it is a great honor to have known fred logevall before he was fred logevall. [laughter] thus, it gives me great pleasure to welcome him to the podium. please join me in welcoming professor fred logevall. [applause] professor fred logevall: jeff, you are much too kind. please join me in welcoming and that was more of an introduction and i should've received but i will accept it with gratitude. i am just very pleased to be here this evening and to have an opportunity at smu to share a few thoughts with you, to talk a little bit about presidents and their use of history. before i do, i want to express a special thanks to everybody involved in making this happen to the university and a special thanks to jeff engle. all you know that jeff is the director of the center for presidential history here. he is also on the faculty in the history department at smu. what some of you may not know is that he is a leading historian of u.s. foreign relations history. and is at work on a book that i think is going to be profoundly important -- a study of george h.w. bush and the

on american history tv, cornell university history professor fred logevall talks about how policymakers use and misuse the past. he cites a number of analogies and how they have been used by contemporary policymakers including neville chamberlain's pre-world war ii appeasement policies and the vietnam war. southern methodist university hosted this event. it is about 80 minutes. host: my main purpose is to introduce you to professor fred logevall, a professor of history at cornell university and the vice provost for international affairs. he is those things but much more. those further attributes are the reasons why you're h

up next on american history tv, cornell university history professor fred logevall talks about how policymakers use and misuse the past. he cites a number of analogies

up next on american history tv cornell university history professor fred logevall talks about how policymakers use and misuse the past. he cites a number of analogies and how they have been used by contemporary policymakers including neville chamberlain's pre-world war ii appeasement policies and the vietnam war. southern methodist university hosted this event. it is about 80 minutes.

host: my main purpose is to introduce you to professor fred logevall, a professor of history at cornell university and the vice provost for interna