kenan washes out eventually goes off to the academy. he's replaced by any paul nixon who was more like action more of a hard line get it done and and nitsa and bob love it, right something called nsc-68 1950 and it's a blueprint for the cold war as get them, you know build up our defenses. go get those comments. and you know, there was a lot of truth to that but it becomes a blunt instrument. and a lot of scholars think of course that set the stage for vietnam. actually. they think that the truman doctor is so broad. we're going to defend free people's everywhere. that sets up jfk's inaugural address in 1960 one, you know, we're gonna bear every burden and we take on too much this is warned about actually by walter lipton all the way back in 1940 or yeah. it's a book called a cold war. he wants were making our heat. we're violating a fundamental rule of farm policy where our commitments are greater than our resources. we're trying to do too much and the sad the tragic. result ultimately as vietnam george kennan testifies against the vie

joining us now is director of the woodrow wilson center kenan institute. thank you for joining me. it is probably easy to see why sanko wants to meet with putin, but why does president putin want to have this meeting? >> thanks again for having me, this has been a long-standing goal for moscow to essentially reintegrate or assert meaningful , enduring control over belarus, which is a former soviet republic, arguably the republic it -- republic that was closest to moscow. lukashenko as he's been in power has played a balancing game, ying to draw closer to the west and moscow and closer to the west again. having cracked down so violently on people protesting the presidential election, he slammed the door on the western option and is fully dependent on moscow so this is a win for putin. >> what is the risk that europe faces in further isolating belarus? >> there is not a good option through lukashenko to reengage belarus so the europeans are doing -- what they are doing is having an appropriate response to his snatching an airplane out of the sky violating principles of aviation and r

and so that was kenan's idea was rejected by them because we were more hardline. we were wanting to save berlin you met to the airlift, you know, the we want to say belen from the russians we by then we'd be dug in so canon's idea did it work, but there was a view and we wallace truman secretary commerce who was a you know, he wanted to deal with the russians to trust them. there, you know there's a whole revision of school that came up and the academy in the 1960s and 70s that said we were way too. hard line against the russians we could have dealt with them. we could have found done mortified peaceful coexistence after stalin died. there was an opening and we kind of blew it by not reaching out to them. maybe we could have shared the bomb with them. i mean this this argument is going on for a long time and probably it still goes on and academic circles were we two hard line with the russians? did we miss a chance to speak to them to talk to them negotiator as a historian though. do you find it a little problematic or even almost offensive to sort of? i mean to c

endured this interview is part of the veterans history project conducted by the atlanta history center's kenan research center. i grew up on a farm between athens and commerce, georgia. this was kind of growing up in the 50s. i was born in 1943. so growing up in the 50s on the farm. my grandfather been a farmer he would we lived with him or he lived with us. we moved in my grandmother died and kind of took care of my grandfather and he was kind of winding down on his farming days, but we still hadul

rockets in israel they decided when this round would start israel will decide when it ends my calling kenan unable to speak to the former pink floyd from an anonymous roger waters he believes that global civil society can force israel to surrender occupied palestinian arms. unless some pressure is brought to bear upon the israeli government to stop the ferocious murderous attack upon on gaza they're not going to stop of their own accord their will is not going to suddenly disappear but clearly in the long term. these really occupation of palestine is untenable it is not a future that compulsively supply public opinion is changing all over the world and they are not going to be allowed to get away with it by the by global civil society in my view again you understand i have to give israel a point if you all not they say an israeli court ruled thought prior to 948 the land was in jewish. and the huts because of jordan it was taken away from them this is not an equal conflict this is not when we're talking about gaza which will can a barrel full of fish in the israelis as shooting into it with

was used by the town of kenan group to carry out attacks inside the israeli territory this is the new development. by palestinian groups that they have not announced about that with supposed to be like. a surprise maybe but yes. it is moved you live a still a share in the policy in groups is that they're trying also to move to another level of collation before that. we hear fuchs to jin's. because all resulted from. in the system saying to intercept there are kits that would have been fired from gaza and the early morning to work. so that tax also. ongoing from both sides but. really the recent as the raiders. are different from the previous different from the yesterday was the strongest was of course when they had to hit the shell buildings leaving thousands of families in the city. all right we'll leave it there clear an escalating situation that will come back to your life a software and a cyber attack on a u.s. oil pipeline is starting to have an impact on the public the colonial pipeline was shut down after a ransomware attack i think ohio reports. an increasingly familiar scene

this interview is from the veterans history project and was conducted by the atlanta history center's kenan research center. how old were you when you went to vietnam? i was 24 24. what was your family status? i was married to my husband al who was also in the military and we went together. and at home was my sister brother mother and father back in massachusetts. and your hometown the sterling

was used by the town of kenan armed group to put it out attack inside the israeli territory is this is the new development. by the product the armed groups that they have not announced about that with blood supposed to be like. a sort of prize maybe but. the grade is moved a little of a collision on the policy and group says that that's where he goes with them all go another level of us coalition you know as nation has worn the sides that that on track for a full scale war is called for an immediate cease fire saying normal people a painful latest fight is to deescalate. supporters of both the israelis and the palestinians have gathered in new york's arrival protests hundreds of people groups outside the israeli consulate in manhattan and thousands of people have brought in london to protest against the israeli attacks on gaza the fortis gathered outside the british prime minister's official residence at 10 downing street as he headlines the stream coming up next. it's a very bleak picture for a lot of americans out there white supremacy impacts all of our patients your plan even the m

interview is from the veterans history project and was conducted by the atlanta history project's kenan research center. coming up gerhard weinberg and michael nyberg talk about the role smaller battle fronts had on the pacific theater and the outcome of the war. they examine campaigns in the indian ocean and ethiopia. on "real america," a 1972 u.s. information agency film documenting president nixon's trips to china, iran, moscow and poland. charlotte: i was born at -- hospital in atlanta. when i was about a year old, my family moved to marietta. my father was in the army air corps

this interview is from the veterans history project and was conducted by the atlanta history centers, kenan research center. i was born in savannah and grew up. well, never grow up. you can grow older. i have spent the my earliest years in garden city and then did my father was with the railroad the central of georgia railroad and southern bought them and 1963. he was transferred to washington dc. so i i was 15 at the time finished high school in washington came back to to georgia to attend emory university in atlanta, where where i got my pastors degree and four years of air force rotc commission regular commission out of rotc 1969. and that would have been active duty immediately immediately. so 10 days later. i was it's in sacramento at mather air force base to enter navigator training. yeah, comment was made earlier about your little younger than most of us. this would be in. how old were you and you actually became? a pilot i was not a pilot. i was a navigator. i told i told pilots where to go. i was 21 when i graduated and was commissioned so in night my first combat tour as a combat

interview is from the veterans history project and was conducted by the atlanta history project's kenan research center. coming up gerhard weinberg and michael nyberg talk about the role smaller battle fronts had on the pacific theater and the outcome of the war. they examine campaigns in the indian ocean and ethiopia. on "real america," a 1972 u.s. information agency film documenting president nixon's trips to china, iran, moscow and poland. charlotte: i was born at -- hospital in atlanta. when i was about a year old, my family moved to marietta. my father was in the army air corps, and was an aircraft mechanic. he got a job at bell bomber that later became lockheed. in that -- they had to do some really quick housing project to make room, make places for people to live. so, that was how i wound up in marietta. and we lived in one of those housing project. i remember when i was about three, my earliest memories, my mother was a hairdresser and she had tuesdays off and she always wanted to go to atlanta on tuesday. she would take me with her. we would take the greyhound bus downtown and

this interview is from the veterans history project and was conducted by the atlanta history center's kenan research center. robert: i was born in savannah -- you never grow up, you can grow older -- i spent my earliest years in garden city

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. >> for more we turn to matthew, the director of the kenan organization. would lukashenko consider raman pratasevich such a threat? >> a few recents. pratasevich has been in exile, a sentence of 12 years for alleged terrorism -- so this is not new. in the last several months in the aftermath of the stolen august presidential election which resulted in hundreds of thousands of people coming out in the streets in minsk. the new service next step which pratasevich cofounded, this has been viewed as a national security threat, threat to the regime by the lukashenko government in minsk. the opportunity to snag this opponent was too tempting for them. >> the word snag is pretty much what the europeans called it today. tonight, we have seen the european union announced these sanctions, including a ban on belarusian airlines flying over e.u. countries and the use of belarusian airlines in the e.u. airports. what is the implication of that, and how effective is it likely to be? >> it is interesting and a couple of respects. one is proportionate in the sense that it

this interview is from the veterans history project and was conducted by the atlanta history centers, kenan research center. i am originally from blytheville, arkansas. i was born in december 6 1948. blavel is in the very northeast corner of arkansas, very flat delta land and it was a perfect spot for a b-52 base after world war ii. my fault i grew up with a family of four a sister five years older than i am and mother dad working family on main street. we owned a furniture store and at one time nicola and dime store so my life was looking through the glass and seeing all the people from many years. um to going back to my family, my was instrumental in. getting the b-52 base to blytheville, arkansas. he was a member of chamber of commerce for many years and served as the liaison officer. he and my mother for 25 years with the base. so i grew up entertaining military children. taking them to the lake i had my own blyvel air force base swimming patch. we had vip cards all my life. so in some ways i really was more military brat as a civilian than most people. did your father serve in world wa

this interview is from the veterans history project and was conducted by the atlanta history center's kenan research center. how old were you when you went to vietnam? i was 24 24. what was your family status? i was married to my husband al who was also in the military and we went together. and at home was my sister brother mother and father back in massachusetts. and your hometown the sterling massachusetts the small town 750 people outside of worcester, massachusetts about 40 miles from boston outside worcester. uh-huh. what year was it? you went to vietnam. i was in vietnam 68 69. what was your sense of the vietnam war before you decided to enter the military? well, actually i didn't have much of a sense of it at all. the way i entered the military. was that the army nurse corps and the navy nurse court came around to different nursing schools, and they had formulated the student nurse corps program, which was a narrow tc program because they needed nurses. and i wasn't old enough at the time to sign to go into the army nurse course, so i had to take the paper home. and only my father co

this interview is from the veterans history project and was conducted by the atlanta history center's kenan research center. robert: i was born in savannah -- you never grow up, you can grow older -- i spent my earliest years in garden city and my father worked for the georgia railroad and was transferred to washington dc i was 15 at the time and finished high school in washington and came back to georgia to attend emory university in atlanta where i got a bachelors degree and four years of air force rotc and regular commission out of rotc in 1969. host: and that would have been active duty? robert: immediately. 10 days later, i was in sacramento at the air force base to enter navigating training. host: a comment was made earlier about you are a little younger than most of us. how old were you when you became a pilot? robert: i was not up pilot, i was a navigator. i told pilots where to go. i was 21 when i graduated and was commissioned. my first combat tour as a combat navigator with b-52s in 1971. i was born in 47, so i was actually 23 when night went over for my first deployment and was

endured this interview is part of the veterans history project conducted by the atlanta history center's kenan research center. i grew up on a farm between athens and commerce, georgia. this was kind of growing up in the 50s. i was born in 1943. so growing up in the 50s on the farm. my grandfather been a farmer he would we lived with him or he lived with us. we moved in my grandmother died and kind of took care of my grandfather and he was kind of winding down on his farming days, but we still had mules he had a paramules when mules when i was real young. eventually, we sold off he sold off the paramils and we had one mule that we used for gardening and we had a full acre of garden. so there was always a lot of work to do there and then we did some farming ourselves. so we grew corn and some hay and some wheat and some oats from time to time and as a 12 and 13 year old boy, i was plowing that mule and the garden and in the cornfields and so on so i have before i surely before i flew supersonic jets. i was on the south end of a northbound mule. so it was a unique experience you think about plow

this interview is from the veterans history project and was conducted by the atlanta history center's kenan research center. >> i had two brothers. -- i grew up in a small family. i had two brothers. my older brother that died in 2009, he was two years older, and my younger brother who is almost two years younger than i am, and he still lives in new york. my father and his family emigrated from nazi germany in 1935 or so. my mother was born in brooklyn but her father was born and raised in germany and came here as a young man. my mother's mother was born in brooklyn as well. we moved to brooklyn when i was a baby, so i have no memory of where i was born whatsoever. myn brooklyn, and then we move to staten island when i was seven and that's where i grew up, too. my father and mother built a legend around our family. again, i knew my father and his family moved -- immigrated from nazi germany, but they built a legend around that and the legend had to do with his father, my grandfather who i did not know, he was killed in a car accident in 1939, i did know that, and he was a prominent surgeon

jeff hoops of associate or pastor at the university of north carolina at chapel hill kenan school of business and finally mr. kyle palmero a resident fellow of the american enterprise institute. i want to thank every one of our witnesses for joining us today and dr. disney i'd like to recognize you for five minutes please. >> thank you chair warren and ranking member cassidy for the opportunity to speak today. when a person is born in this country which is pretty much the same way all the time the baby comes out and gets a slap on the touche intella cries but it in a family that money goes goes a little bit differently. the doctor looks deep into those babies eyes and says never -- people who inherit wealth so why is capitol so sacred? is the goose that lays the golden the more u. have more income and growth the more stuff you can buy and so forth. the subtext is never spent capitol is of course the jobs are available and if you find yourself earning a living by labor that's how rich people stay rich. i was born very lucky and continued to be very lucky today but a lot of things have

this interview is from the veterans history project and was conducted by the atlanta history centers, kenanrch center. i was born in savannah and grew up. well, never grow up. you can grow older. i have spent the my earliest years in garden city and then did my father was with the railroad the central of georgia railroad a