kahn and met herman kahn and became completely enthralled with herman kahn in so many ways.e details about stanley kubrick's interaction with herman kahn can be found in two recent kahn biographies one by a former hudson called "super genius: the mega world of herman kahn" and the other biography is "the worlds of herman kahn." both of these books give you a sense of herman kahn as a colorful individual. bruce griggs is a fan of kahn and rather than than placing him in a cold war culture milieu and those who are personally sympathetic to kahn but less so to his ideas. kubrick set out to make a serious film about the nuclear threat until one day he came across herman kahn. now, herman kahn was -- if you know anything about kahn personally, he was a quick-witnessed neo-southern californian you could say born in new jersey and grew up for his first part of his life in the bronx. his native attire as you can see in the picture of herman kahn over here is the white short-sleeved shirt worn in the dead of winter and he had this ability to tell stories. and he very quickly captured

there's been a lot of talk about herman's writings. i was around herman about for years, and maybe i missed them, but in all those years i never really saw him right. use a pin or use a typewriter, using those days, typewriters. he talked. and his talks were taped. and he had other people sort of listened to tapes and put them into print. and that's the way he worked and that's what he has this long, long bibliography which goes beyond the published books to probably dozens of reports. another way that he sponged was he loved -- i did this several times within. he loved to go to bookstores. the day with the really big, not barnes & noble times, and he walked around the bookstore with a salesperson and said one of those, one of those, one of those. ship them to me that they were not for books, they were like 45 books. and when i walked into his office, it was just bolting with books. against all the walls. piled up on the desk, everywhere. and i said to herman once, how do you find time to read these books? anti-sort of smiled, and he s

>> today, california. >> tomorrow, the world. >> hiya, herman.ur buzz bomb has a little more jews senate this year. -- juice and it this year. >> herman the german? >> those were my own clothes. herman the german in "death race 2000," a movie i made for roger corman back in 1977 or 1978. just to give you a little history about how successful he would be, we shot the movie in three weeks and made the money back in six weeks. they did it at a speedway in pasadena. i think they did all the exteriors and interiors at the pasadena civic center. it was work back then. i never thought i would be mortified publicly. >> it did you ever get mad at journalists or anyone who would bring up the show business thing? >> note, and you know why? but i lived in the house that gopher built. i would not have had a shot if i had not done that. the entertainment world is a glidepath. the best comment on that i ever heard --sonny bono was elected to the house after i left, but i knew him from television. we would talk from time to time and would sometimes commiserate.

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herman the german in death race 2000, a movie i made for roger corman back in 1977 or 1978. give you a little history about how successful he would be, we shot the movie in three weeks and made the money back in six weeks. they did it at a speedway in pasadena. i think they did all the exteriors and interiors at the pasadena civic center. it was work back then. i never thought i would would be mortified publicly. i lived in the house that gopher built. i would not have had a shot if i had not done that. the entertainment world is a glidepath. sonny bono was elected to the house after i left, but i knew him from television. we would talk from time to time and would sometimes commiserate. i would ask if he had a problem with actors becoming politicians. >> sonny said that was not the problem. the problem was politicians becoming actors. that was a comment he made 20 years ago. >> back to the radio show. your producer, here is a little bit about what she does. tell us how she fits into the program? >> would you like to talk to grandy and andy? when fred says he is offended, are

checking in with avery freeman and richard herman here with us again this weekend.py new year. >> happy new year, fredricka. >> happy new year, fred. >> excellent. glad to see you. finally reunited after the holidays opinion and now for abdulmutallab, and now what, then, avery, for him? >> well, the defense team headed up by the federal public defender has a great big bowl of problems, because number one we don't even know if abdulmutallab will cooperate. the evidence is overwhelming. potential mass murderer. all they can try toy do work with the u.s. attorney's office to come up way deal meaning he will have to spill his guts on what he knows and who was behind it. >> i thought that was actually kind of the linchpin of all this? if tried in civilian, or if prosecuted in civilian court, he actually doesn't have to necessarily share that intelligence or at least our intelligence gatherers are kind of off limits to trying to get intelligence from him as opposed to if it were a military tribunal. not true, afterry? >> no, no. he has spoke an great deal. that's an enorm

and i've got a little skinny cameraman named herman lang who weighs 150 pounds. >> reporter: for $3,000, the deal was done. ever since the blimp shot has been a treasured staple. identified with one of the best-loved phrases in tv sports. >> you are looking live at the famed horseshoe in columbus, ohio. >> i can say it all afternoon long. but it just does not make the same impact as a blimp several thousand feet in the sky, the camera looking down. that meaade you are looking liv come alive, if you will. >> reporter: 50 years of blimp shots have captured hard news as they did during a postseason game at yankee stadium in 1977. >> i credit my friend howard cosell with directing the blimp during a world series game to focus further to the north in the bronx because there was a giant blaze. thus the phrase the bronx is burning. >> so the oakland a's take -- >> reporter: at the 1989 world series, shots from the blimp told another story. >> you are looking now at a shot of the bay bridge. that apparently is where the major damage has been done. >> reporter: for other sports the blimp shot se

i think that was huge to him to the get to know lionel hampton and earl hines and woody herman and langstonughes, those kind of people gave him a sense of self. >> host: uh-huh. and that sense of self gave him a sense of something that far too few boxers historically have had, and that's a desire for lack of a better term, to not be screwed by the system. >> guest: right. right. >> host: what was that the informed by, and how successful was he in the mobbed-up red light district of boxing of carving out space for himself where he was i don't want to say not exploited bought that doesn't really not exist in boxing, but at least less than a typical fighter with his gifts? >> guest: you know, it was very difficult for robson when -- robinson when he turned pro. he was feared because of his left hook and, you know, he was just absolutely feared. he had been a new york golden gloves champion, and his reputation had grown. east coast all the way out to the west coast can. and yet if you were a fighter in the early '40s, all throughout the '40s, many of the boxing organizations had shadowy figures

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in this community, i owe so much gratitude and thanks to so many of the people in this room, ann herman and the women's studies department, carol and erwig, i'm also honored that two of the really excellent research associates and assistant that worked with me on the project, sarah and sasha are here, so it's really, really wonderful for me to start the project and start the public recognition for all of us is a private process over a series of years in this particular manner. of before i get started, i'll also say that i'm also grateful to the state archives of michigan, because before this project was anything, it was an archival project. i was looking around for a very kevin project from the one that i ended up writing about. i was interested in the institutionalization and race in michigan and was really looking for any hospital records in michigan, because so many hospital records have been destroyed at this point, along with the actual -- the former state hospitals themselves. and stumbled upon an archivist at the state archives, mark harvey, who really helped me uncould have what

now the 30 odd scholars at the conference she included some well-known older names like herman conquerors, escalation business, edward teller and younger figures like henry kissinger, james abstract shelley murray. he consisted we pull together the points of differences to find the issues. he said so often the problem is people jump to the problem and they're not looking at the issues from all angles and that's what it is to be truly strategic. later i worked with arleigh burke on the walter edge lectures at princeton. here he wrote it and spoke about the difference between power and force. he said that so many presidents, generals, admirals, ambassadors don't understand. he said that a if you mobilize perfect power, if you have the perfect battle you didn't have to fight. you gain the willing were direction without it through power, not with force. force always been the potential. csis grew throughout the 1960's as the vietnam conflict grew incrementally. we committed half a million men with body counts, incrementalism, light at the end of tunnel, burke was beside himself with his strate