kennan was a precise thinker. was unencumbered by too many sentimental concerns he was able to be coldly diagnostic which may account for some of the ability to highlight issues like climate change before others were. his realism -- containment showed that realism was not a purely nationalistic doctrine. it was within the understanding of international cooperation. i don't think there is anything deemed international. he was a diplomat. is adjustment of interest something where he can see many nations sharing common interest over something like climate change. >> we have two more questions. >> i have two questions. how should we understand the relationship between kennan the man in the dimensions that you and grand strategy itself as an enterprise? is it a quincy and's that the greatest grand strategist of the american century was this person who is antidemocratic? how much of grand strategy itself is separable from these troubling aspects that you brought out? second question is, can i paint you down? -- and gran

in 1841 britainia met beverly kennan at a party. kennan was a decorated naval officer and like britainia had an impressive family lineage. they were married the following year. on february 28th, 1844, commodore kennan, president tyler and other dignitaries were aboard the uss princeton to see a demonstration of the ship's long gun peacemaker. the gun exploded killing six, commodore kennan, secretary of state usher and secretary of the navy thomas gilmore were among the victims. britaina was aboard the ship that day in february of 1844 when her husband was killed. she with a number of other ladies and dig any tears happened to be below deck when the gun exploded so they were disappeared when the gun exploded. so at 29 years old britaina about yo buried her husband. for the next 67 years britaina reside at tudor place hoped the raise additional generations of the peter family. this is in the collection it shows britainia's mother about 70 years old with her daughter. you can see that martha is holding that portrait miniature of george

it's very hard to say that he would pay no attention to diplomats like chip boland or george kennan who in the case of boland, he utilized extensively as a translator at yalta. st one thing to make a prediction on what's going to happen two, three, four years out. it's another thing still to be on the political ground when that prediction happens to watch the reactions to it and to say, well, no, soviet power's going to, just going to go as far as it can go. the prospect of a soviet france might have seemed much different to him at that time than the prospect of a soviet poland which, after all, nothing could be done about really. so that's about the best i can do. we just can't say. we can't say also whether dean acheson, whom you rightly mention as being so important to truman, whether dean acheson would have been nearly as influential with roosevelt. dean acheson, you know, had rather a prickly attitude toward roosevelt. [applause] >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i think we're going to have a book signing. cliff, where are we with the book signing for the -- at the bookstore

guest: it was founded by george kennan, the u.s. diplomat. he was ambassador to stalin's soviet union, was actually thrown out by stalin. the kennan institute was created by him and several other distinguished leaders foreign four decades ago with the goal that americans should understand not just the soviet union as a geopolitical challenge, but russia, and that's really the challenge today, to sustain an american awareness and understanding of russia and what's going on. that's what frustrates me about the current debate, is that, oh, yeah, we recognize russia is a problem. we have a big problem with russia. but we've got to understand a whole lot more about where they're coming from and how they've seen the last 10 or 20 years in order to understand why they're doing what they're doing right now. it's not at all surprising. if you've been watching russia and paying attention to their narrative, which is that americans intervene in their politics, americans try to pick winners and losers in the post-soviet space, which is their neighborhood

bush advisor mark motorcycle kennan in studio 57.n hillary clinton's testimony to the f.b.i. and the conventions. also, alarms clocks to flashlights, how you may be handing over your control to hackers. celebrating 240th birthday today of the country, don't know much about history is her sees joins us what you might not know about independence day. the news back in the morning, see in you about ten minutes. >> jeff, thank you very much. see you then. >> it is another win for michael phelps. he came out on top at the 100-meter butterfly. phelps also qualified for the 200-meter butterfly make that and the 200-meter individual medically. phelps is already the most decorated olympian of all time. with 22 medals, 18 of them gold. we have been feeling rather pat tree attic. brooke and katie in the great hall with some very special guests, guys, good morning. >> good morning, once again, joined this morning, by the musical group six string soldiers. >> how did you get together? >> sure. we started about a year and a half ago. we were in a l

way to paris in early july of 1940, was dropped off at the hotel bristol by none other than george kennan, who became a great american statesman. and then found his way to the american hospital of paris, where he went to the office of dr. sumner jackson and said to dr. sumner jackson, i need to hide for a while. and the theory is that he was being hunted by the abwehr and the gestapo, that they were on to him, they knew he wasn't an ambulance driver, he was a spy. donald coster in 1981 was interviewed and he said only one person hid me in the basement of the american hospital in paris, dr. sumner jackson. and he also added that after a week false papers were found which allowed him to get to the south of france, then to spain, and then back to the u.s. he was one of several oss agents that were sent into north africa in 1942 before "operation torch" and went on to have a very long and distinguished career, oss in the second world war and then the cia after the war. in allowing coster to hide in the basement of the american hospital, sumner jackson took his first great risk of world war ii

guest: it was founded by george kennan, the u.s. diplomat. he was ambassador to stalin's soviet union, was actually thrown out by stalin. the kennan institute was created by him and several other distinguished leaders foreign four decades ago with the goal that americans should understand not just the soviet union as a geopolitical challenge, but russia, and that's really the challenge today, to sustain an american awareness and understanding of russia and what's going on. that's what frustrates me about the current debate, is that, oh, yeah, we recognize russia is a problem. we have a big problem with russia. but we've got to understand a whole lot more about where they're coming from and how they've seen the last 10 or 20 years in order to understand why they're doing what they're doing right now. it's not at all surprising. if you've been watching russia and paying attention to their narrative, which is that americans intervene in their politics, americans try to pick winners and losers in the post-soviet space, which is their neighborhood

blitzkrieg and he found his way to paris, was dropped off at the hotel bristol by none other than george kennan who became a great american statesman and then found his way to the american hospital of paris where he went to the office of dr. sumner jackson and said to dr. sumner jackson i need to hide for a while, and the fear is he was being hunted by the gestapo. they knew he wasn't an ambulance driver but a spy. he said only one person hid me in the basement of the paris hospital and it was dr. jackson. a week later false papers were found which allowed him to get to the south of france, to spain, and back to the u.s. he was one of the agents sent to north africa in 1942 before operation torch and went on to have a very long and distinguished career dur after the war and with the cia. in allowing coster to hide in the basement of the hospital sumner jackson took his very first risk at the hospital. avenue boche, fall 1940. the germans, the most vicious and depraved and most cultured and most mben everybody lent of the 1940s, they chose the most nice place to live. when they came to the avenu