i bought harriman's memoirs. bill man westchester, in his notes, would xerox a page and cut out a little paragraph and 50 pages later you may find another paragraph from harriman's family worries but there was no context. with became before, what came after. clearly he wanted to use something from that excerpt, which kind of pointed me in a direction. but when i have 5,000, 6,000, 7,000 pages of such directions. so i read harriman's memoirs. host: how much of winston read, the did you books that he wrote? guest: i used his six volumes of war memoirs throughout and marked them up. if we were in the week of the russian invasion i went to churchill's memoir to see his take on t. because his takes, as he said, this is not a history. this was his case in his memoirs. and by omission and commission there are lots of shadings, errors. you can't take winston at his word. so, i pretty much read his memoi memoirs. pretty much in sequence. host: did you read -- william manchester -- excuse me -- william manchester's first t

harriman came as a special envoy. harriman's walking orders from roosevelt work "find out everything we can do for inland short of going to war." randolph was in the desert on duty. he was a brave soldier. pamela and randolph and harriman met -- they would have to add these weekend country dinners at checkers, the country house of the prime minister. >> where is that? >> it is in kent, 45 minutes outside of london. just lovely green vistas. also not on the flight path of the german bombers. >> in 2010, winston churchill iii died of prostate cancer. he was here and we want to show you just a little bit so you can see what he looked and sounded like. >> december 1945, the very hour of victory, the architect of victory was discussed. my grandmother said "my dear, perhaps it is a blessing in disguise." and he said, "well, but it was certainly very well disguised." >> what was she like? >> she did not like politics. there were these strange irishman. churchill did not do anything to assuage the rumors that drove clementine

. >> it is terrible about rebecca harriman attended a different elementary school that i don't ignore ever ready to send your child back to school after something like this happens. as much as we can get him back to normal, we have to. >> at sandy hook, no one is back to normal yesterday elementary school is closed indefinitely. workers at a nearby school are preparing to temporarily welcome the sandy hook students but they will be without their principal who died a hero trying to stop the gunmen. her daughter six comfort in a letter her mother went through her. >> "remember this in your darkest times -- you're never alone" your mom. >> a nearby towns as they could have a school ready for sandy hook students by tomorrow, there has been no determination about when they will return to class. >> officials in howard county are taking steps to reinforce safety plans at the schools in the wake of the events in connecticut. the county executive announced hord county will form a joint task force to address school safety concerns. the group will examine school security and determine what can b

very connection to power i was talking about prescott i mean he was back when it was brown brothers harriman back i don't know even like their cousins and then you know the bushes the like the kennedys they're salted everywhere it's an interesting theory of mark your thoughts on i mean i i think my my impression too was that they had the least amount of power and they had the least amount of clout i mean in the there's a lot of despair tree but i mean we can talk about whether it's in corporate whether it's a corporate you know death list where they do get the thing where they get a family you know the one problem i have with. that is you're looking at you know if you have a corporation is somewhat more fluid an individual is going to be responsible if they prove beyond a reasonable doubt they commit a felony a corporation can switch officers i understand you know you don't want to make it so easy just to switch but a corporation that employs thousands hundreds of thousands of people because the actions of a few and the corporation gets a felony i have a little more problematic as a criminal

that american eugenicists, charles davenport, giddily wrote mary, daughter of railroad tycoon eh harriman who headed the eugenics record office in new york, saying quote, the pfizer team is going to be a purifying conflagration one day, unquote. his prophecy would come true only 20 years later at a cost of millions. fairly easy for governments to manipulate public health, medicines and doctors for purposes of quote family planning. this soon led into policies about colonial possessions and citizenship. peoples of egypt, india, algeria and africa clearly did not fit the progress is a view of educated elite. and by their definitions, were close to quote life unworthy of life, unquote. but these trends would marinate for a decade. in the meantime, american prosperity continued spreading to the rest of the civilized world. american advertisers, film, even literature became highly desired in europe. it's another irony of this time, american movies followed a production code that emphasized universal american themes of patriotism. god, fair play, and they avoided sensationalism, sexual situatio

. >> and averill harriman said khrushchev wants peace and kennedy respond. he had already neutral -- accepted a neutral position in laos, which the space age, he said why should we compete going to in the moon. let's do it together, let's collaborate, and we believe the strong case he wants to pull out of vietnam. and his american university speech, which is think is the most visionary speech by an american president in the 20th 20th century -- >> the freedom speech. >> and fdr and a couple others that are wonderful. but this is a great speech. in june of 1963, basically says, let's end the cold war, and he is reaching out. so he is responding. both are reaching out to each other. they signed the test ban treaty. the limited test ban treaty, which is a major milestone, major victory. a series of things that have taken place during this time. kennedy also learned some other lessons, and one of them, after the bay of pigs-was, don't trust the central intelligence agency, don't trust the cia and the joint chiefs. he said i'm going to destroy the cia and tear it

. >> they are warning people were not the part of the area were harrimans car was is still available.> i think i'm going to buy another car anyway, something higher. >> i had water still right here >> at this christmas tree lots the water came up as high as the base of this reindeer. the trees remain dry. >> two years ago i was here at this lot and we had a very high tide. i was on the island for two days. >> offers a and a christmas trees storms and tied the just a normal day of work. >> i was there two weeks ago and is armed and had to bring down lights and then i thought ok bring it on. >> quite the attitude i have to tell you. water has receded and things are ok and as lot now. the worst is yet to come. it is expected tomorrow morning. >> when there is a so-called king tide is usually followed by a really low tide. take a look at this video in every borough which showed up within the last hour. we will talk more about the king tide tonight at 6:00. >> the rain has largely tapered off there this afternoon. there's still a slight possibility of a wayward shots or to. we have mostly

he is the debut at april harriman chair, head of the government studies program.e got his ba in political science from the university of florida and m.a. and phd from the university of michigan. so he speaks for the heartland of our great country. >> the automobile industry. last night and he was stopping production of vx. the electors frequently, as solid and no satisfactory radio and television shows onto human kind. even norm has competed for the misquotations in any given year and multimedia. norm is a resident scholar at the american enterprise institute for public policy research. he writes a column for roll call. he's written for every publication on the face of the earth. he and tom both have been on the news hour with jim lehrer, and "nightline" charlie rose. he has another heart and are coming ba, magna laude from university of minnesota and a phd from university of michigan, which is where you guys met. i just have to say that one of the reasons why i think tom and warm is so much attention the outlook piece is because they have been spending their enti