rall of american swing groups like glen miller and against the backdrop of traditional and official obsession and the environment to make musical magic. and this man, mahmoud ahmed, has always been at the forefront. ♪ ♪ ♪ when you look to the west, were there american musicians who spoke to you? ♪ ♪ >> combining elements of jazz, swing, r&b and distinctive ethiopian scales and time signatures and an always killer horn section, well, listen for yourself. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> the market in addis ababa. it's where you come for what you need. what are we here to buy, by the way? what's the plan? >> i want to make doro wat. really the king of chicken dishes in ethiopia. all right. so we're going to head down here, get some good butter. smell the fermentation? the funk. >> kibbe, ethiopian butner various stages of fermentation, depending on what you like. it is a primary ingredient in much of the cooking. >> there's between one that's really fermented and another one is a medium, so she says we should use the medium one. >> right. >> for chicken soup. and you use all the spices. it is the most impor

all sound like a way of life we left behind with glen miller and the war of the '40s. then he goes on to say, but there's no crisis to the american spirit. >> right. >> that would come later. >> exactly. what he does in this speech is he declares project independence, and by virtue of announcing project independence by which the united states -- this is the early version of drill, baby, drill. so he now sort of won re-election and says, even though he didn't have the political muscle to do this, he says we need to get rid of all these regulations and we'll stimulate production here, and he says we can be energy -- self-sufficient in energy by 1980. it's this sort of big -- and he didn't make this speech but he makes the next speech from disneyworld in florida without any sort of apparent irony. so, he declares project independence and thereby naming the problem, that we perceive ourselves to be dependent, and that was -- that came as a shock, that we were dependent and therefore vulnerable. >> so all this is playing out while watergate begins to kick in. the investigat