macarthur foundation. union bank. >> union bank has put its financial strength to work for a wide range of companies, from small businesses to major corporations. what can they do for you? >> >"bbc world news." >> this week's headlines. we failed to connect the dots. president obama. metts serious shortcomings and analysis -- immense -- he admits shortcomings on intelligence. across the northern hemisphere. severe cold weather causing chaos, disrupting transports. million steel the chill of the big freeze. an egyptian soldier is shot dead at the gaza strip. reaching for the sky. dubai shakes off weeks of economic turmoil to unveil the world's tallest building. >> welcome to this week, a review of the major news story seen here on bbc world news. this week president obama detailed the mistakes that failed to stop the man accused of trying to blow up a plane on christmas day. he said u.s. intelligence received leads about the umar farouk abdulmutallab, but failed to share them and act on them quickly. since

he got him out in 1942 and so he was also overseeing macarthur. he also identified patton as a great leader, great for your. so martin was the sort of got father of our forces in world war ii. in addition to that almost everybody has heard of the marshall plan, and this was in 1947 when he became secretary of state. first he was the champion of the war and then after world war ii he became first ambassador to china and tried to work out a piece. and then he appointed secretary of state and as secretary of state she basically attached design and sold to the congress the marshall plan which had a lot to do with the prosperity of western europe from that time on. he was also involved in the berlin blockade and creation of nato and then became very ill and after he recovered he was appointed as president of the american red cross of all things and was highly successful. he rebuilt the american red cross and experienced a lot of come experiencing a lot of damage and loss of reputation and managed to resuscitate them and the corrine and war broke out an

macarthur revived the idea he knew best. burke didn't. it's burke's advice had been followed, the chinese would have not intervened to want something new line today would be the border between north and south korea and two thirds of korea would be free. another burke what if. 1951, to burke's surprise, he would made a member of the united nations truce delegation, the purpose was to negotiate with a communist or military discernment in korea. as those tedious negotiations proceeded, burke became angered and frustrated by the fact that the american soldiers continue to die while we rankled over a few hills, later i had to go fight through those sales. and people died and we weren't accomplishing anything -- any development of status strategy was unsatisfactory. he learned a lot about the communist and those negotiations , particularly if he had to take a rare stop in the next room, come back and then take a new position had new on the line and do good negotiating position. but something else happened during this period. very remarkable, mr

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it would fill general macarthur's promise to return to the philippines. -- it would fill general macarthurfill general macarthur's promise. as the japanese no longer have enough trained pilots to compete with the americans, this fleet will try to lure the carrier fleet away from [unintelligible] displayt -- his play -- this ploy would allow -- and it was a brilliant strategy. they disagreed with their commander. they were both so tied up with their ego that they could make terrible mistakes. that never happened to burke. hall was a folk hero all over the papers. nobody dared challenge him. burke and mitch thought he would make a blunder if he left the invasion fleet [unintelligible] in order to chase what turned out to be a japanese decoy. burke argued he had a chance to defeat the fleet and still turn south and time to deal with the second task force. [unintelligible] he did not. the third japanese fleet already had been destroyed. he neglected the importance of the japanese carrier force and focus on the northern japanese fleet. he was suckered. burge begged to relate these doubts, but h

silk case is still to say i don't have to say macarthur or the will. people say you did the will. and because of that with the metropolitan end transitory eight -- transportation authority they have hundreds of artists and each one is doing a creation for each station. i was very lucky because the people that did the mosaic mosaic, it was like a design. i design everything outside and i did not know anything about budgeting. they have a theory that if you have color furrow art -- colorful art people would feel better but i did it on lexington but originally because it would cost too much i had to move all of the callers inside of the i. how did he come up with this idea? it is because of the budget. this is did music and like many musicians playing different music but because of the budget i have six musicians. [laughter] but that is okay because i covered most of the continent's. but i don't think we have time to go into this but i just want to say, this like the lael and our wind are connected to the world because these are people who dared to think different things than the usu

it is also where he made the final decision to fire macarthur.t was the scene of many of his famous midnight poker games. during the time the president and mrs. truman lived here, this was their primary dining room, which is where there would have posted dinner with princess elizabeth, churchill, and countless others. >> sometimes i would have dinner alone. i would walk into the hangar. -- howard walk into the dining room. he would pull out my chair, pushed me up to the table, make me a fruit cup, take away the empty cup. theo brings me a plate, barnett brings me a tenderloin, carrots, and beats. i have to eat alone in a candle lit room. >> this is another very special room to blair house history. this was truman's office. the portrait of truman we have is by rita kempton, who also painted the official white house portrait of truman, and she copied those works during the reagan renovation and the 1980's. -- in the 1980's. the mantle in this room is part of the white house that was installed in the light house during the 1901 renovation. during th

[inaudible conversations] >> a macarthur fellow peter sis has written and illustrated more than 20 books for children including starry messenger, galileo and tibet thr the red box. for more information, visit petersis.com. >>> we are at frost burke state univ. speaking with thomas lewis, author of "brace for impact" surviving a crash of the industrial age by sustainable living. to start off with what do you see as the major threats to the current we of living? >> that's the content of most of the pockets along list. what i did was organize it into the threats that i.c.e. gathered against our systems that sustain us. like both the food to regrow and animals we raise and what kind of water, supplied water and treatment of waste water and energy, legal and electricity. and each of those categories is a system that has been increasingly industrialized and is increasingly in peril of failing. morrill strassel all of those systems and usually people don't look at them all at one time we give people specializing in electricity one of the things of vital to cities it takes three times as much wa

that included such odd choices as douglas macarthur and shanghai scheck we should not have been heroesobviously. but they were really two -- anyone who was in a role in the work by definition became somewhat heroic. after words the communists who wrote about the way europe was proceeding had this kind of a fervent wish that a popular french governments would be established in eastern europe and real popular governments, in other words, not governments run by the communist party but other party is being decorations' but total government's of the laughed. and it was actually masaryks suicide if, indeed, it was a suicide in czechoslovakia that brought lerner and less of hanover, and other writing columns, into open despair about what was going to take place in eastern europe. it was clear the popular front politics was not going to happen in your either going to have with capitalist governments in western europe with more common as participation was verboten to or you're going to have these communist party surrogates in eastern europe and the kind of -- they're kind of romance about what

and that included such odd choices as douglas macarthur and chang kai-shek, who should not have beenheroes, obviously. but they were willing, you know, anyone who was enrolled in the war by definition became somewhat heroic or afterwards, the columnist who wrote about the way europe was proceeding had this kind of fervent wish that popular front government would be established in eastern europe. and real popular front government. in other words, not government run by the time his party with other parties being declarations, but total -- told governments of the left. it was actually maza rexx suicide, if indeed it was a suicide in czechoslovakia that brought lerner and another guy who was writing columns into open despair about what was going to take place in eastern europe, that it was clear that she popular front for politics is not going to happen. you either going to have capitalist governments in western europe where communist participation was verbose, you know, or you're going to have these communist party moscow surrogates in asia and europe. and the kind of -- they're kind of

that happened when douglas macarthur says that you can turn backe the country with one hand behind your back. he said that they had better formations and the japanese did. its stars from there and it just goes on. -- it starts from there. if you have an army of a million men. you have some 50,000 underground security chambers or facility. also a leadership that believes that the soviets and the chinese have screwed them. you can begin to appreciate what the regime has not collapsed. -- why the regime has not collapsed. please read my last section where i "frederick nietzsche on metaphor and the way in which we human beings have a wonderful and a terrible tendency to think in these terms. to say that we are terrorists conjures up someone who looks like a bin laden, to say communist is someone like kim jong il. in general, to constantly try to examine and reexamined and examine again the premise, concepts, metaphors, assumptions that we bring to bear on our work because the whole point is that those things are more and pointing to than the daily flotsam and jetsam of information that migh

foundation, the genius grant people and i was excited i opened that letter and found out that the macarthur people wanted me to nominate someone else to be a genius. [laughter] there is a moment i thought to myself well the man who its chosen to choose other genius is, that must be the greatest genius of all. [laughter] but even my power of rationalization which i have got to say or of some couldn't really make that work. i mentioned philip roth before he in addition to winning the national book award. i received a letter this year from the pulitzer committee informing me wrong i was not eligible for a pulitzer prize. are you beginning to see a theme developed but for the writers in the audience you've probably figured it out because you guys deal with these everyday in your work. but for the agents that me bring you up to speed for a minute. the fema here is this respect. in the world of literature and i am not respected all and i don't take it personally. i know it is not a comment on my talent. it couldn't be a comment on that. i think it is a comment on the genre i right in. do you know

he is also a member of the national academy founded by the macarthur foundation.ach a chance to comment or rebut what they have heard from the other. i will ask a question or two and then we will ask questions. once you are recognized, don't wait for the microphone to find you. identify yourself. if it is appropriate, direct the question to one of the two participants. >> i would like to thank you for the opportunity to be here. i will make a handful of points up front. first, the great recession is over. i will take credit for that, the great recession, not for the recession, but for the name. it was actually the title of one of the chapters in "financial shock." i defy you to usfind someone that you used this before me. it is only over in a technical sense, but perhaps one that only an economist could appreciate. the gdp is growing. the value of all the goods and services that we produce is expanding. we saw that this morning, fourth quarter gdp. we are out of the recession. we are out of the recession largely in my view because of the policy response. the feder

years ago -- in korea 60 years ago, when confronted with generals who had their own policies, fired macarthurfaced the ire of the republican congress. this is a country where, as truman said, the buck stops here. i think obama has too often allows special interest groups to compromise and sabotage his agenda. he invoked the mantra of change. he is constantly invoking the mantra of change, but too often he is offered hope, and hope is a thin gruel in which public can prosper. in foreign policy, he is following in the george bush's footsteps by being bogged down by two tribal wars, which he has never been able to adequately explain to the public, except under this vague category of combating terrorism. he is head of an alliance, nato, with no enemies. behind that shield, europe and sold to russia and the post cold war embraced dominated by german economic power. asia is entering a post-american future. the rise of china and france japan and india -- confronts japan and india, and then the u.s. is gone down in tribal wars in afghanistan and pushed to the sidelines. i think the events in this are

national academy of sciences and national academy of public administration project funded by the macarthurk and rudy get to present their prospectus for 10 to 12 minutes each. i will then give them a chance to comment or rebut what they have heard from each other. i will ask a question or two, and then we will open the floor to those of you in the audience to ask questions. when we get to that point, once you are recognized, please wait for the microphone to find you, identify yourself, and if it is appropriate, direct the question to one of the participants. >> they give for the introduction. i want to thank you for the opportunity to be here today. i will make just a handful of points up front. first, the great recession is over. by the way, i will take credit for the name "the great recession." it was the title of one of the chapters and "financial shot," which i wrote a year and half ago. i think if i said enough, i will get credit for it. çóÑiit isçó only over in a very technical sense,Ñi perhaps one only an economist could growing. the value of all theñr goods and services we produce

associate director of the hastings center and hastings center report before that and she was awarded the macarthur foundation fellowship for her work in aids research. she edited a book "always on care,," also co-edited a book of -- she has a deep personal experience with being a family caregiver, having cared for her brain-injured husband for a number of years before his death. we will then hear from robin stone, who is the executive director of the institute for the future of aging services. at the american association of homes and services for the aging here in washington, d.c. since she started the institute 10 years ago, she's developed and directed a number of national programs, including the center for medicare education, the better jobs, better care national program, funded by the robert wood johnson foundation and atlantic philanthropy. she was a political appointee during the clinton administration, serving in the u.s. department of health and human services as deputy assistant secretary for disability, aging and long-term care policy. she also was assistant secretary for aging in 1997.