's favorite son at the time, john j pershing who happened to be german, i believe. spun at thethat time, that american expeditionary forces was being led by a german-american? >> it was possible for you to be a german-american. you could admit being a german-american, but you had to stop speaking german. you had to buy liberty bonds and serve your country. ultimately, what did he do? the ultimate service. he served in the military. he was the leader of the american expeditionary forces over there in france and in eur ope. so, he really served as an example, as a german-american. this is what every german-american was supposed to do. ok, so definitely, absolutely. >> let's thank her again. >> thank hyou. i enjoyed it. thank you for participating. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] eastern, the 8:00 author explores the evolution of first lady fashion trichet chronicles the impact fashion had on the public image of the women living in the white house and what their wardrobe choices reveal abo

'sd that is about missouri favorite son at the time, john j pershing who happened to be german, i believespun at thethat time, that american expeditionary forces was being led by a german-american? >> it was possible for you to be a german-american. you could admit being a german-american, but you had to stop speaking german. you had to buy liberty bonds and serve your country. ultimately, what did he do? the ultimate service. he served in the military. he was the leader of the american expeditionary forces over there in france and in eur ope. so, he really served as an example, as a german-american. this is what every german-american was supposed to do. ok, so definitely, absolutely. >> let's thank her again. >> thank hyou.

this is primarily the army who fought primarily in france under the command of general john j. pershingo recently came back from commanding the punitive expedition in mexico where he unsuccessfully chased poncho villa. the core what became his staff, departed for france in the spring of 1917, he took with them an intelligence officer. dennis nolan who you see on the right. the only intel officer he had initially. anr time, nolan built organization that ran into the low 100's. the american expeditionary force created divisions and other organized by him. this section in charge of espionage and counterespionage was called g2b which was headed first by lieutenant colonel and who had been pershing's and who had chief in fact been involved in the failed plot to poison pancho vi lla's coffee. he did not drink enough of it. by a major officer also. nolan interesting enough, once he got some experience, he found that clandestine intelligence was less interesting and less useful in providing timely information about what was going on in the battlefields. for instance, the work of the code people