshall plan, here in the united states we were at our peak of apartheid. the only difference with south africa and the u.s. was that our mandela was assassinated. there was someone that said that the united states had amnesia in the way that we do history. it is like that period was america's zenith into its apartheid. >> thank you for your call. >> let me take issue with that. the united states has been a deeply racist society, not only with a lengthy history with slavery, but then 100 years with rachel segregation and institutionalized racism. i think lyndon johnson, who in 1968 decided not to run for reelection, but he deserves immense c

our guests are elizabeth cobbs and huber institute fella. mark kramer program director on cold war studies. first here's a look back at the apollo eight mission.

our guests are elizabeth cobb and mark cramer, program director at harvard's project on cold war studies. tonight at 8:00 eastern on cspan. and on cspan 2, the house oversight and government reform committee reviews a progress report on the 200 census. members talk today with the acts assistant attorney general for civil rights and you can watch that hearing tonight starting at 8:00 eastern on cspan 2. ambassador curt volcker joined other foreign policy experts to discuss how imposing sanctions impacts russia's foreign policy. it's part of a forum hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. it's about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. am i on? >> what's new? >> well, good afternoon, everyone. i know we're pulling people back from a coffee break, but we are delighted to get started here. good afternoon. i'm heather conley. i'm senior vice president here at csis and matt has been my partner this crime in this to talk about four year of sanctions. you just heard a rich conversation, now we're going to turn to the impact of sanctions on

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our guests are elizabeth cobbs, historian, documentary film maker, and hoover institution fellow. and mark cramer, program director at harvard university's project on cold war studies. watch tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> the house of representatives today voted against a five-year extension of the farm bill. all democrats voted against the bill. as did 30 republicans. just after the 198-213 vote, house speaker paul ryan made a motion that the bill be reconsidered. here's debate from the house floor. thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i commend my colleague, mike conaway, and the other members of the agriculture committee for their work on the farm bill. i have every intention of voting for the bill and have stated that on many occasions. having been working on a re-authorization of a major bill recently, i can certainly sympathize with the effort here and say that overall this bill is an improvement on past farm bills because it responds to the desperate need of work

joining us to talk about that turbulent time are elizabeth cobbs. watch 1968, america in turmoil, live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on cspan's washington journal and on american history tv on cspan 3. >>> sunday on q&a. university of california santa barbara english professor on his book inseparable about the life and times of conjoined twins cheng and ang bunker. >> these are two married couples who cannot be in the same bed. also, so that's how when they set up this two separate households of about a mile from each other. and they stick to this very rigid schedule, is that they will say stay in cheng's house for three days with cheng's wife. and during the three days, cheng, basically, the master of the house. he can do whatever he wants to. and ang will give up his free will, okay. that's called alternate mastery. three days later, they move to ang's house and ang will be the master of the house and cheng will give up his own free will. >> did it work? >> apparently. they had 21 children. >> q&a sunday night at 8:00 eastern on cspan. >>> and an im

joining us to talk about the turbulent time are elizabeth cobb, historian and documentary filmmaker, and mark kramer, the project on cold war studies at harvard university. watch 1968. america in turmoil, live at a talk 30 eastern on cspan washington journal and american history tv on cspan 3 . >>> connect to info-- personalize the information you get to us. go to www.c-span.org /connect & up for the email. the program guide is a-- is an email with an updated schedule and upcoming live coverage. word for word gives you the most interesting video highlights with no commentary. the newsletter is an insiders look at upcoming authors and book festival and the american history tv weekly newsletter gives you the upcoming programming exploring our nation's past. visit www.c-span.org /connect & up today. >>> you can imagine that these are 2 married couples that cannot be in the same bed. and also that's how when they set up these separate households about a mile from each other and they stick to this very rigid schedule, they will say they live in chang's house with chang's wife and during t

joining us to talk about that turbulent time c are elizabetho -- are elizabeth cobb and mark kramer. watch "1968: america in turmoil" live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's washington journal, and on american history tv on c-span3. >> this weekend on american history tv, from the university of minnesota, a look back 30 years to the first amendment supreme court case hustler magazine versus falwell. here is a preview. >> i am extremely uneasy to talk about the value -- my values in a room of people who do it for a living and of the answer better than i do. my own sense of it is a lot of the power for first amendment purposes comes on the fact that satire is counterfactual. get invites you into this imaginative process for the world looks different. it is donald trump with a pigtail at the back of his hair. butt is that donald trump with a toilet for his mouth or something like that. it invites you to compare this alternative reality to our reality and ask us to consider how fair the comparison is. it does it efficiently, quickly. it does it through a variety of devices like word

next week on the american turmoil series, we will explore the cold war with elizabeth cobbs, historian, documentary filmmaker, hoover institution fellow. as well as mark kramer, part of the cold war studies department at harvard. oning up next for viewers history tv, you will see a cbs broadcast from day 27 of 1969 generational views of the vietnam war and dissent. this was the second part of a three-part program. focusing on people between the ages of 17 and 23. >> it is a time of dissent for many of america's young. a coalition of events they could not control has caused a challenge to values they cannot accept. what are the key events? what has been their impact? we have surveyed the attitudes of youth closely, and this is what they say. >> i would just say, college life itself. we see that not everyone thinks the way that i do, certainly. these people have a right to think that way that they do. >> just every aspect of life, such as developing a concern about the country. you know, finding out that things are right, or things are run. >> kennedy's assassination, just kennedy checke

our guests are elizabeth cobb and mark cramer, program director at harvard's project on cold war studies. tonight at 8:00 eastern on cspan. and on cspan 2, the house oversight and government reform committee reviews a progress report on the 200 census. members talk today with the acts assistant attorney general for civil rights and you can watch that hearing tonight starting at 8:00 eastern on cspan 2. ambassador curt volcker joined other foreign policy experts to discuss how imposing sanctions impacts russia's foreign policy. it's part of a forum hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. it's about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good afternoon. am i on? >> what's new? >> well, good afternoon, everyone. i know we're pulling people back from a coffee break, but we are delighted to get started here. good afternoon. i'm heather conley. i'm senior vice president here at csis and matt has been my partner this crime in this to talk about four year of sanctions. you just heard a rich conversation, now we're going to turn to the impact of sanctions on russia's foreign policy poli

joining us to talk about that time are elizabeth cobbs and mark kramer. "1968: america in turmoil," live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's "washington journal" and on american history tv on c-span3. >> sunday night on "after doctor journalists and cori talks about his book "killing in the deep stat." sharyl: maybe you can discuss the deep state, shadow government, and the swap. it is: in my terminology, the deep state, and others called in the shadow government, because they are affecting their own bureaucratic wishes rather than the wishes of the people, and electing donald trump, for instance. donald trump termed it swamp, a term mostbably americans immediately understand, because washington was at one point a swap. amp.w the creatures coming out are certainly biting back further turf. >> watch "after words" on c-span2's booktv. >> "washington journal" continues. host: it is our spotlight on magazine series here on "washington journal." ethan epstein is on your screen, he is with the "weekly standard ," and he has an article, homeless in seattle,"

we want to thank elizabeth cobbs and mark kramer from harvard. to you and all the guests that participated in the series, we thank you. >> madeleine albright sits down with washington post columnist david ignatius to talk about the trump administration's one policy, including the current talks with north korea about a possible summit. then, at 10 pm, of form and how to use intelligence to assess cyber >>> cspan-3, where history unfolds daivment in 1979, cspan- 3 was -- daily. in 1979, cspan-3 was created as a public service television company and through today we continue to bring you coverage of congress, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, dc and around the country, cspan-3 is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider >>> chicago, illinois, the convention of the democratic party. nominating tonight, it's candidate for the presidency, that man will be vice president hubert humphrey. speeches are being made for senator mcgovern, then we have a speech for channing phillips of washington, dc, a favorite candidate for

gues guests elizabeth cobbs and mark cramer, program director of harvard's project on cold war studies. that's tonight at 8:00 eastern on cspan. and on cspan 2, the house oversight and government reform committee reviews a progress report on 2020 senn. >> seth:. members talk today with the acting assistant attorney general were civiling rights and you can watch that tonight at 8:00 eastern on cspan 2. >>> we'll take a look at federal spending now and what's called rescission, where congress is able the to claw back already approved spending. this is swrjust under half an h. >> and we are back and talking to morning about republican's efforts an the president's efforts to cut spending from that trillion dollar spending omnibus package passed this year. sarah is on the phone, she's with politico. this headline

joining us to talk about that turbulent time are elizabeth cobbs, documentary filmmaker. and mark cramer, program director of the project on cold war studies at harvard university. watch "1968, america in turmoil," live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's kra journal and on american history tv on c-span3. >> now a conversation on protecting u.s. election systems from hacking. we'll hear from a computer science professor at the university of california at irvine. >> okay. thanks and welcome, everyone, to this panel. i'm going to begin by introducing each of the three panelists and we'll have short presentations from the panelists and then a discussion and we'll open it up for questions from the audience. so directly to my right is alex halderman, professor of computer science and engineering at the university of michigan. and director of the university of michigan's center for computer security and society. his research focuses on computer security and privacy with an emphasis on problems that broadly impact society and public policy. so this includes electronic voting

joining us to talk about the turbulent times are elizabeth cobb, documentary film maker.k kramer, program director of the project on cold war studies at harvard university. watch "1968: america in turmoil," live sunday on c-span's washington journal, and on american history tv on c-span3. on "q&a," uc santa barbara in this professor on his book "inseparable," about the life and times of conjoint twins chan and ang. >> you can imagine these are two married couples that cannot be in the same bed, right? and also when they set up on this two separate households about a mile from each other, and they stick to this very rigid schedule. live inl say stay, chang's house for three days with his wife, and during those three days chang is the master of the house. he can do whatever he wants to. ang will give up his free will. that is called alternate mastery. three days later, they moved to ang's house and ang will be the master of his house. chang will give up his free will. >> did it work? >> apparently. they have 21 children. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. washington

our guests are elizabeth cobbs, historian, documentary filmmaker and hoover fellow. and mark kramer, of harvard university's project on cold watt studies. that's tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. on r span 2 the health oversight and government reform committee reviews a progress report on the 2020 sen chavoucensus. members talked with the acting attorney general on civil rights and you can watch it tonight starting at 8:00 on c-span 2. >>> i approached some abandoned huts, and when i got to the site of the hut a north vietnamese soldier came out of the ground. my guys saw him but it was too late. he threw a hand grenade at me. and the grenade hit one of the poles in the hut, you know, large oak beam or whatever the wood is there, mahogany beam, and bounced off and then it went off and it peppered my -- well, you know, my flack jacket, ripped my entrenching tool in the back, a shovel, and cut the handle off of that and threw me to the ground and my leg, a piece of shrapnel hit my leg. >> watch our five-week series with vietnam war veterans starting sunday at 7:00 p.m

joining us, elizabeth cobbs and mark kramer, the program program on harvard's american studies. that begins in a moment. but first, this is from a nasa film from 1968 about the launch of apollo eight.