that our secretary of state john foster dulles proclaimed our policy is global. we started as a continental empire by clearing out the native peoples and other foreign forces then we became an overseas empire by taking islands in various parts of the world and then after the second world war we've been very. global in part now we are playing on the whole bill your type. the united states has always had a variety of tools to use and its attacks on other countries. economic sanctions are are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is play some military pressure on the countries a talking about and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country particularly in our own press and in the press of that leader's own country. americans love to think there were intervening in other countries to overthrow evil people and if that's true you have to make the person look evil. in nineteen fifty one ottomans came to power in guatemala to being a looked at by the people in washington the us president received the usual courtesies

that our secretary of state john foster dulles proclaimed our policy is global. we started as a continental empire by clearing out the native peoples and other foreign forces then we became an overseas empire by taking islands in various parts of the world and then after the second world war we began to a global empire now we are playing on the whole bill your type. the united states has always had a variety of tools to use and its attacks on other countries. economic sanctions are are often just the beginning another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries a talking about. and there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country particularly in our own caress and in the press of that leader's own country. americans love to think there were intervening in other countries to overthrow evil people and if that's true you have to make the person look evil. in nineteen fifty one ottomans came to power in guatemala to being a looked at by the people in washington the u.s. president received the usual courtesies

saw zhou enlai loses temper twice and once was telling me the story about how we felt when john foster dulles would not shake his hand so you get some of the color of this from out as part of the personal aspect. there's another story where james or reston "the news york times" columnist ted been in china and he was visiting another city and he was scheduled to go to beijing while kissinger was there. kissinger was oh my goodness you know if he arrives he may hear that i am here. suddenly i can't remember what city it was but a communist party official told reston a trip to beijing with the delayed for a few days and once he does arrive kissinger compresses to zhou enlai please don't tell reston that i've been here what we have talked about or i would have to ask for a job in your foreign mystery -- ministry. there are a bunch of other stories about that in the book. two points i want to make about how and why they achieve what they did because they think they have broader significance. one is they made the transactional server transformational. i know this from my own experience the latter i

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bush, john foster dulles and bob gates. so take a look at some of the questioning today. >> the cia selectively declassified only small pieces of information to bolster your nomination. while keeping damaging information under wraps. >> what i believe sitting here today is that i support the higher moral standard we have decided to hold ourselves to. >> would you please answer the question? >> i think i've answer the question. >> know you have not. >> martha: that in the same week as we heard this from former first lady michelle obama. >> if we as women are still suspicious of one another -- if we still have this crazy, crazy bar for each other that we don't have four men, if we are still doing that today, if we are more comfortable -- if we are not comfortable with the notion that a woman could be our president compared to, what? >> martha: joining me now, amber smith, former deputy assistant to defend secretary mattis and former army helicopter pilot and former senior advisor to hillary clinton. it just strikes me that th