petraeus: evening. on behalf of the grant monument association, welcome to this special online program to mark ulysses s. grant's 198th birthday. the grantntroduction, monument association is nonprofit that was organized in the 1990's. theis associated with organization of the same name that until it was transferred to the national park service. the dma is dedicated to the preservation of grant's tomb, the largest muzzling them in the western hemisphere. an important part of our mission is to foster -- foster education , our ulysses s. grant nations 18th president. in recent years, we revised the tradition dating back to the 19th century to commemorate grant's birthday with a dinner in new york city. the program each year has been an educational one highlighted ia, quite in which general david petronius interviews a historian about different aspects of grant's story. another annual tradition is the official commemoration of grant's birthday at his tomb. an impressive ceremony organized by the national p

petraeus: including you. prof. samet: right. gen. petraeus: the market was flooded with civil war memoirs during the latter part of the 19th century, but grant for a long time refused to write a memoir. what prompted him to finally do so? most generals who fought in the civil war spent the rest of the 19th century re-fighting it on the phage -- on the page. oneman did also not write right away. great resisted until a series of life changedn his his mind. a series of misfortunes, a fall then in 1884, and hisscandal of affirm that son was a partner in with ferdinand ward, the napoleon of finance, who was a swindler, and it was grant's money that bankrolled the firm and all of it was lost. oft summer, in the process -- he was in new jersey -- he was eating a peach and felt a great stinging sensation in his throat. he went to get a diagnosis and it was too late. he had cancer and there was nothing he could do. in order to make sure that his family would be provided for, he decided to write the memoirs. he had already written a few articl

i think history appreciates him pretty well as general petraeus said.t as a president? how was he misunderstood and under appreciated there? >> i think, willie, i think you have to understand grant was the first president after the 13th amendment which freed the slave, the 14th amendment gave them equal rights and the 15th amendment gave black men the right to vote. there were states in the south, for instance, mississippi, georgia, blacks were the majority of the population so that if blacks dared to register to vote, they would take political power. one of the great untold stories of grant's presidency is that the justice department was created under grant in 1870 and the first great crusade of the justice department was to crush the ku klux klan. grant appointed a crusading attorney general named amo amos akerman. brought 3,000 indictments and crushed the clan. this took tremendous courage. as i was saying to joe a moment ago, grant had to do this not only in the face of southern resistance but often northern resistance as well. at the end of the sec

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and we have to remember that includes jewish germans german jews who were petraeus who fought in the 1st world war so nationalism wasn't a preserve of the anti semitic minority if you like i think we have to understand is that it was a very complex situation there was a very strong and he semitic nationalist leadership the nazis and the people who went along with that but there were also people who faced incredible arts in trying to oppose this dictatorship the terror the operators of repression was enormous by the summer of 33 alone something like 100000 germans had been incarcerated so that the having tried to mount an effective opposition so here you have to see the balance if there is a small minority of active opponents there's a very large i think it's silent majority of people who just went along with it and confounded in public because they were too fearful or something should give in to peer group pressure should sit in with others and then a very significant probably it's very difficult to fit is honestly harmed stuart's disagree but it was not everybody who became lancy se

but he went in the oval office until trump, you got to put david petraeus in charge have surge. it's that the first time he's had a lot of misinformed. that i think was one of the reasons we had the search and insurgency strategy and david petraeus in charge similar to this he was able to go into the oval office and say, the context is december 2018 when trump announced unilaterally pulling out a super suppress everybody. he when and basically said trump is a visual -- not a briefing kennicott and roles other methods is look, this speech he called and looks a yesterday on an index card. >> send some suggested tweets. >> that the lot shorter. >> but so he should wear with l fields are in syria and how iran would control them if we just pulled out. mckie said trump was in the if you're giving them new information. if you give him the same old argument he will tune you out. that was persuasive. the thing about trump is his consistently inconsistent. december 2010 let's pull out. then decide to stay. then a few months later we'll pull out, no, were going to stay. i think this consis

general petraeus had the surge strategy. trump had the terror of strategy with china.atch this entire hearing and it's frustrating because they have set this trap with tests. we would have gotten the test sooner if china hadn't destroyed the virus samples in the lab, if they had shared it with the rest of the world, we could have gotten the test a lot quicker. but now here's what they are doing. now that we've tested more people than all the other countries in the world combined, they say okay, the testing rate isn't good enough. permission to make a sports analogy, dana. this is like when a quarterback goes 9 for 10 for 100 yards. of the opposing quarterback goes 39 for 50 for 400 yards. the democrats think the quarterback that went 9 for 10 is better because he had a better completion percentage. no, anybody with a brain will take the quarterback that had 39 completions for 400 yards. don't fall into that trap. i do agree testing needs to get better. i was disappointed with the cdc director, this guy, redfield. i don't get a good feeling about him. they have the last

ulysses-esque grants birthday, the grant monument association holds a discussion between general david petraeusnd elizabeth samet. this event took place online. >> good evening. on behalf of the grand monument association, welcome to this special online program to mark president ulysses s grant's 198th birthday. the grant monument association is a nonprofit organized in

he said you've got to put david petraeus in charge. it's not the first time that he's had all of this influence. he was ae to say when they announced a unilateral pulling out of syria he is a visual learner. if you are giving the same arguments so that is persuasive. then we will pull out and i think that this might be helpful to. the return of going down in europe. has been using the american power. to talk abouout the book. in a sense when there's been an agreement. they understanand it or whatever but it is a great consistent theme of his. this is of course they don't share this view at all. and the rusan military offices who was involved in the sabotaging of the election. and then immediately he says it is wrong. i opened the book which is where i ca think it opened an 83 so is a where all of the highly classified discussions are out. what are the nuclear weapons posturings. both republicans and democrats have agreed that it makes sense. they didn't have this border to work against us and they started shouting and saying the chine

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that i think was one of the reasons we had the surgeon counterinsurgency strategy with david petraeus in charge in iraq. he was able to go into the oval office and say, the context here is december 2018 when trump announces unilaterally pulling out of scenery which suppress everybody in his own cabinet and all our allies. he rolls out a map and says -- >> has to be an index card. >> seventy page paper, , an indx card and said some suggested tweets. >> that's a lot shorter than the rethinks. >> he should wear the oil fields are in syria and how iran would control them if we just pulled out. keen said trump was leaked if you're giving him new information. if you're giving the same old arguments you'll just tune you out. that was persuasive. the thing about trump is his he is consistently inconsistent. december 2018 let's bola, they decide to stay, then three months later we will pull out, no, let's stay. this consistent inconsistency might be helpful in some realistic about less helpful if you are conducting foreign policy if your the present. when testing the book which is troup has be