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you can see this in the case of the united states. the united states was the most product i economic power in the world by the beginning of the 20th century. at that point it remained an international debtor, but during the first world war, and as david said, it's always wars that bring this about, during the first world war as the belligerence went very heavily in the united states, the united states tipped from being a debtor nation to the world's largest creditor. and the era of america's creditorship, when it was the cert of the world from the 1910s to the 1908s. and it was -- 1980s. and it was during that period that the dollar and american diplomats wrote the rules of the international financial system, specifically the bretton woods system that originated at the end of the second world war. at that time america's industrial production, america's industrial gdp was roughly equal to that of the rest of the world combined. and with that kind of leverage, the united states was in a position to dictate to the rest of the world. the
you can see this in the case of the united states. the united states was the most product i economic power in the world by the beginning of the 20th century. at that point it remained an international debtor, but during the first world war, and as david said, it's always wars that bring this about, during the first world war as the belligerence went very heavily in the united states, the united states tipped from being a debtor nation to the world's largest creditor. and the era of america's...
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those deaths were curtailed by the free food united states sent over after the war. the economy recovered and we cut the federal deficit during 1946 through 47. slightly because the revenue so much exceeded expectations. what i say is we have a lot during gold were to four lessons for today what works and what doesn't or the taxes we have come to expect, the economic bill of rights, the right to education was a student loan program, it changes with the housing to a decent home going with urban renewal than the community reinvestment act of the '70s to promise very low interest rates to poor people so they could have homes to a accelerate the mortgage crisis that becomes an hinge to and the right to medical care so i simply say the politics of today have happily shaped from world or to but if you study more carefully, said we got out of the great depression by freeing up the economy to cut tax rates not by following the prescription to increase and perpetuate the high economic growth that we experienced during world war ii. thank you. [applause] >> host: thank you. no
those deaths were curtailed by the free food united states sent over after the war. the economy recovered and we cut the federal deficit during 1946 through 47. slightly because the revenue so much exceeded expectations. what i say is we have a lot during gold were to four lessons for today what works and what doesn't or the taxes we have come to expect, the economic bill of rights, the right to education was a student loan program, it changes with the housing to a decent home going with urban...
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the united states army lives in germany. if you like the german welfare system, as many americans do, good for you because you're paying for it. you free up the german military budget so they could beat their swords into welfare checks. now we have decided, we have decided we would like to live like them, but without the sugar daddy to take care of us as we took care of europe. we live on a planet in which north korea is assisting the iranians with their delivery systems and the iranians are promising to share their nukes with saddam. north korea has and undetectable gdp. it does not just have a lower gdp. it has a gdp that is not statistically measurable when you compare it with a ball. there is no gdp. all they export our nuclear technology and knocked off viagra. you cannot measure north korea's gdp, but it is a nuclear power. we faced the prospect of a world in which the wealthiest societies in history, from norway to new zealand, are incapable of defending their borders while third word basket cases go nuclear. how long
the united states army lives in germany. if you like the german welfare system, as many americans do, good for you because you're paying for it. you free up the german military budget so they could beat their swords into welfare checks. now we have decided, we have decided we would like to live like them, but without the sugar daddy to take care of us as we took care of europe. we live on a planet in which north korea is assisting the iranians with their delivery systems and the iranians are...
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it was not at all clear the united states was going to remain the united states. just a year before, 1904, there have been a secession movement in new england and some of the leaders had come to burr and asked him to join them to lead new york out of the union. there have been a secession movement in the west. the west of the time was kentucky and tennessee and mississippi, ohio, the lands over the appalachian mountains and they had in the 1780s and early 1790s flirted with seceding in becoming really a state of spain because they wanted to send their goods through new orleans which was controlled by spain and spain was not allowing american goods through. there was an act of active secession movement then. indeed, and the 1790s, there were two rebellions in pennsylvania. there was the whiskey rebellion and the freezer billion. both rebellions were led by people who didn't want to pay taxes. this is an american staple. politics hasn't changed a whole lot. but it was shocking to find the letter that jefferson wrote and he actually broke the sentiment twice in 1804,
it was not at all clear the united states was going to remain the united states. just a year before, 1904, there have been a secession movement in new england and some of the leaders had come to burr and asked him to join them to lead new york out of the union. there have been a secession movement in the west. the west of the time was kentucky and tennessee and mississippi, ohio, the lands over the appalachian mountains and they had in the 1780s and early 1790s flirted with seceding in becoming...
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the united states is still different. you know this. in the wake of the economic meltdown france rye get it over the most modest proposals to increase the retirement age. elderly students in britain attack the heir to the throne's car over the attempt to constrain bloated wasteful and pointless university. everywhere from iceland to bulgaria the mobs are demanding the same thing. why didn't you, the government, do more for me? america was the only nation in the developed world where millions of people took to the streets to take the states i can do just fine if you control the status would shove your non-stimulating stimulus, jobless jobs bills and multi trillion dollar and just say the hell out of my life and out of my pockets. [applause] that's the america that has a chance. even as american outspend us not only america's ability to pay for it but with some measures the plan at. even as it follows pretend into the trans generational dependency and failed education system unsustainable entitlements, even if it makes less and less in it
the united states is still different. you know this. in the wake of the economic meltdown france rye get it over the most modest proposals to increase the retirement age. elderly students in britain attack the heir to the throne's car over the attempt to constrain bloated wasteful and pointless university. everywhere from iceland to bulgaria the mobs are demanding the same thing. why didn't you, the government, do more for me? america was the only nation in the developed world where millions of...
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states and the united states he really believes that. eventually he started negotiating -- the accommodator in chief. that is what the book is about. why he does that. an incredible difference between him as president and as a candidate. >> your first book, bullish on the couch. >> what we learned about bush is he really was very much a person who had once been an alcoholic. a dry drunk. those are people who are impulsive and suddenly given to blaming other people and one of the things about him that was so powerful is when he made up his mind he never change this. he was an either/or president. your with us or against us. he lived in a very different world where he says i don't deal with it. obama and only does not want. we have the opposite two presidents back to back. >> when you write
states and the united states he really believes that. eventually he started negotiating -- the accommodator in chief. that is what the book is about. why he does that. an incredible difference between him as president and as a candidate. >> your first book, bullish on the couch. >> what we learned about bush is he really was very much a person who had once been an alcoholic. a dry drunk. those are people who are impulsive and suddenly given to blaming other people and one of the...
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united states which could, although it never does, hold the trial. for example, when missouri wanted to sue illinois because illinois change the direction of the chicago river setting tuberculosis down the st. louis it headed directly to the supreme court the natural born citizen clause is the fifth topic in my book. no, and the very few prerequisites for officers set out in the constitution this is the proverbial third in the bunch will. it said you can be president unless you're a natural born citizen, and you for a lot about that in the news and it's a real stupid clock. section two of the 21st amendment, the 21st of them is the one that ended prohibition, that is section with the exception to makes it unconstitutional to bring liquor across state lines or it's one of only two places in the constitution where something is made, where individual can break the constitution, which directs the eighth of individuals but the rest is about government. there's two things would go to violate the constitution. you can either engage in slavery or you can bri
united states which could, although it never does, hold the trial. for example, when missouri wanted to sue illinois because illinois change the direction of the chicago river setting tuberculosis down the st. louis it headed directly to the supreme court the natural born citizen clause is the fifth topic in my book. no, and the very few prerequisites for officers set out in the constitution this is the proverbial third in the bunch will. it said you can be president unless you're a natural...
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and as a secretary of state and i did say over and over again that the united states was an indispenseable nation and i believe it. i was in enough meetings to know if we were not a catalyst, not a lot happened. but indispenseable to me never meant alone and never meant we were you ubiquitous. but because we are rich and powerful, that we have an obligation to deal with the axis of evil of poverty and disease and health issues and globalization and economic issues. those are the axis of evil. so i'm very troubled by a lot of the things that are happening in the united states now, and that is a lot of what i write about in the epilogue. concerned about the events in iraq, concerned about our lack of activity on getting hold of the proliferation of nuclear weapons. concerned about our lack of interest in anything but military activities. and concerned generally because i go to so many international meetings about what has happened to the reputation of the united states. a country that i was so proud of and when i got to sit behind the sign called "united states," nothing made me prouder. and
and as a secretary of state and i did say over and over again that the united states was an indispenseable nation and i believe it. i was in enough meetings to know if we were not a catalyst, not a lot happened. but indispenseable to me never meant alone and never meant we were you ubiquitous. but because we are rich and powerful, that we have an obligation to deal with the axis of evil of poverty and disease and health issues and globalization and economic issues. those are the axis of evil....
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zero that 11 million, have you thinking to united states? 380,000 came directly. you are looking in my book. [laughter] you put the book down. this is like cliff's notes. remember cliff notes? 388,000 came directly from africa to what is now the united states and another 50,000 we estimate touched on briefly in the caribbean. you're absolutely right. you get the gold star. but think about what that means. all those other africans went to the caribbean and south america. at an. under no value, but when i was growing up i thought the slave trade was primarily about us. but the 40 million african-american people for the 450,000 africans who came here between 1619 and mostly by 1820. 1820, 99% of our ancestors were here. it's quite remarkable. but all of those other africans -- brazil got over 5 million africans in the slave trade. well, here is the reason that i start in 1513. because the first africans to show up in what is now the united states, showed up in 1513. and they didn't come here only a slave. i'll get to that in a minute. i was fascinated by the contact
zero that 11 million, have you thinking to united states? 380,000 came directly. you are looking in my book. [laughter] you put the book down. this is like cliff's notes. remember cliff notes? 388,000 came directly from africa to what is now the united states and another 50,000 we estimate touched on briefly in the caribbean. you're absolutely right. you get the gold star. but think about what that means. all those other africans went to the caribbean and south america. at an. under no value,...
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united states could help to make the world better longer term. so, he probably would have remained a noninterventionist, and i'm saying this as one who approached this as an editor, not as an advocate or critic of hoover. i think that one could make that kind of inference from his basic world view. >> host: you are the preeminent hoover scholar. you have written three volumes of definitive hoover biography. you know the man better than anyone. you certainly see more of his papers than anyone. is there anything that surprised you in the course of doing this project? and is there anything you don't know about hoover that you'd like to? >> guest: hmm. well, i was surprised by the emphasis he placed on the polish guarantee as a great blunder of british diplomacy. i was less surprised by his argument that we had made the greatest blunder in the history of american diplomacy by an alliance with stalin, propping up stalin, when hitler attacked. he said that was bound to lead ultimately to an expansion of communism in the world and he felt vindicated in
united states could help to make the world better longer term. so, he probably would have remained a noninterventionist, and i'm saying this as one who approached this as an editor, not as an advocate or critic of hoover. i think that one could make that kind of inference from his basic world view. >> host: you are the preeminent hoover scholar. you have written three volumes of definitive hoover biography. you know the man better than anyone. you certainly see more of his papers than...
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we have a lot of expression in the united states. when you speak out the state often times will punish you for speaking out. >> marsha coleman-adebayo has been a senior analyst at the epa for ten years and she claims it has been a decade of discrimination. >> i was an intruder in their world. i could participate in high-level staff meetings only because my colleagues regarded me as an honorary white man. i must admit i was so stunned -- remember hearing the laughter are around the table. >> she and other employees took their case to congress and took on the epa chief carol browner. >> perhaps they had all tier mode of. >> she told us she was unaware of any complaints. >> more than double the number of minorities. >> this agency, all living in hell. >> today i join with the city of gaithersburg in honoring one person, dr. marsha coleman-adebayo, a leader in the struggle for civil rights. >> these attacks were meant to break my spirit but i decided instead to struggle for human dignity and integrity. >> marsha coleman-adebayo won a his
we have a lot of expression in the united states. when you speak out the state often times will punish you for speaking out. >> marsha coleman-adebayo has been a senior analyst at the epa for ten years and she claims it has been a decade of discrimination. >> i was an intruder in their world. i could participate in high-level staff meetings only because my colleagues regarded me as an honorary white man. i must admit i was so stunned -- remember hearing the laughter are around the...
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of the united states has not issued a letter of mark it almost 200 years. that is it. that is all i have for crime happy to take questions if people have them. the floor is open for questions now. remember this is on national television so this is your choice and also realitnyur shows monitor closely booktv to get future contestants. [laughter] >> a couple months ago i am wondering do think it is unconstitutional to be intuti the national guard and served in the senate?time secondly, do you have thoughts why is only a constitutional to be in the executive and legislative branch at the same time? john marshall was secretary of state and chief justice at the same time. >> i think first of all, thank you for that blog post. what is it? okay. a [laughter] apparently you asked himt face to face are you in violation of the into probability cause cause -- incompatibility clause? >> he blu me off. >> i have not the y independent research on the national guard question.ep i am feeling it probably is by have not done the work that i feel confident to say that on my own behalf bu
of the united states has not issued a letter of mark it almost 200 years. that is it. that is all i have for crime happy to take questions if people have them. the floor is open for questions now. remember this is on national television so this is your choice and also realitnyur shows monitor closely booktv to get future contestants. [laughter] >> a couple months ago i am wondering do think it is unconstitutional to be intuti the national guard and served in the senate?time secondly, do...
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i do feel that you disparage the democracy in the united states. i've been working on a southside chicago for about 15 years and i think the promise that has been made, in my area, is substantial and been done in a democracy. i feel that obama has all sorts of problems. yet at the same time i think he is a leader, of significance. and i'm sorry that you seem to be against democracy being practiced in the united states. >> guest: well, i wish democracy was practice, and should become in the united states. and i certainly feel that i, as a writer any citizen, am fighting as hard as i can to reinstate democratic prerogatives, and democratic rights that have been taken from us. not simply by obama. this up in something that has been going on for a while. but i think we have to restore power to the citizenry by wresting it away from corporations began to do believe obama has been complicitous in the diminishing of our rights and of our political power. >> host: next call comes from anchorage, alaska. you're on booktv with chris hedges. it helps if i pus
i do feel that you disparage the democracy in the united states. i've been working on a southside chicago for about 15 years and i think the promise that has been made, in my area, is substantial and been done in a democracy. i feel that obama has all sorts of problems. yet at the same time i think he is a leader, of significance. and i'm sorry that you seem to be against democracy being practiced in the united states. >> guest: well, i wish democracy was practice, and should become in...
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united states and haiti. now one of them has become probably the most powerful country in the world, and one of them has become very trampled upon and poor. it was, it had, it's had those origins as well in one sense, but also glorious origins, right? so that historical trajectory has really pulled these two peoples apart when they should have been, you know, allied as the haitians were with the independence movements in south america with bolivar. so my answer to that question as usual, someone said to me con decision is not your strong suit. we don't have to be stuck in that, you know? and i think there are people in the u.s. government who are changing those policies and making them better and having them be based on, you know, again, knowledge of that allergy. >> i have a perfect way to end this. it's a follow-on to that question where you were fantasizing about there were some bad scenario possibilities, give me the good one. everything goes right, everything's perfect, we're in the year 2015. >> yeah. w
united states and haiti. now one of them has become probably the most powerful country in the world, and one of them has become very trampled upon and poor. it was, it had, it's had those origins as well in one sense, but also glorious origins, right? so that historical trajectory has really pulled these two peoples apart when they should have been, you know, allied as the haitians were with the independence movements in south america with bolivar. so my answer to that question as usual,...
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the united states was in a basic way the only winner of world war ii and the united states stood atop a pinnacle of economic power. the american economy continued to grow after 1945 so you could say the top of the mountain got taller but the slopes of the mountain are taller faster so by the early 1970s america had a third world gdp and would continue to decline and it is down to around a fifth of world gdp now. under these circumstances it is quite unrealistic to expect that the dollar will continue to have its way that it had 60 years ago. this doesn't mean the united states will be knocked from its perch immediately and entirely. there is no single currency that is a viable alternative to the dollar. at least not at the moment. much more likely there will be a market basket of currency or the individual sovereign debt or sovereign will fund and people who have large foreign currency holdings diversify. instead of holding dollars they hold dollars and euros. more or less inevitable. there are three hundred million people in the united states and seven billion people in the world. un
the united states was in a basic way the only winner of world war ii and the united states stood atop a pinnacle of economic power. the american economy continued to grow after 1945 so you could say the top of the mountain got taller but the slopes of the mountain are taller faster so by the early 1970s america had a third world gdp and would continue to decline and it is down to around a fifth of world gdp now. under these circumstances it is quite unrealistic to expect that the dollar will...
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>> well, it's particularly significant in the united states. you may have seen an article in "the new york times" i think maybe yesterday which reported what's a been an open secret for a long time, that the united states is simply off the planet on this issue. just about every country in some fashion or another is trying to do something about the very serious problem of environmental -- global warming and environmental catastrophe. they're doing it in different ways. we should be, perhaps, ashamed of the fact that the country that's in the lead on this is the poorest country in south america, bolivia. they've gone to the extent of passing legislation that nature has rights, and we have to observe the rights of nature. well, you know, sophisticated westerners can laugh about this, but the last laugh's going to be on us. the poorest country in south america's taking the international lead. other countries are doing various things. we're not only not taking the lead as we should, but we're dragging it down. the united states is alone in tearing a
>> well, it's particularly significant in the united states. you may have seen an article in "the new york times" i think maybe yesterday which reported what's a been an open secret for a long time, that the united states is simply off the planet on this issue. just about every country in some fashion or another is trying to do something about the very serious problem of environmental -- global warming and environmental catastrophe. they're doing it in different ways. we should...
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the united states is a nation. right? the colonies kept expanding, and more territories was conquered, and the native americans pushed back and mexico americans corn kerred and new states adds, so as a consequence, of the way we developed as nation, the political leaders of the different states -- if you were settlers going to set up the territory that would become the state of kentucky, or the state of oklahoma, or the state of mississippi, you didn't want the media companies back in new york and the east coast dictating what news and information your people would receive. you wanted your own local media. so the united states initially developed a most decentralized media system and earl newspapers of any country in the history of the world, and had the most newspapers per capita. newspapers were everywhere in the united states in the 19th 19th century because the government was subsidizing their delivery and the people wanted it because of the federal nature of the american system. so haas what happened is we developed
the united states is a nation. right? the colonies kept expanding, and more territories was conquered, and the native americans pushed back and mexico americans corn kerred and new states adds, so as a consequence, of the way we developed as nation, the political leaders of the different states -- if you were settlers going to set up the territory that would become the state of kentucky, or the state of oklahoma, or the state of mississippi, you didn't want the media companies back in new york...
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america had the expansive view of what the united states might become. we would become really big or be the break up. it is important to keep in mind how it would turn out is no means predetermined. but into this situation weout find aaron burr. he came from a very distinguished family. not wealthy but distinguish.ame his president was president of what is now princeton new jersey. his grandfather president of the same college. his grandfather is a great theologian who told us we're all sinners in thepr hands of an angry god.was which is unsettling. burr as a teen-ager ran off to join the continental army and joined an expedition into canada in the dead of winter one of the most difficult expeditions in history and one great distinction. all the was small weightman he was extremely tough and hardy and had a real military disposition. was a age of 21, he colonel in the continental army. he commanded a regiment.l in and men who served with him for decades thereafter viewed him with great law and respect as a wonderfult al successful courageous officer. he
america had the expansive view of what the united states might become. we would become really big or be the break up. it is important to keep in mind how it would turn out is no means predetermined. but into this situation weout find aaron burr. he came from a very distinguished family. not wealthy but distinguish.ame his president was president of what is now princeton new jersey. his grandfather president of the same college. his grandfather is a great theologian who told us we're all sinners...
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secondly timing was perfect in connection with the united states as well as austria. and the nodes to glock at the time he started work on the pistol police departments across the united states in the 1980s were experiencing sharply rising crime rates. in particular increasing gun violence related to trafficking and crack cocaine. it became almost conventional wisdom in 1985-'86 in cities like new york, los angeles, chicago and miami that the police were outgunned. the bad guys had more powerful weapons than the good guys. the cops were using smith and wesson, 5 or 6 round revolvers of the sort they used 75 or 80 years. they needed something new and here came gaston glock with the pistil of the future. in jacksonville a young officer in 1986 was given the assignment to they term which gun should replace the smith and wesson that the sheriff's office had used for generations. his name was john rutherford. let me tell you about the process. he chose the new gun. gun manufacturers from all over the world said the sheriff's office latest model. a dozen in all. rutherford
secondly timing was perfect in connection with the united states as well as austria. and the nodes to glock at the time he started work on the pistol police departments across the united states in the 1980s were experiencing sharply rising crime rates. in particular increasing gun violence related to trafficking and crack cocaine. it became almost conventional wisdom in 1985-'86 in cities like new york, los angeles, chicago and miami that the police were outgunned. the bad guys had more...
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one guy controlled all the bicycles in the united states. not schwinn, this guy was -- his name was colonel pope in hartford, connecticut. he had the patent rights to the bicycle. and if anybody in kansas or in missouri or in idaho wanted to build or buy or sell a bicycle, we're now paying him off. he would send his lawyers to litigate. well, at the same time, there was a battery monopoly, and the battery monopoly also blood up and litigated all the people who were making batteries because at that time -- does everybody know what a battery is? how a battery works? okay. do you know how you know how does battery run? it's like how electricity is of run, throughout wall. >> it's a chemical reaction. >> well, it's two disparate metals connected by an appropriate metal. there's a charge and a discharge. and they used to call a battery wireless. and they called it a wireless because you're able to have electricity stored away from the generating source. and that proliferated the batteries along the railroad lines through something called the tele
one guy controlled all the bicycles in the united states. not schwinn, this guy was -- his name was colonel pope in hartford, connecticut. he had the patent rights to the bicycle. and if anybody in kansas or in missouri or in idaho wanted to build or buy or sell a bicycle, we're now paying him off. he would send his lawyers to litigate. well, at the same time, there was a battery monopoly, and the battery monopoly also blood up and litigated all the people who were making batteries because at...
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so however unprepared the united states was, that's in fact what they did. of course, the first thing they do in the summer of 1812 is say, ok, even if we're sort of reluctant getting into this war, and even if we're not too militarily prepared, maybe by just going ahead and declaring war great britain will back off on some of these issues on the high seas and maybe we can go ahead and seize part of canada. well, of course what happens is that three invasion attempts in the summer of 1812 to invade canada from detroit, from niagara falls and north into lake sham plain all fail. now, that brings us back to zebulon pike in the summer of 1813. all of us here 234 colorado and many across the country associate pike with the high mountain in colorado that bears his name. well, as paul harvey would say, here's the rest of the story. pike, after his travels out in the west, remained in the army and remained a regular in the army and by 1812 and 1813, he's a brigadier general leading an invasion of canada from sacramentos harbor on lake ontario toward york. york in t
so however unprepared the united states was, that's in fact what they did. of course, the first thing they do in the summer of 1812 is say, ok, even if we're sort of reluctant getting into this war, and even if we're not too militarily prepared, maybe by just going ahead and declaring war great britain will back off on some of these issues on the high seas and maybe we can go ahead and seize part of canada. well, of course what happens is that three invasion attempts in the summer of 1812 to...
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in the united states guns are much more than a told law enforcement or an article of commerce. they are embedded in the country's history. by the time the constitution is frame become a tradition of private fire ownership was an aspect of daily life and of american identity. citizens soldiers defeated the british beginning with the shot heard around the world. the second amendment enshrining the principal of an unarmed populace. folklore nurtured the tradition. god may have created all men the same, but sam may be equal. guns have represented freedom and individualism and self-reliance. the revolvers stand for the world persistence of pulp fiction detectives in the depression. henry allen a pulitzer prize-winning critic has observed. he himself as a marine veteran who shoots guns recreational the continued this election are the letcher bid of the cowboy, the double barrel shotgun is the grandfather taking his with a known elegance through the brush in search of the whale a 22 is the innocence of childhood, that spattered in ways of the rifle range of boy scout camp and afterwor
in the united states guns are much more than a told law enforcement or an article of commerce. they are embedded in the country's history. by the time the constitution is frame become a tradition of private fire ownership was an aspect of daily life and of american identity. citizens soldiers defeated the british beginning with the shot heard around the world. the second amendment enshrining the principal of an unarmed populace. folklore nurtured the tradition. god may have created all men the...
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we put them on a map of the united states. and then they started appearing as a different kind of united states were geography since we began to think about as an alternative to a record three of the united states. actually 50 miles north near fort meade which is the national security agency agency, and the electronic eavesdroppers from others around the world and in the united states are located. and has doubled after 9/11. when it did start to grow this of agencies started to grow as well and then a contractors started to grow and wanted to be close to the agency said you had a clustering effect that was the toughest part the whole eastern seaboard and in another place is like colorado outside of denver it is the largest federal top-secret agency's center in the country outside of the east coast or outside of denver. this is what we called "top secret america." then besides the numbers which are large and 1/3 was created after 9/11, we can talk about that also, we wanted to say it is big and expensive, where it is some of th
we put them on a map of the united states. and then they started appearing as a different kind of united states were geography since we began to think about as an alternative to a record three of the united states. actually 50 miles north near fort meade which is the national security agency agency, and the electronic eavesdroppers from others around the world and in the united states are located. and has doubled after 9/11. when it did start to grow this of agencies started to grow as well and...
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they are in the united states. the israelis favor as probably the best coverage of any paper in the country. all of these are written by israelis used. these are really to agree to a great journalists. they do is real credit. so i think that the frustration for many of us is that we saw possibilities in the relationship. i knew king hussein. the assassination, we watch that hope essentially vanished. israel, as the united states, as it to become captive to a really rapacious redwing. the israeli foreign minister who is openly called for the ethnic cleansing of israeli and palestinians, this was unthinkable when i first got to jerusalem. for me is really a debate about the health of the middle east and the israelis did itself. i don't think they're responding to injustice to the use of force of the occupation is in the long term productive for the state of israel itself, yet at the same time, of course, i adamantly opposed, and there are those within the arab world to call for the destruction of the state of israel.
they are in the united states. the israelis favor as probably the best coverage of any paper in the country. all of these are written by israelis used. these are really to agree to a great journalists. they do is real credit. so i think that the frustration for many of us is that we saw possibilities in the relationship. i knew king hussein. the assassination, we watch that hope essentially vanished. israel, as the united states, as it to become captive to a really rapacious redwing. the...
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he has also been an officer in the united states army reserve. from 2007 to 2009, he was a counselor, was counselor of the department of state serving as secretary condoleezza rice's senior adviser on strategic issues. and i must not forget he is also the founding director of the phillip merrill center for strategic studies here at sais. he also has dope a lot of -- done a lot of things in academia, but i didn't add those things in. [laughter] our first discussant is tom ricks. he is the author of a number of very successful books on the u.s. military including, for example, these are the titles, "fiasco," "the gamble," "making the core." all of these have been bestsellers. he has served on the staff of "the wall street journal" for some 17 years. more recently, he's been with "the washington post." he is currently a fellow at the center for new american security and is a contributing editor to foreign affairs -- excuse me, "foreign policy" magazine of which he writes the blog, "the best defense." finally, our third participant, nicholas wester b
he has also been an officer in the united states army reserve. from 2007 to 2009, he was a counselor, was counselor of the department of state serving as secretary condoleezza rice's senior adviser on strategic issues. and i must not forget he is also the founding director of the phillip merrill center for strategic studies here at sais. he also has dope a lot of -- done a lot of things in academia, but i didn't add those things in. [laughter] our first discussant is tom ricks. he is the author...
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of that 11 million, how many do you think came to the united states? >> 500. >> 338,000 came directly -- you were looking at my book. [laughter] you put the book down. cliff notes, do you remember cliff notes? [laughter] 388,000 came directly from africa to what's now the united states, and another 50,000, we estimate, touched down briefly in the caribbean, 450,000 -- you're absolutely right. you get the gold, you get the gold star. but think about what that means. all those other africans went to the caribbean and to south america. i don't know about you, but when i was growing up, i thought the slave trade was primarily about us. but the 40 million african-american people descend from those 450,000 africans who came here between 1619 and mostly by 1820. by 1820, 99% of our ancestors were here. it's quite remarkable. but all of those other africans, brazil got over five million africans in the slave trade. well, here is the reason that i start in 151. 1513. because the first africans who show up in what is now the united states showed up in 1513. and
of that 11 million, how many do you think came to the united states? >> 500. >> 338,000 came directly -- you were looking at my book. [laughter] you put the book down. cliff notes, do you remember cliff notes? [laughter] 388,000 came directly from africa to what's now the united states, and another 50,000, we estimate, touched down briefly in the caribbean, 450,000 -- you're absolutely right. you get the gold, you get the gold star. but think about what that means. all those other...
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why should arnold short snake or not be able to be the president of the united states? maybe there's some reason. but then isn't that he was born in austria. so that's why. i mean, the original constitution says in fact i can't know exactly what it says, but basically there is an exception to other people who ended up being president for his however many presidents were not natural born citizens. they were all born in england. the first citizen that was martin van buren. you know, there's that famous people were not loyal to the united states because they were born abroad? i don't think there's any necessary connection, whatever that might mean and loyalty or duty to the country. this year it seems was they would be a foreign prince would be brought in from france, napoleon's nephew or something like that is an apocryphal story. that's not quite right, but almost right. bigger is not really my forte. so, a foreign -- i don't think we need to really worry about that much. we have for example the elections that could handle that problem. so i think it's really stupid. it
why should arnold short snake or not be able to be the president of the united states? maybe there's some reason. but then isn't that he was born in austria. so that's why. i mean, the original constitution says in fact i can't know exactly what it says, but basically there is an exception to other people who ended up being president for his however many presidents were not natural born citizens. they were all born in england. the first citizen that was martin van buren. you know, there's that...
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education is the biggest single structural defect in the united states right now. no country needs to send a majority, never mind all as it is president obama's condition all of its children to college and no country should. because every child as the not to toot to benefit and not every child who has the up to two wants to go or needs to. and for most who live there, colleges a waste of time and money and life. they pretend to teach, slackers pretend to learn and they pretend it's an education. american individuals hold a trillion dollars just in kawlija debt. that's the equivalent of a g7 economy. just in one small boutique market of debt. you recall that for far she ascended to the throne of the first lady, michelle obama worked for the university of chicago hospitals. she wasn't a nurse or a doctor, she wasn't even a janitor. she was taken on by the hospitals to run, quote, programs for community relations, neighborhood outreach, staffed diversity and minority contracting. she was a diverse, booming industry in the elite america. in 2005 just as her husband was
education is the biggest single structural defect in the united states right now. no country needs to send a majority, never mind all as it is president obama's condition all of its children to college and no country should. because every child as the not to toot to benefit and not every child who has the up to two wants to go or needs to. and for most who live there, colleges a waste of time and money and life. they pretend to teach, slackers pretend to learn and they pretend it's an...
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in the 1950's, the united states becomes increasingly involved in afghanistan through a. and through the 1960's that becomes a kind of competition with soviet aid, which is coming in from the north. so through the 50's and 60's there is a kind of friendly cold war rivalry which afghanistan benefited from in many ways by playing these two off of each other. obviously things change in 1978 with the overthrow of the afghan markey and the assumption of power. the afghan communist party. at this point in time afghanistan goes over to the wrong side, as it were. the u.s. takes a hostile out posture which becomes even more high style with the soviet invasion in december of 1979. during the soviet occupation of the united states supplied and supported the anti-soviet lydian, as they call themselves, who waged a guerrilla war. in 1985 they lost something called operation cyclone which was a clandestine support program which supplied the fighters with weapons in cash to the pakistan eight and the service intelligence agencies. was the soviets withdrew in 1989 they continued to supp
in the 1950's, the united states becomes increasingly involved in afghanistan through a. and through the 1960's that becomes a kind of competition with soviet aid, which is coming in from the north. so through the 50's and 60's there is a kind of friendly cold war rivalry which afghanistan benefited from in many ways by playing these two off of each other. obviously things change in 1978 with the overthrow of the afghan markey and the assumption of power. the afghan communist party. at this...
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but they are in the united states. the newspaper, the israeli newspaper, i think has probably the best coverage of the palestinians of any paper in the country. and all of these articles are written by israeli jews. danny rubinstein, gideon levy, these are really great, great, great journalist. and to israel credit. so, i think that the frustration for many of us old middle east end is that we saw possibilities in oslo and in the relationship between yitzhak rabin and king hussein, and i knew king hussein and covered rabin. and with the assassination of rabin, we watched that hope essentially vanished. and israel, as the united states has, essentially become captive to a really rapacious right wing. for instance, the israeli foreign minister who is openly called for the ethnic cleansing of israeli arabs and palestinians, this was unthinkable when i first got to jerusalem in 1980. for me it's really a debate about the health of the middle east and the health of the middle east it's a. i don't that responding to historic
but they are in the united states. the newspaper, the israeli newspaper, i think has probably the best coverage of the palestinians of any paper in the country. and all of these articles are written by israeli jews. danny rubinstein, gideon levy, these are really great, great, great journalist. and to israel credit. so, i think that the frustration for many of us old middle east end is that we saw possibilities in oslo and in the relationship between yitzhak rabin and king hussein, and i knew...
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in the mexican war camelot and that became part of the united states as well. so you had that migration and at the same time you had good people that became known as the donner party. anyone here heard of the donner party? for those of you not familiar with them, they became cannibals' eventually. off they were unusual as most of the people who went west war broke. nobody really knows what the donners themselves or the reads who were part of the donner party, why they would migrate. they got half way across the plains and almost across the rockies. the writings of a man called hastings. i want to say leonard hastings but forgive me for for getting that name. he thought he was -- going to track these people out to california where he would be the king and the president or whatever. he wrote a pamphlet in book form explaining there was something called the hastings cut off before the great sierra mountains. they could save 500 miles in the wagon trains. what was not said was hastings had never taken this hastings cut off at that point. when people finally did the
in the mexican war camelot and that became part of the united states as well. so you had that migration and at the same time you had good people that became known as the donner party. anyone here heard of the donner party? for those of you not familiar with them, they became cannibals' eventually. off they were unusual as most of the people who went west war broke. nobody really knows what the donners themselves or the reads who were part of the donner party, why they would migrate. they got...
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the united states has not issued a letter of mark or reprisal in almost 200 years. sorry, that's it. so that's all i have. i'm happy to take questions if people have them. the floor is open for questions now. and, remember, this is, you know, this is on national tv, so this could be your chance to have your voice on national tv, and, you know, actually reality shows, the producers of reality shows monitor closely booktv to see, you know, get future contestants. [laughter] i mean, that's how snooki got on, a reading at the tattered cover. [laughter] yes. >> a couple months ago scott brown just being ineligible -- >> oh, right. [laughter] >> i'm wondering, do you think it's unconstitutional for him to both be in the national guard and serve in the senate, and secondly, do you have any thoughts on why it's only unconstitutional to be in the executive branch and the legislative branch at the same time? because john marshall was secretary of state and chief justice at the same time. >> um, well, okay. so i think -- so, first of all, thank you for that blog post. it was a
the united states has not issued a letter of mark or reprisal in almost 200 years. sorry, that's it. so that's all i have. i'm happy to take questions if people have them. the floor is open for questions now. and, remember, this is, you know, this is on national tv, so this could be your chance to have your voice on national tv, and, you know, actually reality shows, the producers of reality shows monitor closely booktv to see, you know, get future contestants. [laughter] i mean, that's how...
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it is currently standard reading and all the war colleges of the united states armed workforce. and your book is called "decoding clausewitz." why? >> well, it's called "decoding clausewitz" because i think that "on war" has been very badly misunderstood. and it's not like it's just any common book. we misunderstand many books, but this book because of it place to american military education. for it to be misunderstood, has a real world consequences that are despicable. one of them miss conceptions is he is a proponent of the offenses. and when, in fact, the very reverse is the case, but he is a great proponent of the defense as a stronger form of war. and in particular, he argues that if the defender is willing to resort to guerrilla warfare, there is no such thing as a decisive victory for the attacker. >> what does that mean? >> well, it means that clausewitz believed that your main army could be defeated. your country could be occupied, and your capital in the hands of the enemy. but if you have the will to resist, if necessary army our own population, that in the end the at
it is currently standard reading and all the war colleges of the united states armed workforce. and your book is called "decoding clausewitz." why? >> well, it's called "decoding clausewitz" because i think that "on war" has been very badly misunderstood. and it's not like it's just any common book. we misunderstand many books, but this book because of it place to american military education. for it to be misunderstood, has a real world consequences that are...
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there are only so many things the united states can do. that is not often portrayed that way but there are limits to u.s. power and you have regimes that are in place and countries that are in place and you deal with them on a state to state basis. we had numerous discussions about that so it looks like it is stack and the united states is reinforcing these but then they have interactions with american that say this is terrible. you can't live this way. living in fear and under oppression is not living. that was a common theme to my friends. jobs? economic performance, economic growth and self-determination, i am southern like the world war i historian i am instead of saying democracy but freedom from fear, putting the gun to the head leader will freedom from oppression. that is a component of it. how do we modernize so that we don't live under this compressive yoke of fear? a little drama. i have written about this in a couple places and ran on weekly standards blog in early march, part of this story. one of my syrian friends says how doe
there are only so many things the united states can do. that is not often portrayed that way but there are limits to u.s. power and you have regimes that are in place and countries that are in place and you deal with them on a state to state basis. we had numerous discussions about that so it looks like it is stack and the united states is reinforcing these but then they have interactions with american that say this is terrible. you can't live this way. living in fear and under oppression is...
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he's the president of the united states. [laughter] i'm just a journalist. look, i think there's a couple of differences. i mean similarities obviously, interracial family, academics his parents also came a from that world, a brilliant, but very troubled father. one big difference in the stories is that, as you say, obama really never knew his father. his father abandoned them when he was very small and encountered him a couple of times very briefly, and his story which he tells to beautifully in "dreams of my father" are about the struggle of someone who grew up without a father to figure out what it is to be a man and a black man really on his own. my story in terms of the relationship with my father is the story of a very complicated 50-year up and down relationship, and my father is a real character in this book, probably the dominant character; then, you know, as you say, i think once obama, having really, as you say, had no real contact with the black american experience growing up in hawaii with an african father who deserted him, decides actually fai
he's the president of the united states. [laughter] i'm just a journalist. look, i think there's a couple of differences. i mean similarities obviously, interracial family, academics his parents also came a from that world, a brilliant, but very troubled father. one big difference in the stories is that, as you say, obama really never knew his father. his father abandoned them when he was very small and encountered him a couple of times very briefly, and his story which he tells to beautifully...
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often in the united states when we are looking at facebook and twitter we will see this but jennifer talk to us a little bit about why social media and looking at how the constitution is a ball than the founding fathers might see at how much more important social media can be seen. we are looking directly at the air of arab spring. if you are involved in reporting tell us a little bit why the social space and these questions are a lot eager than just what we may see in the state's. >> the privacy issues that were discussing tonight are very important but what's also important is these platforms turned out to be enormously powerful tools in countries where there were tremendous restrictions on freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and these are rights and freedoms that many of us just take for granted here in the united states. in egypt many people first thought they kept on talking about facebook helped spark the january 25 protest and revolution. it didn't begin with an event, an invitation posted on a facebook page. the community that, where there was tremendous discussion aro
often in the united states when we are looking at facebook and twitter we will see this but jennifer talk to us a little bit about why social media and looking at how the constitution is a ball than the founding fathers might see at how much more important social media can be seen. we are looking directly at the air of arab spring. if you are involved in reporting tell us a little bit why the social space and these questions are a lot eager than just what we may see in the state's. >> the...
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the united states did not monetize silver but it turned out that new discoveries in gold in the next half decade did increase american money supplies and prices began to rise again. so i would be surprised if an occupy wall street candidates were nominated and ran for president next year, but i wouldn't be surprised if the various grievances that they are airing became important in the election. >> they want us to wrap up what could i give david one second to comment on this? speaking as one of the 80 odd people that started up the movement in new york, yeah, if elected i shall not serve. we are not intending to do that but i think all of us would say that. the way the book and the movement are the same way, we haven't been talking about the things that are really important. we have allow the political conversation in this country to beer completely away from the concerns that people have in their day-to-day lives and i think that is what occupy wall street was about. did this change the political of the -- nature of the political conversation? if we can do that -- [applause] >> spee
the united states did not monetize silver but it turned out that new discoveries in gold in the next half decade did increase american money supplies and prices began to rise again. so i would be surprised if an occupy wall street candidates were nominated and ran for president next year, but i wouldn't be surprised if the various grievances that they are airing became important in the election. >> they want us to wrap up what could i give david one second to comment on this? speaking as...
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on that june day in 1846 your every word to became the united states of america. that is quite a mouthful. he went down the santa fe trail with an army of 2,000 mounted troops end took santa fe from the mexicans. this was after the mexican war had broken out. he then marxist another thousand miles incomplete and jars territory. the old maps. peel into their lives dragons. they knew there were while the indians out there, but most americans thought of the lands that were beyond the states of the western side of mississippi to with it but it was what they called the great desert because there had been some exploration and all they farm was desert. the second thing to take away is that there were unintended consequences, said mr. unintended consequences because i try to make this point that general kearny marched out of fort leavenworth, kan. call with his army to the west, that was the beginning of the first phase, which was the political phase of the civil war. because even though when car race osama we voted for -- when congress overwhelmingly voted for the declar
on that june day in 1846 your every word to became the united states of america. that is quite a mouthful. he went down the santa fe trail with an army of 2,000 mounted troops end took santa fe from the mexicans. this was after the mexican war had broken out. he then marxist another thousand miles incomplete and jars territory. the old maps. peel into their lives dragons. they knew there were while the indians out there, but most americans thought of the lands that were beyond the states of the...
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to be born a citizen of the united states is to win first prize in the lottery of life, and as britain did, too many americans assume it will always be so. do you think the laws of god will be suspended in favor of america simply because you were born in it? think carefully about that question. when you live in the north country, when you live in a state where the weather spends six months of the year trying to throttle the life out of you -- [laughter] one thing you understand is the fragility of civilization. back in the spring, i was walking on an abandoned class six road behind my house with my two boys one morning when there was a huge momma bear to the left in the trees, and then there was a cub, and behind us another little cub, and we were in the middle, and my boys were excited. [laughter] a little scared. that's the way i feel as we embark on this critical half decade. i feel a excited, but a little scared. i wonder if our society still has that instinct of the mother bear protecting her cubs. if you agree, don't wait for a messiah to descend from the heavens in november. we
to be born a citizen of the united states is to win first prize in the lottery of life, and as britain did, too many americans assume it will always be so. do you think the laws of god will be suspended in favor of america simply because you were born in it? think carefully about that question. when you live in the north country, when you live in a state where the weather spends six months of the year trying to throttle the life out of you -- [laughter] one thing you understand is the fragility...
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they want control of not just the united states. they are not thinking about the united states. they want to control the world. and i don't think jefferson and adams and george washington were thinking about the world. i think they are thinking about the best interest of the united states of america and i don't see it anymore. >> you covered a lot of territory there. >> well, you did, too. >> went to see what i can do. >> yeah, my question is -- >> the core of your question and i write in the book that i still to this day believe in our system of government. the founding of the republic commotion so we what we must do to preserve the republic. and yet, but always messes at our people. and yet, this system really has a lot of rules in which we can play. it's pretty flexible as we've seen in the camp has some in 60 for 200 plus years and not have flexibility to adapt. but we need to understand that when we expand power for one party or one president. and you see this. remember george bush when you agree to disagree a lot of writing and conversation that unitary president v. execut
they want control of not just the united states. they are not thinking about the united states. they want to control the world. and i don't think jefferson and adams and george washington were thinking about the world. i think they are thinking about the best interest of the united states of america and i don't see it anymore. >> you covered a lot of territory there. >> well, you did, too. >> went to see what i can do. >> yeah, my question is -- >> the core of your...