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John is fired up as he discusses President Trump issuing sweeping executive orders which place employees in any federal diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility offices on paid administrative leave. He also talks about Trump repealing a 1965 order from the Johnson Administration on Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity standards for federal contractors. Then, he welcomes back actor, director, and podcast star Bob Cesca to laugh and commiserate about Trump's latest stupidity and the pardoning of the January 6th defendants. Next, John speaks with Pastor Desimber Rose Wattleton from The God Squad about the bravery of Washington Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde asking Trump during a sermon to have mercy on immigrant families and LGBTQ people. Then lastly, John chats with legal analyst Dr. Tracy Pearson and listeners about Trump, Elon Musk's Nazi salute, and other crazy mishigas. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

What does this 1973 made for TV docudrama tell us about the Cuban Missile Crisis and the events that led to Soviet introduction of intermediate range nuclear armed ballistic missiles into that island nation? What were the justifications cited by Khrushchev? Why is Cuban leadership not portrayed in the film? How did the history of Cuban U.S. relations lead to the crisis? How does the film use ambassador Adlai Stevenson's presentation of this case to show Kennedy's style of decision making? What role did the failed Bay of Pigs invasion play in bringing about the crisis? What role did attempted assassinations of Castro play? How does this film portray the Kennedy brothers, John and Robert? Did John Kennedy's desire to appear tough, in light of his treatment by Khrushchev at earlier summit meetings, motivate him to carry out the invasion? How does the film show Kennedy's team using a strategy of ‘gradual escalation' to deal with the crisis? What impact did its success in this case have upon Johnson Administration strategy in Vietnam? What does the film teach us about the unique and awesome responsibilities of the office of President of the United States?

Also in the news: Nearly 40 years after being arrested for a crime he didn't commit, a Gage Park man is suing the city of Chicago and Chicago police; City workers demand promised raises from Johnson Administration; and leadership changes are on the way for another city agency. Photo credit Tim Boyle Newsmakers

Also in the news: Nearly 40 years after being arrested for a crime he didn't commit, a Gage Park man is suing the city of Chicago and Chicago police; City workers demand promised raises from Johnson Administration; and leadership changes are on the way for another city agency. Photo credit Tim Boyle Newsmakers

Also in the news: Nearly 40 years after being arrested for a crime he didn't commit, a Gage Park man is suing the city of Chicago and Chicago police; City workers demand promised raises from Johnson Administration; and leadership changes are on the way for another city agency. Photo credit Tim Boyle Newsmakers

Tuesday, October 8, 2024 Hoover Institution, Stanford University The Hoover Institution's Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative presents To War or Not to War: Vietnam and the Sigma Wargames on Tuesday, October 8, 2024 at 2:00PM PT. In 1964, America was slowly marching towards war in Vietnam. But what if that war could have been fought differently or avoided altogether? The Sigma Games, a series of politico-military wargames run by the Pentagon's Joint Staff in the 1960s, sought to understand the unfolding conflict in Southeast Asia. These games, which involved top figures from the Johnson Administration—including National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, Air Force General Curtis LeMay, and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Earle Wheeler—offer a chillingly accurate forecast of the war's potential trajectory.  Choose your character for an immersive experience. See the game unfold through the eyes of pivotal figures such as John McCone, Curtis LeMay, Earle Wheeler, and McGeorge Bundy in this interactive event. This event introduces the games and turns to a panel of historians to explore the Sigma Wargames, their prescient warnings, and why these early insights failed to shape the Johnson Administration's decision-making, ultimately leading to one of America's most costly conflicts.  The conversation, while a look into a key set of games at a historical moment in American foreign policy, says something more broadly at the impact of wargames on US foreign and defense policy as well as how influence is created (and hijacked) within strategic decision making. ​PANELISTS H.R. McMaster is the Fouad and Michelle Ajami Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He is also the Bernard and Susan Liautaud Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute and lecturer at Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.  McMaster holds a PhD in military history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He was an assistant professor of history at the US Military Academy. He is author of the bestselling books Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World and Dereliction of Duty: Lyndon Johnson, Robert McNamara, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Lies that Led to Vietnam. In August 2024, McMaster released his most recent book, At War with Ourselves: My Tour of Duty in the Trump White House. His many essays, articles, and book reviews on leadership, history, and the future of warfare have appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Review, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the New York Times. McMaster is the host of Battlegrounds: Vital Perspectives on Today's Challenges and is a regular on GoodFellows, both produced by the Hoover Institution. He is a Distinguished University Fellow at Arizona State University. Mai Elliott is the author of The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family, a personal and family memoir which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, and RAND in Southeast Asia: A History of the Vietnam War Era. She served as an advisor to Ken Burns and Lynn Novick for their PBS documentary on “The Vietnam War” and featured in seven of its ten episodes.  She recently contributed a chapter analyzing “The South Vietnamese Home Front” for the soon to be published Cambridge University Press 3-volume work on the Vietnam War.    Mai Elliott was born in Vietnam and grew up in Hanoi and Saigon.  She attended French schools in Vietnam and is a graduate of Georgetown University in Washington, D.C.  (She also writes under the name of Duong Van Mai Elliott).   Mark Moyar is the director of the Center for Military History and Strategy at Hillsdale College, where he also holds the William P. Harris Chair of Military History. During the Trump administration, Dr. Moyar was a political appointee at the U.S. Agency for International Development, serving as the Director of the Office of Civilian–Military Cooperation. Previously, he directed the Project on Military and Diplomatic History at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC, and worked as a national security consultant. He has taught at the U.S. Marine Corps University, the Joint Special Operations University, and Texas A&M University. He is author of eight books, of which the most recent is Masters of Corruption: How the Federal Bureaucracy Sabotaged the Trump Presidency. He holds a B.A. summa cum laude from Harvard and a Ph.D. from Cambridge. MODERATOR Jacquelyn Schneider is the Hargrove Hoover Fellow at the Hoover Institution, the Director of the Hoover Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative, and an affiliate with Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation. Her research focuses on the intersection of technology, national security, and political psychology with a special interest in cybersecurity, autonomous technologies, wargames, and Northeast Asia. She was previously an Assistant Professor at the Naval War College as well as a senior policy advisor to the Cyberspace Solarium Commission. Dr. Schneider was a 2020 winner of the Perry World House-Foreign Affairs Emerging Scholars Policy Prize. She is also the recipient of a Minerva grant on autonomy (with co-PIs Michael Horowitz, Julia Macdonald, and Allen Dafoe), a University of Denver grant to study public responses to the use of drones (with Macdonald), and a grant from the Stanton Foundation to study networks, cyber, and nuclear stability through wargames. Dr. Schneider is an active member of the defense policy community with previous positions at the Center for a New American Security and the RAND Corporation. Before beginning her academic career, she spent six years as an Air Force officer in South Korea and Japan and is currently a reservist assigned to US Space Systems Command. She has a BA from Columbia University, MA from Arizona State University, and PhD from George Washington University.

Eric and Eliot host historian Luke Nichter in a special convention episode that looks back at the last time the Democrats hosted a national convention in Chicago: 1968. Nichter is the James H. Cavanaugh Chair in Presidential Studies and Professor of History at Chapman University and author of The Year that Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968 (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2023). The group discusses the dramatic circumstances of the 1968 election and the veracity of conventional wisdom about the consequential year. Additionally they cover the pall that the Vietnam War cast over the election and dissect the personal relationships between Johnson and Kennedy, Johnson and Eugene McCarthy, Johnson and his Vice President Hubert Humphrey and the wary, but respectful relationship between Nixon and Johnson. They cover the unique relationship that Billy Graham had with LBJ, Nixon, and Humphrey and probe the nuances of the Wallace phenomenon. They further discuss the difficulties that Humphrey had running as a sitting Vice President taking credit for the achievements of the Johnson Administration while at the same time distancing himself from an unpopular incumbent. The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968: https://a.co/d/9DO6moy Shield of the Republic is a Bulwark podcast co-sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia.

Chicago lawmakers have scrapped plans to build a migrant camp in Morgan Park a week after the state stopped a potential camp in Brighton Park. Meanwhile, conservative Democrats on the council are asking for the resignation of seven officials from the Johnson Administration for greenlighting construction on toxic land in Brighton Park. Reset learns the latest about housing for migrants and other news from Chicago's City Council from WBEZ city government and politics reporter Tessa Weinberg.

Temperatures are dropping in the Chicago area and there are thousands of asylum seekers and unhoused without adequate shelter. The Johnson Administration recently announced sending warming buses to locations around the city, but what else is needed? Reset checks in with leaders and volunteers working directly to provide services to new arrivals and the existing homeless population in Chicago to talk about the current situation, how we should be talking about the needs of these two groups and future solutions. If you want to listen to previous conversations about this crisis in Chicago, check out wbez.org/reset.

Today on another encore edition of the Rarified Heir Podcast, we bring you part one of our interview w/ the children of zany comedian Harry Ritz, Janna Taninbaum & Michael Ritz. The reason this became a two part episode was because of some terrible technical issues which forced us to abort our initial conversation and pick it up two days later. What's that old showbiz adage, “Never give a sucker an even break?” No, that's not it, it's “The show must go on” and true to their showbiz roots, Janna and Michael did just that. And we thank them for it. For many of you, the Ritz Brothers were a comedy/dance team that has been spoken about in hushed tones for years but unless you were born before the Johnson Administration, you likely haven't had the chance to see the Ritz Brothers perform. Due to many strange and offbeat scenarios, we get into why that's the case on this episode. But in their day, the Ritz Brothers were not only wildly popular but were some of the highest paid performers in the world. Different than the Marx Brothers, The Ritz Brothers were essentially Harry Ritz who was THE comedian other comedians influenced. From Jerry Lewis to Don Rickles to Mel Brooks, everyone said Harry Ritz was the funniest, wackiest comedian they ever saw. So let's right some wrongs here and talk about the best and funniest comedy team you perhaps have never seen, The Ritz Brothers. This is the Rarified Heir Podcast. Everyone has a story. Sometimes two!

Gardner Minshew is ready for his big chance to lead a team to wins! Kwity Paye and Bernhard Raimann may come off concussion protocol today! Indiana Football will travel to Michigan tomorrow for a game in a stadium where they last won during Johnson Administration. Sean Payton's humility tour continues! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

George Washington University lecturer Bell Julian Clement discussed American poverty policy and how the Johnson Administration's Great Society program sought to provide economic security to the poorest Americans. George Washington University is located in Washington, D.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Johnson Administration inks a $29 million contract with a bunch of Right Wingers from Florida to build tents for asylum seekers. Ben tried not to lose his mind as he riffs. Why can't we put Chicagoans to work? State Rep Kam Buckner weighs in on the deal. A few words on the end of cash bail. A few suggestions for House Speaker Kevin McCarthy. And Kam tackles the Bears. Are they trying to destroy Justin Fields' career?See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The Chicago City Council Committee on Housing and Real Estate gave initial approval for Chicago to buy land to convert a Marine Corps training center into a temporary migrant shelter. We got an update on the groundwork the Johnson administration is laying to create more infrastructure for newly-arriving migrants. We talked to WBEZ politics reporters Mariah Woelfel and Tessa Weinberg.

Host Bree Davies and state politics and green chile correspondent Justine Sandoval are breaking down all the local stories that matter this week — starting with a Democratic committee appointing Tim Hernández to the vacated 4th house district seat and Justine digs into what the appointment of a Chicano community activist says the current Colorado democratic party. Then, Bree talks about the list of 11 possible locations for short term housing that the Johnson Administration released a few days ago. Plus, we share your takes on the best way to get to the airport and what we left out on our visitor's guide. Justine mentioned DPS's current day segregation issues, which Chalkbeat covered this summer; Bree talked about the neighbors' lawsuit against the Park Hill United Methodist Church in 2021 for hosting a Safe Outdoor Space. For even more news from around the city, subscribe to our morning newsletter Hey Denver at denver.citycast.fm. Follow us on Instagram: @citycastdenver Chat with other listeners on reddit: r/CityCastDenver Text or leave us a voicemail with your name and neighborhood, and you might hear it on the show: (720) 500-5418‬ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chicago is home to a rich arts scene, but advocates say more can be done to support arts education, expand access to the arts and recognize that the arts can be a powerful economic engine for the city. Reset talks to Leslé Honoré, poet and CEO of Urban Gateways, Monica Trinidad, co-founder of For the People Artists Collective, Abby Pucker, founder of GERTIE, a Chicago arts wayfinding platform, about the ways the Johnson administration could lean into the arts. The trio are co-chairs of Johnson's transition subcommittee on arts and culture.

In this episode, I discuss a recent weekend discussion with some friends about the Ukraine War. I was the lone voice relating to my position and I attempt to identify some of their responses to my concerns in previous podcasts. We had a great discussion and we're still friends!! I'll identify some of the arguments and my counter arguments. And through that discussion, I'll discuss George Ball, the Undersecretary State during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. Ball was one of the lone dissenting voices within the Johnson Administration who accurately predicted all of the subsequent problems that actually occurred in US-Vietnam Foreign Policy. Who will be the next George Ball? And why aren't there more "George Ball" type dissenters in the media? I also discuss a segment on Colin Cowherd and relate it to Ukraine: "Where Colin was Right and Where Colin was Wrong." Who's engaging in that exercise within the current Administration?

Chester E. Finn, Jr. is a Distinguished Senior Fellow and President Emeritus at the Thomas B. Fordham Institute and a Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution. He's the author of Assessing the Nation's Report Card: Challenges and Choices with the NAEP. He joins host Mike Palmer in a conversation about the history of the NAEP, its challenges and opportunities, and the importance of having a shared set of standards for educational performance across the nation. You can learn more about the NAEP by checking out Overhauling the Nation's Report Card. We begin by hearing Chester's origin story dating back to working in the Johnson Administration and for Daniel Patrick Moynihan before starting to work with the NAEP in 1969. From there we dig into the power of "low-stakes tests" like the NAEP in providing a read on academic performance while not penalizing students, teachers, or schools based on performance. We talk about culture wars and politicization and how to avoid many of the pitfalls there while also avoiding the broad brush attacks on standardized testing as a whole. We conclude with Chester's read on recent results which are troubling before wrapping up. Don't miss this deep dive into how we get a read on how the country is doing in education! Subscribe to Trending in Education wherever you get your podcasts. Visit us at TrendinginEd.com for more perspectives on what's emerging in the world of learning.

Themen der Sendung: Ampel-Koalition einigt sich auf Gesetzespaket zur Beschleunigung des Ausbaus Erneuerbarer Energien, Bundesregierung beschließt Gesetzesänderung für Staatshilfen für angeschlagene Energiefirmen, Zwei Minister der Johnson-Administration in Großbritannien treten zurück, NATO-Botschafter unterzeichnen Beitrittsprotokolle für Schweden und Finnland, Mindestens acht Tote nach Schießerei am Nationalfeiertag in Chicago, EU-Parlament verabschiedet strengere Regeln für große Internet-Unternehmen, Italien erklärt Notstand in fünf betroffenen Regionen wegen Dürre, Tennis: Tatjana Maria gewinnt Viertelfinale in Wimbledon, Das Wetter

Themen der Sendung: Ampel-Koalition einigt sich auf Gesetzespaket zur Beschleunigung des Ausbaus Erneuerbarer Energien, Bundesregierung beschließt Gesetzesänderung für Staatshilfen für angeschlagene Energiefirmen, Zwei Minister der Johnson-Administration in Großbritannien treten zurück, NATO-Botschafter unterzeichnen Beitrittsprotokolle für Schweden und Finnland, Mindestens acht Tote nach Schießerei am Nationalfeiertag in Chicago, EU-Parlament verabschiedet strengere Regeln für große Internet-Unternehmen, Italien erklärt Notstand in fünf betroffenen Regionen wegen Dürre, Tennis: Tatjana Maria gewinnt Viertelfinale in Wimbledon, Das Wetter

Themen der Sendung: Ampel-Koalition einigt sich auf Gesetzespaket zur Beschleunigung des Ausbaus Erneuerbarer Energien, Bundesregierung beschließt Gesetzesänderung für Staatshilfen für angeschlagene Energiefirmen, Zwei Minister der Johnson-Administration in Großbritannien treten zurück, NATO-Botschafter unterzeichnen Beitrittsprotokolle für Schweden und Finnland, Mindestens acht Tote nach Schießerei am Nationalfeiertag in Chicago, EU-Parlament verabschiedet strengere Regeln für große Internet-Unternehmen, Italien erklärt Notstand in fünf betroffenen Regionen wegen Dürre, Tennis: Tatjana Maria gewinnt Viertelfinale in Wimbledon, Das Wetter

Themen der Sendung: Ampel-Koalition einigt sich auf Gesetzespaket zur Beschleunigung des Ausbaus Erneuerbarer Energien, Bundesregierung beschließt Gesetzesänderung für Staatshilfen für angeschlagene Energiefirmen, Zwei Minister der Johnson-Administration in Großbritannien treten zurück, NATO-Botschafter unterzeichnen Beitrittsprotokolle für Schweden und Finnland, Mindestens acht Tote nach Schießerei am Nationalfeiertag in Chicago, EU-Parlament verabschiedet strengere Regeln für große Internet-Unternehmen, Italien erklärt Notstand in fünf betroffenen Regionen wegen Dürre, Tennis: Tatjana Maria gewinnt Viertelfinale in Wimbledon, Das Wetter

Dr. Roger Kangas, Ph.D. Academic Dean and Professor Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies, National Defense University TNWAC Global Town Hall at Belmont University, March 31, 2022 @ 6:00 p.m. CT with Moderator, Dr. Thomas A Schwartz, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor of History of U.S. Foreign Relations, Vanderbilt University Transcript available at TNWAC.org | Support the Tennessee World Affairs Council by becoming a member and making a contribution | Sign up for the newsletter | All on TNWAC.org Dr. Roger Kangas – Academic Dean and a Professor of Central Asian Studies at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies. Previously Dr. Kangas served as a Professor of Central Asian Studies at the George C. Marshall Center for European Security in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany; Deputy Director of the Central Asian Institute at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC; Central Asian Course Coordinator at the Foreign Service Institute for the U.S. Department of State; Research Analyst on Central Asian Affairs for the Open Media Research Institute (OMRI) in Prague, Czech Republic; and as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Mississippi. Dr. Kangas has been an advisor to the Combatant Commands, NATO/ISAF, the US Air Force Special Operations School, National Democratic Institute, International Research and Exchanges Board, American Councils, Academy for Educational Development, USIA, USAID, and other US government agencies on issues relating to Central and South Asia, Russia, and the South Caucasus. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University. Dr. Kangas holds a B.S.F.S. in Comparative Politics from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Indiana University. Dr. Thomas A. Schwartz Thomas Alan Schwartz is a historian of the foreign relations of the United States, with related interests in American politics, the history of international relations, Modern European history, and biography. His most recent book is Henry Kissinger and American Power: A Political Biography (Hill and Wang, 2020). The book has received considerable notice and acclaim. Harvard's University's Charles Maier has written: “Thomas Schwartz's superbly researched political biography reveals the brilliance, self-serving ego, and vulnerability of America's most remarkable diplomat in the twentieth century, even as it provides a history of U.S. engagement in global politics as it moved beyond bipolarity.” Earlier in his career, Schwartz was the author of America's Germany: John J. McCloy and the Federal Republic of Germany (Harvard, 1991), which was translated into German, Die Atlantik Brücke (Ullstein, 1992). This book received the Stuart Bernath Book Prize of the Society of American Foreign Relations, and the Harry S. Truman Book Award, given by the Truman Presidential Library. He is also the author of Lyndon Johnson and Europe: In the Shadow of Vietnam (Harvard, 2003), which examined the Johnson Administration's policy toward Europe and assessed the impact of the war in Vietnam on its other foreign policy objectives. He is the co-editor with Matthias Schulz of The Strained Alliance: U.S.-European Relations from Nixon to Carter, (Cambridge University Press, 2009).

Continuing our series on games for Halloween, on today's Short Bite we're reviewing Jaws, a board game adaptation for the classic horror movie and novel. In this game players work together to chase down and stop the shark before...well before the swimmers get...(QUEUE THE MUSIC) Da Na! Da Na! Players: 2-4 players Playtime: 45-60 min Ages: 9+ Educational Value: Probability, strategy, cooperative, resource management Touring The World Resource Guides Check out our country resource guides to help you with your around the world journey: https://gumroad.com/homeschooltogether Show Notes Jaws - https://amzn.to/3C2eRkl (Homeschool Together Book Club) Jaws by Peter Benchley - https://amzn.to/3GdMXUX He was a speech writer for the Johnson Administration! - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Benchley#Jaws Eye of the World - https://amzn.to/3pqTiq3 Eye of the World Trailer - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBmu69NMt8c Horrific Show Notes (avoid at all costs) a.k.a. Grandma Feeding Ground Baby Shark Sweater - https://amzn.to/30IHjda Baby Shark Song Puzzle - https://amzn.to/3pudRSO Connect with us Website: http://www.homeschool-together.com/ Store: https://gumroad.com/homeschooltogether Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/homeschooltogether Facebook: www.facebook.com/groups/homeschooltogetherpodcast/ Instagram: www.instagram.com/homeschooltogetherpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/hs_together The Gameschool Co-Op: https://www.facebook.com/groups/gameschoolcoop/ Email: homeschooltogetherpodcast@gmail.com

MICHAEL LISTNER, Attorney and Space Policy Expert, Space Law & Policy Solutions During the Johnson Administration, when the Soviet Union was first testing its Fractional Orbital Bombardment System (FOBS), it was debated whether FOBS violated the Outer Space Treaty - Ultimately, the administration found that it did not Michael Listner: There are no capabilities known to the public that can counter China's new nuclear delivery system The Treaty on the Prevention of the Placement of Weapons in Outer Space (PPWT) was the closest the international community came to updating laws governing nuclear capabilities in space SAM FADDIS, Former Clandestine Operations Officer, CIA, former Congressional Candidate, Editor, ANDMagazine.com, Author, “Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA,” @RealSamFaddis Allegedly, around 600-700 Navy Seals are not vaccinated against COVID-19 - Will these soldiers still be permitted to deploy? Are vaccine mandates and the “Defund the Police” movement diminishing police forces across America? ELAINE DONNELLY, Founder and President, Center for Military Readiness Elaine Donnelly: We are seeing an inversion of priorities in the military Donnelly: This year's National Defense Authorization Act is not a simple funding bill but an initiative to merge the U.S. military with the Left's woke agenda

Histories of the Vietnam War are not in short supply. In U.S. history, it ranks alongside the Civil War and World War Two in terms of author coverage. The aftermath of the war has received a similar amount of attention, with historians noting the effect that the end of the war had on domestic politics and U.S. foreign policy. But what about shifts during the war itself? While the war dominated thinking in the Johnson Administration and overshadowed a whole host of other foreign policy issues, it did not cause them to simply disappear. Quite the opposite: Lyndon Johnson was confronted by a multitude of issues during his time in office, and the fact that those issues occurred in tandem with the Vietnam War shaped the U.S. response to them. In The End of Ambition: The United States and the Third World in the Vietnam Era (Princeton UP, 2021), Mark Atwood Lawrence fills in some of the gaps about U.S. foreign policy during the Vietnam War. While historians have noted that U.S. foreign policy became markedly less ambitious under Richard Nixon, Lawrence notes through five different country case studies that U.S. foreign policy began to shift dramatically under Lyndon Johnson, a shift that eschewed transformative foreign policy and emphasized caution. Lawrence illustrates how the Vietnam War wrought a transformation in U.S. foreign policy whose ramifications can still be felt in the present day.  Zeb Larson is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University with a PhD in History. His research deals with the anti-apartheid movement in the United States. To suggest a recent title or to contact him, please send an e-mail to zeb.larson@gmail.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode we see events start moving fast. You see a divide start to show between members of the Johnson Administration as to what to do about the problems of Vietnam. The enemy starts bombing American targets including the Brinks Hotel during the Christmas season, maximizing the number of deaths in the hotel.Still Lyndon Johnson refuses to retaliate. He still has to be convinced that a war in Vietnam would be worth it. He listens as his advisor George Ball urges him to walk away and let the Government fall. South Vietnam had become a basket case in the year and a few months since the assassination of its long time President Ngo Dinh Diem. Johnson assistant, Jack Valenti,  called it a "turnstile of leadership" as the country's Presidency was passed around, one time in just 19 days. Listen to various interviews from several Johnson Advisors, George Ball, Jack Valenti, Dean Rusk,  Clark Clifford, William Bundy, Bill Moyers, Daniel Ellsberg, and Robert Thompson all discuss how the momentum built toward the decision to commit land troops in Vietnam.  These interview snippets are from PBS's "LBJ Goes to War", and "LBJ: The American Experience", plus LBJ's actual phone calls as he wrestles with moving forward and committing troops. An act that will Americanize the war and eventually lead to 500,000 American soldiers on the ground in Vietnam, a country half way around the World. 

Even though we were already involved, this was the event that really started us down the long road to a full scale land war in Asia. Strangely, to this day no one knows exactly for sure what happened in the middle of the night on the other side of the world. Most likely, nothing. But the supposed attack on the U.S.S. Maddox and U. S. S.  C. Turner Joy led to a retaliatory strike against North Vietnam and then the Johnson Administration seeking a resolution from Congress that would unshackle it and allow it to wage war in Vietnam. Not only are the events that happened in the night shrouded in mystery so are the events that led to Lyndon Johnson's announcements and his decision to retaliate. The entire thing begged a question that was  raised against the next President in another situation more famously, but it still applies to the Gulf of Tonkin and Lyndon Johnson too. What did the President know and when did he know it? Did Lyndon Johnson's Defense Secretary, a holdover from the Kennedy Administration, ever tell him that there was  evidence that the two ships may actually have never been fired upon at all and the entire thing could have been the results of " an over eager sonar man and freak weather effects"  Here listen to accounts from the military men who were actually there that night as they retold it to the The Learning Channel in its documentary "The Johnson Tapes" and then listen to the actual phone calls to and from Lyndon Johnson and his Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, and then listen as Johnson's aids describe a man who torturously analyzed the situation trying to figure out any way he could avoid escalating  involvement in Vietnam into a full scale Land War in Asia. 

In this Series One Finale, Ryan and Jamie operate the grandest History Half-Hour yet with an hour-long special on the Vietnam War, particularly the beginning of the conflict to the end of the Johnson Administration in 1968. They look into Guerrilla Warfare, Operation Popeye and 'The Terminator'.

Sanford D. Greenberg is Chairman of the Board of Governors of The Johns Hopkins University's Wilmer Eye Institute, the largest clinical and research enterprise in ophthalmology in the United States. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a Trustee Emeritus of The Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medicine, which incorporates the School of Medicine and the Hospital. Dr. Greenberg lost his eyesight to disease during his junior year in college, yet graduated with his class the following year, elected as class president. In 2012 he instituted a campaign and prize for research toward eradicating blindness among humankind: "End Blindness by 2020." This effort gained international recognition in 2014 when it was granted a featured session on the agenda of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where Dr. Greenberg has been a regular participant. President Clinton appointed him to the National Science Board, which oversees the National Science Foundation and advises both the President and Congress on policy matters related to science and engineering. He served as Chairman of the Rural Health Care Corporation, created by Congress to bring the benefits of telemedicine to America's rural areas. Dr. Greenberg was a founding director of the American Agenda, an organization established by Presidents Carter and Ford to identify for President George H. W. Bush the six most urgent problems confronting the nation and to recommend bipartisan solutions. He also served as a director of the National Committee on United States-China Relations. As a White House Fellow in the Johnson Administration, Dr. Greenberg worked on national technology needs with the United States Departments of Defense, State, and Commerce, and White House task forces on NASA, information systems, and biomedical research. He was co-editor of the book The Presidential Advisory System, which discussed the methods used by American Presidents to obtain policy advice for the management of the federal government. His career as inventor, entrepreneur, and investor began when he invented and patented a compressed speech machine which speeds up the reproduction of words from recordings without distorting any sound. He founded several enterprises, including a company that produced specialized computer simulators and one which created the world's largest electronic laboratory surveillance network and antimicrobial profiling database. Dr. Greenberg received his B.A. as Phi Beta Kappa from Columbia University in 1962. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University, and his M.B.A. from Columbia University. He was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and attended Harvard Law School. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Sue; they have three children and four grandchildren.

Julia Sweig is a scholar and author whose latest book reveals important and often surprising details about one of the most powerful (but often overlooked) people in the Johnson Administration — the President’s wife Lady Bird Johnson. Julia’s book is entitled: “Lady Bird Johnson: Hiding in Plain Sight.” Plowing through more than 123 hours of […] The post “Hiding in Plain Sight:” scholar and author Julia Sweig on the power and influence of Lady Bird Johnson (Episode 149) appeared first on She Said / She Said.

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Captains & Leaders Is there something to the idea that the leaders in Star Trek, the men and women sitting in the Captain's or Commander's chairs, are either designed to or by default, represent our leaders in society beyond the series? James T. Kirk was born in the Johnson Administration of the mid-1960's but his swaggering, all-American masculine brio and liberal values track with the idealised image of the late John F. Kennedy. Jean-Luc Picard represents a stability within the late 1980's and early 1990's as perhaps befitting the so-called 'End of History'. Benjamin Sisko prefigures the arrival of Barack Obama over a decade later as the first black President of the United States, but who exactly influenced whom? The list goes on and there are some fascinating comparisons to be made across each series in the franchise between leaders fictional and real. Your host Tony Black & guest Mac Boyle ask whether, through Star Trek, we are able to map politically the eras and characters of the Western world's often divisive and complex points of leadership? Host / Editor: Tony Black Guest Mac Boyle Twitter: @ajblackwriter @partyapocalypse Twitter: @wemadetreks Facebook group: The Nexus: We Made Treks Listeners' Community https://www.facebook.com/groups/wemadetreks Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/wemadetreks Instagram: @wemadetreks Website: www.wemadetreks.com Twitter: @wemadethispod Website: www.wemadethispod.com Theme (c) Michael Gehrmann.

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The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families, from the Washingtons to the Obamas.By Adrian Miller It doesn’t seem right to release a new cookbook episode this week with our country in crisis. As I’m trying to understand the moment I can’t help but think about the past so I’m re-releasing this episode from December 2017. The President’s Kitchen Cabinet: The Story of the African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families from the Washingtons to the Obamas.Adrian was nice enough to speak with me yesterday to record a current introduction to this replay. I’m here to listen, I’m here to learn.———————Suzy Chase: Welcome to the Cookery By the Book podcast with me, Suzy Chase.Adrian Miller: My name is Adrian Miller. My latest book is the President's Kitchen Cabinet. The Story Of The African Americans Who Have Fed Our First Families From The Washingtons To The Obamas.Suzy Chase: You wrote when you want a personal connection to our Presidents and First Families and we believe that food, what Presidents like to eat or refuse to eat, what they serve their guests, and what they cook can be a leading indicator of Presidential character. Talk about how savvy Presidents use food to show that they're regular everyday people.Adrian Miller: Yeah, so a lot of Presidents have realized that if they are likable by the American public, it helps advance their political agenda. So I think President Obama is a great example because when he would travel, he would often do impromptu stops at burger joints, rib shacks, he loved drinking beer. That's a very relatable thing for a lot of the American public. You know if he was drinking a lot of wine, I think people would be a little suspicious and think that he was aristocratic. Another President who did this well I thought was Reagan by letting people know that he loved jelly beans. And I think Lyndon Johnson was another good example, his love of Southern food and Southwestern food and he was unabashed about praising Texas chili to the whole world. And then FDR, FDR really loved to be with the people, and there are a lot of pictures of him just eating hotdogs or just other kind of very on the street level kind of foods with other people. It shows that they have the common touch.Suzy Chase: The book kicks off with a list of African Americans by Administration who had a hand in Presidential food preparation. A couple of things that jumped out at me for example was John Adams had one African American staff member. Eisenhower had 15, and Lyndon Johnson had 31. Did the size of the staff say anything about that particular President?Adrian Miller: That is really a function of what was available through my research. So it just so happens that the Eisenhower Administration and the Johnson Administration were very good at keeping records of who worked where in the White House. So the staff is pretty much the same after, for the modern Presidencies in the White House kitchen itself anywhere from five to seven people and typically the staff would be the White House Executive Chef, the Pastry Chef and maybe the pastry chef would have an Assistant Pastry Chef. And then there would be anywhere from three to five additional people who are staff cooks, we call them Assistant Chefs now and they're a lot of cooks on loan from the U.S. Navy who cook in the White House kitchen. And so obviously Presidents that had a long tenure would probably have more cooks working for them. But the early years it's, are a lot of a mystery because there were a couple of fires in the White House over time and a lot of records got destroyed. So it really just depended what I found in secondary sources, in primary sources from the Presidential Libraries.Suzy Chase: Starting off with George Washington, his enslaved family cook was named Hercules. Tell us a little bit about him.Adrian Miller: Yes, so Hercules gets purchased as a young man. He's a teenager. And he was actually a boat ferryman but then he, Washington decided to have him made into a cook. So he starts cooking in the Mount Vernon kitchen and he apprentices under a long time enslaved cook named Old Dog. So he learns to cook and then when Washington becomes President and the Executive Residence moves to Philadelphia, Washington at first hired a white woman named Mrs. Reed to do the cooking, but I guess her food was straight nasty because she didn't even last six months. So he has Hercules come up from Mount Vernon and installs him as the Executive Chef there in the Executive Residence. The only problem was is that Philadelphia had, Pennsylvania, excuse me had something called The Gradual Abolition Act of 1780, which meant that if you were an enslaved person on Pennsylvania soil for six months or longer, you were automatically free. And so what Washington did to get around this is that just about the time the six month deadline would toll, he would pack up all of his enslaved people working for him in Philadelphia and send them back to Mount Vernon, leave them there for a couple weeks and then bring them back to start the clock over again.Suzy Chase: Talk about when Hercules left.Adrian Miller: Yes, so towards the end of Washington's second term. You know he was about to retire fully to Mount Vernon, he suspected that Hercules was trying to escape. And the reason he suspected Hercules is that, Hercules's son Richmond who was an assistant cook in the residence was caught with a bunch of money, and it was thought that would finance an escape attempt. Now when confronted by this by Washington, Hercules was like, "Oh, no I would never do that. I can't even believe you would even accuse me of that." But as punishment, Washington sends him back to Mount Vernon but not to the kitchen, but to the fields where he's doing hard labor. So this world renowned chef is suddenly making bricks, and clearing brush, and clearing crops and all that kind of stuff. So on Washington's 65th birthday Hercules escapes and I think it was very shrewd on his part because he knew there would be a lot of birthday festivities being planned, and so people would be distracted. So it's thought that he first goes to Philadelphia and then he maybe went overseas. And the only clues we have of a possible overseas trip is that there's a painting of Hercules, who is believed to be Hercules, sitting in a museum in Madrid Spain. And the painting is titled, A Cook for George Washington, painted by Gilbert Stuart. And the clothing of the African American in that portrait is the clothing of a European chef at that time, not what an American chef would have worn. But we really just don't know what happens because Washington was a very vindictive person. And Hercules knew the great lengths that Washington would go to, to retrieve enslaved people who had escaped through trickery, force, and other things. So Hercules knew that if he was going to make the mad dash he would have to really just disappear.Suzy Chase: I don't know why but I was surprised to read in your book that Washington had a really bad temper. He looks so mellow in all of his portraits. It's so funny.Adrian Miller: Yes he does. He does. He looks like a serene presence. But yeah, I read that in the work of a noted scholar named Thomas Fleming who wrote a lot about Washington. When I saw those passages about Washington's temper and how he would just have these fits of anger, I was really surprised. But then it made sense given what I've read about how he would go to great lengths to retrieve enslaved people if they had escaped, so it just kind of fit that theme.Suzy Chase: Are there any known descendants of Hercules?Adrian Miller: No. Only because, well let me just back up. I don't know if anybody has attempted to trace the descendants, because we do know that Hercules left behind some kids and a wife at Mount Vernon. But I don't think anybody's ever really tried to identify their descendants in the ways that people have tried to with Thomas Jefferson's enslaved community.Suzy Chase: So moving on from Hercules, African American cooks had to know how to make the best French cuisine. Even Jefferson's enslaved chef James Hemings was trained in classic French cooking. There was no Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking cookbook back then. So who taught James Hemings?Adrian Miller: So it's very interesting when Jefferson becomes Minister to France, this was well before his Presidency, he actually brings a teenaged James Hemings with him over to France and he has him apprentice for three years under several accomplished French cooks and that's how James Hemings gets that knowledge. And then once he's done with his training, which was quite extensive, and we have records of Jefferson kind of bemoaning that fact. He installs Hemings as his chef de cuisine at his Paris residence. Not far from I think, I can't remember if it was on the Champs-Elysées, but either very on there or not too far from it. So but what you see through during the Antebellum Period of U.S. history is that a lot of wealthy white families would actually have their enslaved African American cooks apprentice under French chefs because French food was the food of entertaining. And they knew that if they were going to establish their mark as a great host or hostess they needed to have good cooking. Even though they weren't doing the cooking, they needed to have good cooking was there from their kitchen. And so they would often encumber that expense in order to have their enslaved cooks trained.Suzy Chase: Then Hemings was freed and trained the chefs at Monticello and sadly he committed suicide. So only two of his recipes exist today, is that right?Adrian Miller: Yes so far, and as far I know only two of those recipes exist. There maybe some other recipes in some other places and I know that there's some people trying to find all of his recipes. There's an organization called the James Hemings Foundation, which is trying to collect all of this, but as far as I know there's only a couple of recipes existing in his hand.Suzy Chase: And one's for chocolate cream and the other is for snow eggs. What are snow eggs?Adrian Miller: Yeah so snow eggs is kind of a lost dessert, kind of hard to explain because I'm not a trained chef. I've definitely had other people make it, when I'm hosting people. But it's kind of a meringue type desert, I guess is the best way to describe it. It's very light. Very good. Very elegant. So it just shows the skill of this trained chef to pull off that kind of dessert without the modern equipment that we know of today.Suzy Chase: As an aside, James Hemings was Sally Hemings older brother who had a longtime relationship with Thomas Jefferson and he had six kids with her.Adrian Miller: Yeah, so many believe that the forced sexual relationship with Sally Hemings actually started in France because she came over there as a teenage girl with one of Jefferson's daughters. So many believe that, that started happening then and James Hemings would have been very aware of this while he was there because he was apprenticing and cooking at that time. So just a very troubled time for both of them. The interesting thing is people have wondered why they didn't pursue their freedom because similar to that gradual Abolition Act, that Pennsylvania had passed, when the Hemings were in France. France had something a little similar, although a third party had to intercede on their behalf. And some believe they may have used that fact as leverage from Jefferson to get a salary, and to get certain concessions about keeping the family together and other things. Other historians have written about this, but yeah so all of that is in the mix while Hemings is working for Jefferson.Suzy Chase: Do you think Jefferson was the first President who influenced American cuisine especially with the wealthy households?Adrian Miller: I'm not sure about that. I think Jefferson maybe gets more credit than he deserves for some of these things. I mean, he certainly was a foodie, but George Washington was a foodie as well. And people would try to emulate what they served on their tables, but you don't see a lot of records of what Washington served necessarily and you see more about Jefferson. And I think part of it is because some of Jefferson's enemies wanted to highlight the fact that he loved French food. And again it goes back to what we were talking about earlier about trying to cast the President as being maybe aristocratic and not having the common touch. But he certainly loved mac and cheese. He served it in the White House. He was an avid gardener and many would say that towards the end of his life he was really primarily on a vegetarian diet. And had meat more sparingly than anything. So don't have a great answer for that question, but I know that people were paying attention to his table.Suzy Chase: Last Friday as you saw in my Instagram, I made the Baked Macaroni with Cheese recipe on page 90. Now was that James Heming's recipe?Adrian Miller: It likely was something that James Hemings made because we see some elements of French cuisine in that recipe, so I, we don't prescribe it directly to him but I'm almost certain that, that's something he would have made. And I lean on the recipe from Damon Lee Fowler in his book, Dining at Monticello. That's where I got that recipe from.Suzy Chase: It was really bland.Adrian Miller: In fact, the first noted record we have of someone eating Thomas Jefferson's macaroni and cheese recipe, the guy wasn't feeling it either. His name was Representative Manasseh Cutler, he was a Congressman from Massachusetts. And he was a diarist and when he first tasted it he said it was ... He didn't say bland, but he said it was strong and disagreeable.Suzy Chase: Yes, disagreeable.Adrian Miller: I just had to play it straight history. I just had to give people a feel of what the food was like that these people were eating. It was-Suzy Chase: No, I was-Adrian Miller: ... not the goopy mess that we love today.Suzy Chase: I was really excited to make it.Adrian Miller: I understand. I understand.Suzy Chase: So Lincoln's favorite dish was cabbage and potatoes made by Mary Dines. Tell us about her.Adrian Miller: Yeah, she's a fascinating figure who I actually did not know much about before I dove into the research for this book. So she was a formerly enslaved person who was living in a contraband camp either on the board, in D.C., or quite near it. And so Lincoln went off and passed by this contraband camp as he was traveling to the Old Soldiers' Home where he would take a break from the White House. And while at that home, while in the camp, he heard Mary Dines singing spirituals, and was very moved by the music. And I guess somehow they got to talking or connection was made and he invited her to cook for him while he was staying at the Old Soldiers' Home. So she takes up residence there and she cooks for him, and then eventually she actually gets invited to cook in the White House for certain occasions. So her story was very interesting how she emerged from slavery and was trying to make her own stake in the world and she makes this connection to Lincoln.Suzy Chase: One fascinating tidbit in this book is after the Emancipation Presidents were increasingly dependent on their black cooks for advice on things such as race relations. Tell us a little bit about that.Adrian Miller: So once we emerge from Emancipation, it was a time when Republicans were pretty dominant on the political scene. And a lot of African Americans joined the Republican Party because they just felt they were more committed to their civil rights, and economic advancement, and social progress. So the African Americans become an important constituency. So we see Presidents actually taking the time to pay attention to that constituency. Now sometimes, I should say a lot of the times it was lip service, but we start to see Presidents do things that we may not have noticed before and so advisors start to emerge, and probably the most famous is Frederick Douglass. But there were people like James Wormley and others who whenever they could got the President's ear and tried to press for more advancement for African American people. Now because of the code of silence that surrounds the Presidency especially with the people who work for them, we don't have a lot of accounts of these things, but every once in a while we'll get a memoir, or some newspaper reference, or something about an African American trying to make the case for advancing the status of African Americans in the country.Suzy Chase: As a carryover employee from James Buchanan's Presidency Cornelia Mitchell was the first Presidential cook to run the White House kitchen in post-emancipation America.Adrian Miller: Sometimes the status of the White house cook does not depend wholly on the political fortunes of who they're working for. We often see that the cooks may last for several administrations. And so Cornelia Mitchell was definitely somebody who was adept at making those homemade dishes that Lincoln liked. We don't have a lot of information about what President Buchanan particularly liked, but he, evidently she was good enough for him to recommend her to Lincoln. And so the interesting thing about President Lincoln is, if you look at accounts of meals during his Presidency a lot of the formal public meals were quite elaborate, but when you hear about his private dining Lincoln ate very sparingly. He often picked at his food. Often people surrounding him who loved him had to force him to eat something to sustain his strength. I think that's just the weight of what was going on in our country weighing on him. But those times that he was happy with food it was often the food that invoked his childhood and those simple dishes like cabbage, and corn, and potatoes, and ham, and things like that. I guess he was a big fan of lemon pie as well.Suzy Chase: That's interesting because he was from Illinois right?Adrian Miller: Yes.Suzy Chase: The most celebrated African American Presidential cook of the latter 19th century was Laura Dolly Johnson. Describe her.Adrian Miller: Yeah, so she is what I would call a reluctant White House cook. So she comes on the scene because a young Theodore Roosevelt was traveling in Kentucky and he actually has dinner with a Kentucky Colonial, a guy named John Mason Brown. And Dolly Johnson was Brown's cook, and Roosevelt was so impressed with that meal that when Benjamin Harrison becomes President he actually recommends Dolly Johnson to Harrison. And Harrison reaches out or has some of his people reach out to Johnson and she just says look, "I don't want to cook in the White House. I just want to leave my private cooking job with the Colonial and start a catering business." But there was a lot of arm twisting and eventually she accepts the position. The only problem was that there was a French woman already cooking at the White House as the Head Chef and her name was Madame Petronard. And when she saw the headlines of Dolly Johnson getting hired she actually had a very American response. First she starts bad mouthing the Harrison's food habits, chief among their sins was eating pie for breakfast. And then she filed a lawsuit, this is the first example we know of, of a White House employee actually suing the President.Suzy Chase: Oh, wow.Adrian Miller: Everything got ... Yeah. I haven't been able to find out how everything shook out, but obviously it was resolved because it never went to court. But she leaves, Dolly Johnson gets installed as the cook but she only stays there for about six months because her daughter is sick, so she returns back to Lexington Kentucky to care for her daughter. But then when Grover Cleveland becomes President, which was four years later, he actually begs her to come cook in the White house kitchen and she accepts and ends up cooking there. She's one of the few examples we have of an African American White House cook trading on their notoriety after they leave the White House. In my book I show a newspaper ad of the restaurant that she ran in Lexington. And the last we really hear of her in any major sense is that when Alice Roosevelt married Nicholas Longworth, and Alice Roosevelt was the daughter of Theodore Roosevelt, we have Dolly Johnson sending her a pecan pie. I'm sorry, a Pecan cake, which evidently Alice Longworth really loved and that's the last we hear of her.Suzy Chase: In the book there's a photo of Dolly Johnson in the White House kitchen and it looked so dark, and I read that the critters were hard to keep out of the kitchen too.Adrian Miller: Yeah, I don't know if you've heard the recent reports that the White House is overrun with mice and other things. But you know the White House was built on a reclaimed swamp. So having critters around and keeping them out is a full time job. But at that time it was just so bad that Caroline Harrison actually started a campaign to have the White House physically moved to another part of D.C. She just could not deal with it. But yeah, it is a dark looking picture. That's the earliest picture we have of the White House kitchen and interestingly enough, the White House kitchen was moved to that spot by Mary Todd Lincoln in order to get more light into the kitchen.Suzy Chase: Yeah I was happy to see there was a window or two.Adrian Miller: Mm-hmm (affirmative). Yeah, when you look at the ... There must have been remodeling or something because when you look at the White House kitchen by the time of Theodore Roosevelt it seems very well lit, by that time. But even today, when you go to the White House kitchen it's pretty much, there's no widows around really in the current one, so thankfully there's electricity to light the way.Suzy Chase: So Daisy Bonner and Lizzie McDuffie loved Franklin Delano Roosevelt and he loved them. What made them a special team?Adrian Miller: I think part of it is that they really cared about the food they were serving to him and they took pride in it, which is not the case back at the White House, at least for some of the culinary team. So First Ladies were usually the ones that took charge of the food service for the President, planning menus just making sure everything was right. Making sure all the dietary restrictions were met and so on. But Eleanor Roosevelt was fundamentally uninterested in food. She was a very cerebral person. She wanted to be in policy and out there advocating for things, so she delegated the food preparation and all of that to a woman named Henrietta Nesbitt who is somebody that she met while Roosevelt was Governor of New York. And they were in the League of Women Voters together, and she just admired Nesbitt's pluck in running a bakery while her husband was unemployed. So she gets involved but evidently Nesbitt wasn't the greatest cook, and even though there was a team of African American cooks preparing the President's food, Nesbitt would come and stand behind them and correct what they did and essentially just messed up the food they were getting. So Roosevelt was pretty miserable when it came to the cuisine he ate in the White House and he would often loudly complain about it. And I think rationing had an effect on what kind of food he got as well. So when he went to Warm Springs Georgia, Daisy Bonner and Lizzie McDuffie would make sure he would get the finest Southern food and really tasty stuff, so I think he really looked forward to it. And so often he was on a diet and was prescribed certain things to eat, so Lizzie McDuffie and Daisy Bonner would make those prescribed dishes and they would look at the President and if they felt he looked peaked as they called it they would as they were serving him the prescribed dish, they would just whisper in his ear, "Don't eat that." And he would act like he wasn't hungry and would just pick at his food. And when everybody would cleared out they'd take him back to the kitchen to hook him up with what he really wanted.Suzy Chase: Pigs feet?Adrian Miller: He loved pig's feet. Yes, he loved pig's feet. And he loved the way that Daisy Bonner made them, which was she would broil, split them, broil them, butter them.Suzy Chase: Oh, my God.Adrian Miller: And he actually ... I know. He actually loved them so much that he served sweet and sour pig's feet to Winston Churchill in the White House. Churchill was not feeling the pig's feet.Suzy Chase: How did he describe them?Adrian Miller: When FDR asked him about it, he said, "They're kind of slimy, and they have an interesting texture." And then FDR said," Oh, okay. Well next time we'll have them fried." And then I guess Churchill's face just said it all. He just said, "I just don't think I'd want them fried."Suzy Chase: Yeah, I'll bet.Adrian Miller: And they started laughing. They started laughing.Suzy Chase: Is it true that President Eisenhower liked to help make his beef stew?Adrian Miller: Oh yeah, Eisenhower was probably the cook, the President who loved to cook the most. So he had this favorite beef stew that he made, it had a lot of vegetables in it. And he was quite famous for this stew. In fact, during the 1956 election the Republican National Committee released a bunch of recipe cards of this stew. And they encouraged housewives to have stew suppers across the country where they would essentially make the stew and invite their neighbors over and talk about Eisenhower, which I think is kind of brilliant. But he made this stew and he was also known for grilling. In fact, he had a grill installed on the roof top of the White House. So imagine you're walking down 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and you see smoke coming out of the White House? Well it's the President up there grilling.Suzy Chase: Just an average day.Adrian Miller: Yes.Suzy Chase: Do you think Ike and Mamie advanced civil rights during their Administration?Adrian Miller: To some extent because the Civil Rights Movement was really gaining momentum during the Presidency. We remember the Little Rock nine, the bus boycott in Montgomery Alabama. There was a lot of significant events happening. Now of course, it was never enough for a lot of people, but there were some things of progress made. And Eisenhower was really the first President to have an African American in his cabinet. A guy named Victor Morrow who worked there. So there was some slight gains, and I think it set the stage for the 60's. But I don't, of course I don't think there was enough because I wanted African Americans full participation in society and they didn't really see a major step for them until the 1960's, but there's been more and more debate about what Eisenhower did during those times to help advance civil rights. And there are quite a few scholars who say that Eisenhower should maybe get more credit for what he did in those times, again under those circumstances.Suzy Chase: LBJ was the last President to bring a lifetime African American personal cook to serve on the White House kitchen staff, and her name was Zephyr Black Wright. What an interesting figure she was.Adrian Miller: Yeah Zephyr Wright is probably the most fascinating person that I encountered during my research. And she's the one person, if I could just pick one person to have dinner with, I think it would be her because of her point in history, and her personality just comes through and I just think it would be fun to talk to her. I could just see us laughing and sharing a lot of Southern food. But she was a longtime cook for the Johnson's, they hired her in the early 1940's and bring her to Washington. And many attribute her cooking to the reason why Johnson was able to rise rapidly in Congress. So I'm about to tell you something that's gonna sound like a fairy tale. But back in the '40's and '50's, members of Congress would have each over at their house for dinner.Suzy Chase: No.Adrian Miller: And they would be collegial, yeah they would be collegial.Suzy Chase: And talk?Adrian Miller: Yeah,Suzy Chase: Wow, that's shocking.Adrian Miller: I know. And so very few people turned down an invitation to the Johnson's because they knew they were going to get Zephyr Wright, Zephyr Wright's food. But she's also in a way a civil right's advocate besides being a great cook. In addition to being a great cook, because during the drives back and forth from the ranch in Central Texas where the Johnsons lived to D.C. they would drive through this integrated South and Zephyr Wright suffered so many indignities that she eventually refused to make the trip. And so she would just stay in D.C. year round. So when Johnson becomes President and he's advocating for the 1964 Civil Rights Act, he actually used Zephyr Wright's Jim Crow experiences to persuade members of Congress to support the legislation and when he signed it into law, he gave her one of the pens and said, "You deserve this as much as anyone else."Suzy Chase: It was interesting to read that while the job was taking a toll on her health, she still had to make low fat meals.Adrian Miller: So as a Senator, Lyndon Johnson had a pretty massive heart attack and so he was on a forced diet. He didn't stick with the diet all the time. But Zephyr Wright was really in charge of keeping him happy and healthy, but making delectable food. And there's one funny exchange where she wrote a note to the President basically saying that you're going to eat what I put in front of you and you're not going to complain. And Johnson happily carried that note around and would show it to people just to prove that he wasn't becoming too arrogant because his cook was talking to him like that. But she says towards the end of her career in the White House she said that she was thinking about writing a low fat cook book, but it never comes to fruition and I just thought that would have been amazing. That time was in the late '50s to write a low fat cook book, that would have been awesome. But it just never happened.Suzy Chase: Tell us how Jackie O changed the cuisine in the White House.Adrian Miller: By the time Jacqueline Kennedy gets to the White House in 1961, she was not impressed with White House food. And she wanted it to become more elegant to take on a more French accent. So she fired the Filipino cook who was working there during the Eisenhower Administration, a guy named Pedro Udo who was essentially a military cook, I believe. And she hires René Verdon a French chef, she christened the head cook position White House Executive Chef, because before that it was just head cook, first cook, White House cook, they didn't say Executive Chef. And so menus started being appearing in French and other things. So there was push back on the French menus, so they eventually were Fonglay a mix of French and English and then eventually all English. But it takes a different turn, and so by emphasizing European cooking by European trained chefs, Jackie Kennedy I not, I wouldn't say intentionally, but undercuts the presence of African Americans in the White House kitchen because they don't have that training. And I don't think it was racism, I think it's just more about elitism than anything and just preferred tastes. But we see the presence of African Americans wane from that point in the kitchen, to the point now where there are few African Americans in the White House kitchen as assistant chefs. But there has not been an Executive Chef except for a short time when Zephyr Wright runs the White House kitchen in between hiring a different Executive Chef. We just haven't had one since.Suzy Chase: So in closing can you briefly describe the cuisines of the Bush's, Clinton's and Obama's?Adrian Miller: So I would call the Clinton's, well also let's start with George W Bush. In the public sphere it was French cooking and it was kind of almost rote French cooking. There was actually articles saying, "Hey, can we have something different for these state dinners?" It was like the same old French dishes. But the Bush's cooking, George H.W. Bush I would say was more of a New England feel. You know the Kennebunkport Maine, if I'm pronouncing that correctly.Suzy Chase: Yeah.Adrian Miller: Let's just say with George H.W. Bush, it was more the cooking of Maine and New England, with some maybe Texas accents here and there. With the Clinton's you've got a mix of Southern food as maybe the foundational cuisine, but Hillary Clinton did a lot to celebrate American regional cooking. And I think the cooking that there's to this day is really a reflection of what she did to move White House cooking in the food persona from French to more American. And then when we get to the George W. Bush definitely Texas was celebrated in the food served in the White House. But still just continuing the celebration of American regional cuisine. And then we definitely see that with the Obama's, especially in the State Dinners. A lot of the approach was to celebrate American Regional foods, but to have a shout-out to the host, the visiting country, you know have a shout-out to the favorite profiles that they were used to in maybe the side dishes or other things. And then in the current White House we don't get a lot of information about what's being served, but I would assume it's a fairly a continuation of what was in the Obama White House only because the White House Executive Chef Cristeta Comerford still works as the Executive Chef under the Trump Administration, and she's been cooking there since the George, the second term of George W. Bush.Suzy Chase: One final thing I'm dying to know and I hope you know the answer. Okay, so you know when Presidents go out to dinner at a restaurant, is there really a guy who tastes everything before it is sent out to him?Adrian Miller: There is a trained chef on the Secret Service who actually observes everything that is being prepared for the President, to make sure that it's not poisoned and that it's safe. So there's somebody watching the food being prepared. And so the chef is usually the last person to taste the food before it actually goes to the President.Suzy Chase: That's scary.Adrian Miller: Yeah, you know you hear about elimination challenges on TV, but to me that's an elimination challenge.Suzy Chase: That's the ultimate elimination challenge.Adrian Miller: Yeah, to have an armed Secret Service person watching everything you do.Suzy Chase: Where can we find you on the web?Adrian Miller: So my, I have a Facebook fanpage called The Soul Food Scholar and then conveniently my Twitter handle and Instagram handle are At Soul Food Scholar and then I have my own website SoulFoodScholar.com So I try to make it easy for people. Now in terms of the President book I do have a separate website for that which is blackchefswhitehouse.com.Suzy Chase: Everyone needs to give this book as a gift this holiday season and I hope, hope, hope, that you win the NAACP image award for this very important book. Thank you so much Adrian for coming on Cookery by the Book podcast.Adrian Miller: Thank you.Suzy Chase: Follow me on Instagram at Cookery by the Book, Twitter's I am Suzy Chase. And download your kitchen mix tapes music to cook by on Spotify at Cookery by the Book and as always subscribe in Apple Podcasts.

From the day he first stepped into the New York Yankee clubhouse in 1962 at the age of 23, Jim Bouton was baseball’s deceptive revolutionary.  Behind the all-American boy-next-door good looks and formidable fastball, lurked an unlikely maverick with a decidedly signature style – both on and off the diamond. Whether it was his frank talk about MLB front office management and player salaries, passionate advocacy of progressive politics, or efforts to convince the Johnson Administration to boycott the 1968 Summer Olympics, “Bulldog” Bouton fearlessly – and seemingly effortlessly – confronted a largely conservative sports world and compelled it to catch up with a rapidly changing American society. On the field, Bouton defied tremendous odds to reach the majors – first with the champion Bronx Bombers (making 1963’s AL All-Star team in his second season, and winning two World Series games in 1964) – and later, with an improbable post-retirement comeback at age 39 with the Atlanta Braves. But in between, it was his memorable 1969 season with the woeful one-year Seattle Pilots – and his groundbreaking tell-all account called Ball Four – that literally and figuratively changed the game (not to mention Bouton’s career) by reintroducing America to its national pastime in a profound and traditional-altering way. Author Mitch Nathanson (Bouton: The Life of a Baseball Original) joins the show for a look at Bouton’s unconventional life, and how – in the cliquey, bottom‑line world of professional baseball, Bouton managed to be both an insider and an outsider all at once.

What kind of life can you expect when your mother is the legendary singer, songwriter and actress, Eartha Kitt? Extraordinary is the answer. Kitt shares her extraordinary childhood, lessons from her always outspoken mother, Eartha Kitt, as well as standing strong during the civil rights movement, her role as the original Catwoman, being ousted by the Johnson Administration for her remarks about Vietnam, to her Emmy® Award-Winning voiceover work with Disney. Brad and Kitt share some wonderful moments and a few miracles from their own friendship, as well as relaunching her mother's brand Simply Eartha. This is a wonderful episode if you love nostalgia. Kitt Shapiro Bio: Daughter of the legendary entertainer, Eartha Kitt, Kitt Shapiro has had an unconventional journey as she continues to evolve as a successful entrepreneur, wife and mother of young adults. Founder and creator of the Simply Eartha™ lifestyle brand, Shapiro uses her mother’s words, wisdom and beauty, designing a line of ‘accessories that SAY something’ made in the USA by local artisans. Shapiro has been in and around the fashion and entertainment business all of her life. She grew up speaking French and English as she traveled the world with her mother. After studying on the road as well as at Lycée Francais in Los Angeles and London, Shapiro attended Barnard College/Columbia University before beginning a successful modeling career. She studied interior design and worked in the fashion industry before taking on the responsibilities of running her mother’s company. As president of Eartha Kitt Productions for more than 20 years, Shapiro organized and produced Eartha Kitt shows and projects all over the world. Her behind the scenes work for her famous mother was highlighted by a Grammy nomination as executive producer of Eartha Kitt’s CD, “Back in Business.” When Eartha Kitt was diagnosed with Stage III colon cancer, Shapiro became her mother’s caregiver and advocate. Eartha Kitt died Christmas Day 2008. She had never had a colonoscopy prior to her diagnosis. Shapiro has taken it upon herself to share her mother’s story and bring attention to the importance of screening and early detection. Shapiro recently served as a member of the board of directors for the Colon Cancer Alliance in Washington DC. About your host, Brad Szollose: First things, first. How do you say Szollose? It’s pronounced zol-us. From founding partner and CMO of K2 Design, Inc. the first Digital Agency to go public on NASDAQ to international leadership development expert, Brad Szollose has worked with household names like MasterCard, American Management Association and Tony Robbins, to create leadership training programs for a new generation. As a creative director, he has been the creative force behind hundreds of high-end corporate events, personal and consumer brands, and website launches. Brad is the recipient of the Corporate Identity Design Award and the Axiom Business Book Award along with various awards for website and print design. As a C-Level executive at K2, his unique management model was awarded the Arthur Andersen New York Enterprise Award for Best Practices in Fostering Innovation Amongst Employees (Workforce Culture). Brad continues to challenge the status quo with his new book, Liquid Leadership 2.0, and his new podcast, Awakened Nation®. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Our Discord channel - https://discord.gg/mDXz6H8.Conceptualization notes when I was designing America 3.0America 3.0 is a course in which students study the history of the United States from 1970 to the present. Game-based model of instruction and work. Nearly all work is self-directed, except in "Section J" - which is to say, the entire class working together as if it were one guild (the difference between 5 and 25 man content). Students must always choose what they're learning and how they're learning it. Students level as they quest to become "level 100." When students "do" they connect by means of tags to "knowing" "Scratch work" goes in the Schoology page "Finished work" goes to the Tumblr page Students are required to attain a minimum of 100 achievement points in each branch of the knowing and the doing trunk Every 100 achievement points = 1 level? So, the minimum work grants 12 levels BUT THEY ONLY EARN "GRADABLE" POINTS ON "DO" ACHIEVEMENTS / KNOWING EARNS NO POINTS, but are required to earn a particular grade. You can't achieve level 100 without getting a boss win on one branch of knowing and 2 branches of doing You can't "know" without a "do." Without a "do," there's no way for anyone to know what you "know." Quest lines form up into 2 main trunks: Knowing Doing The Knowing trunk asks students to demonstrate that they know X about Y. The Doing trunk asks students to demonstrate that they can acquire knowledge X in a particular way or transmit or pass on their X knowledge of Y in a particular way Z. KNOWING A3.0 is about the history of the United States after 1970, but America 2.0 remains a strong part of the course and the thinking about the time period. You must reach level 10 in every branch of knowing. You must reach level 20 in four of six branches. You must reach level 50 in two of six branches. You must reach level 100 in one of six branches. Levels 1-10 deal with America 2.0: background, status, circumstances, conditions, figures, realities. The Knowing trunk further subdivides into the following branches: Social Change and ReactionLevel 1: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of Black America in America 2.0 and DO. Level 2: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of women in America in America 2.0 and DO. Level 3: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the conditions facing Native Americans in America 2.0 and DO. Level 4: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of Mexican Americans (or another immigrant group) in America 2.0 and DO. Level 5: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the conditions facing gay Americans in America 2.0 and DO. Level 6: Derive 3 common threads between the experiences of these groups. Level 7: Choose 3 from previous levels (Black America, Women, Native Americans, Mexican Americans, gay Americans). What were the triggering event or events that stimulated a new consciousness for these groups in America 2.0? Why these events and DO. Level 8: What, if anything, is common between these triggering events? Level 9: Gather 15 pieces of data that inform you about the state of "mainstream" America in America 2.0. What does "mainstream" mean in this case? Derive what is common between your data points and DO. Level 10 BOSS: What qualities of the mainstream were the disenfranchised entranced by or interested in attaining for themselves? How were the disenfranchised resisting the power of the mainstream? What about the mainstream were they reacting against? DO Level 11: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American military servicemen between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 12: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American family life, marriage and childhood between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 13: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American religious and spiritual life between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 14: Derive 5 common threads between your data points. Level 15: Gather 4 pieces of data that inform you about the change in the state of Black America between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 16: Gather 4 pieces of data that inform you about the change in the state of women in American between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 17: Gather 4 pieces of data that inform you about the change in the state of Native Americans between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 18: Gather 4 pieces of data that inform you about the change in relations between native-born Americans and immigrant Americans between 1970 and 1980 and DO. Level 19: Gather 4 pieces of data that inform you about the change in conditions for gay Americans between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 20 BOSS: In the transition from America 2.0 to America 3.0 many norms were destabilized. What norms were being destabilized between 1970 and 1980? What was in transition? What was stable? Level 90 Question: Gay Marriage SCR BOSS WIN: Choose one of the following socially constructed concepts (parenting, family, gender, sexual orientation, adolescence, work) and trace all of the ways in what that concept has changed since America 2.0 began to give way to America 3.0. Trace the development of the change in your chosen concept through each of its major crisis points, how the American people have stimulated and resisted the change and speculate based on reason and sound evidence how you believe your chosen concept might continue to develop over the next ten years. CultureLevel 1: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American popular music in America 2.0 and DO. Level 2: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American film in America 2.0 and DO. Level 3: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American television in America 2.0 and DO. Level 4: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American fiction (novels, poetry) in America 2.0 and DO. Level 5: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the state of American visual arts (painting, photography) in American 2.0 and DO. Level 6: Derive 3 common concerns/foci/approaches between these different cultural media. Level 7: Find and defend your choice of 2 cultural artifacts that were culturally transformative in each of the 5 modes and DO. Level 8: What, if anything, is common between these transformative cultural artifacts? Level 9: What was the reaction of mainstream culture to these transformative moments? Level 10 BOSS: Contrast the different concerns/foci/approaches/obsessions/anxieties expressed by transformative and mainstream culture. What is common between them? What's different? What is the transformative trying to transform? What is the mainstream trying to preserve? DO Level 11: Gather the 4 most influential musicians in America between 1970 and 1980. DO: What made them so? Were they Americans? Level 12: Gather the 4 most influential films released in America between 1970 and 1980. DO: What made them so? Level 13: Gather the 4 most influential television programs in America between 1970 and 1980. DO: What made them so? Level 14: Gather the 4 most influential pieces of American fiction between 1970 and 1980. DO: What made them so? Level 15: Gather the 4 most influential pieces of American non-fiction (documentary film, monographs) between 1970 and 1980. DO: What made them so? Level 16: Gather the 4 most influential pieces of American visual arts (painting, sculpture, video arts, photography) between 1970 and 1980. DO: What made them so? Level 17: Derive 5 common concerns/anxieties/foci between these different cultural media. Level 18: Whose stories are being told in the media you identified at level 17? DO. Level 19: Gather 8 examples of "fringe" cultural practices in America between 1970 and 1980. Level 20 BOSS - By 1980, significant cultural transformation was well underway, not just on the fringes but also in the mainstream. What were fringe movements protesting against in the cultural sphere? What were they angry about? What made their vision of the United States fringe, and how would they have transformed society had they won? Level 30 - public intellectuals Level 90 Question: Network Cultures (microcultures) Culture BOSS WIN: In the transition from America 1.0 to America 2.0, major disruptions in social relations and "social truth" led to the widespread adoption and embrace of fringe cultural practices. In many cases, these fringe practices died out (Fourierism), but in other cases, they survived into our own age (Christian Science). Trace the phenomenon of cultural resistance to the mainstream and/or the emergence of cultural anxiety in the transition from America 2.0 to America 3.0, and speculate based on reason and sound evidence about the likely survivability of at least three cultural expressions in 2100. Politics in the Age of ReaganLevel 1: Who were the presidents of the United States during the Democratic hegemony? Level 2: Gather 8 pieces of data that illustrate the policies advocated by only the Republican Party in America 2.0 (before 1964) and DO. Level 3: Gather 8 pieces of data that illustrate the policies advocated by only the Democratic Party in America 2.0 (before 1964) and DO. Level 4: Gather 8 pieces of data that illustrate policies advocated by both the Republican and Democratic parties in America 2.0 (before 1964) and DO. Level 5: During the period of Democratic hegemony (1933-1969), which states consistently voted for the Republican candidate? Which for the Democratic? Did these states consistently elect Senators and Governors who matched their preferences for President? DO. Level 6: What patterns do you discern in the data you gathered for level 5? Level 7: Gather 3 examples of Republican policies implemented under Democratic administrations and vice versa and DO. Level 8: Gather 6 examples of political forces advocating change that were brought to bear against the Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations and DO. Level 9: How successful were the political forces you identified in achieving their goals in a timely manner? Level 10 BOSS: Gather 6 planks of the Democratic and Republican campaigns for president in 1964. What makes Barry Goldwater's nomination to be the Republican candidate in 1964 a watershed event in American politics. Why? How was he different not only from the Democrats but from other Republicans? Level 11: Gather 3 examples of media use by the Democratic and Republican campaigns in 1964. Level 12: Gather 3 reasons why Lyndon Johnson's reelection campaign was doomed in 1968. DO. Level 13: Gather 3 ways in which the Eugene McCarthy campaign was in contrast to the 1964 Democratic platform. DO. Level 14: Gather 5 ways in which the Robert Kennedy campaign was in contrast to the 1964 Democratic platform. DO. Level 15: Contrast the Robert Kennedy who ran for president in 1968 with the Robert Kennedy appointed Attorney General in his brother's administration in 1960. DO. Level 16: Assess why the Democratic convention of 1968 transpired as it did. DO. Level 17: Gather 5 planks of the George Wallace campaign and DO. Level 18: Gather 6 decisions taken by Richard Nixon as President of the United States. DO: How many of your 6 decisions gathered were congruent with Johnson Administration policies? Level 19: Contrast the 1972 Democratic campaign of George McGovern with that of Lyndon Johnson in 1964. DO Level 20 BOSS: Assess the impact of the Watergate Break-in on your understanding of Richard Nixon as president and his administration's response to Watergate on Americans' relationship to politics and leadership. Level 90 Question: "Having Your Cake and Eating it Too" Politics BOSS WIN: You are the campaign manager either for the Obama re-election campaign or for the campaign of his Republican opponent (if you select this option, you must also select the candidate). Construct a winning campaign for your candidate. This must include issues, approaches to media, approaches to social media, opposition research, spending plans, fundraising plans, travel plans, electoral college projections, debate preparation, constituency management and outreach, contingency plans in the result of foreign crises (if you are the president) or selecting a vice presidential running mate (if you are the Republican). For purposes of this BOSS WIN, you must explain the historical reason for each of the decisions you make. Economics, Finance, Labor and IndustryLevel 1: What were the 10 largest US corporations (by gross revenue) in 1900? 1970? Level 2: What were the 5 largest unions in the US (by total membership) in 1900? 1970? Level 3: Derive 3 common threads that link the corporations and DO. Level 4: Derive 3 common threads that link the unions and DO. Level 5: Derive 3 common threads that link both the corporations and the unions and DO. Level 6: Using yearly data points, graph US exports and imports in whole dollars between 1945 and 1970. DO by drawing conclusions about US economic health and activity based on your graph. Level 7: Particularize your level 6 draft by separating out the top 10 countries to whom we exported and from whom we imported, draw conclusions about US economic and foreign relationships and DO. Level 8: Particularize your level 6 draft by separating out the top 10 goods and services we exported and imported, drawing conclusions about US economic health, productivity and consumer demand and DO. Level 9: Using yearly data points, derive an understanding of US public finances between 1945 and 1970. Public finances encompasses taxes raised (and from whom), public spending (on what) and public borrowing (how much and from whom?). Level 10 BOSS: What was the state of American capitalism in 1970? Level 11: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the conditions of American agricultural and factory workers between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 12: Gather 8 pieces of data that inform you about the conditions of American service sector workers between 1970 and 1980. DO. Level 13: Using yearly data points, graph the percentage of Americans working in manufacturing between 1970 and 1980 and DO. Level 14: Using yearly data points, graph the percentage of Americans working in the service sector between 1970 and 1980 and DO. Level 15: Using yearly data points, graph average salary, vacation time, health-care benefits and pension access in the manufacturing and service sectors of the economy between 1970 and 1980 and DO. Level 16: Gather 6 consequences of the 1973 Arab Oil Embargo and the 1979 energy crisis. Level 17: Assess the impact on the international financial system of the 1973 embargo and DO. Level 18: Assess the impact on American economic competitiveness of the 1973 embargo and 1979 energy crisis and DO. Level 19: Contrast the public finances of the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations. DO. Level 20 BOSS: By 1979-1980, the US economy was in a disastrously weakened state. What made it so? What were the conditions that created "stagflation?" What decisions were responsible for it? What changes would you advice the incoming Reagan Administration to make to combat the problem? Level 90 Question: Legacy Systems EFLI BOSS WIN: Bring the federal budget into balance, explaining how you do so, who pays and why, the social consequences of your decisions and short, medium and long term EFLI consequences of your decisions. For purposes of this BOSS WIN, do not consider politics, but you must explain how and why the nation made the decisions you are now correcting. Foreign Policy (Facing Down The Soviets and then Facing Down Ourselves)Level 1: Gather 6 examples of US responses to the real or perceived threat posed to the US by the Soviet Union before 1970. DO. Level 2: Gather 4 examples of US interventions into the affairs of nations in Europe before 1970. DO. Level 3: Gather 4 examples of US interventions into the affairs of nations in Central/South America or the Caribbean before 1970. DO. Level 4: Gather 4 examples of US interventions into the affairs of nations in Asia before 1970. DO. Level 5: Gather 4 examples of US interventions into the affairs of nations in Africa before 1970. DO. Level 6: Derive 6 common principles that link these US interventions. Level 7: What did the US mean by the terms: domino theory and containment? Level 8: Gather 6 examples of US actions before 1970 that specifically illustrate the notions of the domino theory and containment and DO. Level 9: Gather 6 examples of US actions in South Vietnam before the Tet Offensive that illustrate the principle of containment. Level 10 BOSS: Support or deny: There was never any hope for a United States victory in the Vietnam War. Level 11: Gather the top 3 foreign policy initiatives of the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations. DO. Level 12: Derive common principles between the three administrations. DO. Level 13: Gather the top 3 opposing initiatives of America's adversaries in the Nixon, Ford and Carter administrations. DO. Level 14: Gather 6 examples of non-domestic terrorism in the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations. DO. Level 15: How was the concept of terrorism understood in the 1970s? Who experienced it? Level 16: Gather the top 3 foreign policy initiatives of the Reagan Administration. DO. Level 17: Gather the top 3 opposing initiatives of America's adversaries in the Reagan Administration. DO. Level 18: Contrast the foreign policy objectives of the Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan Administrations. DO. Level 19: Compare the foreign policy achievements of the Nixon, Ford, Carter and Reagan Administrations. DO. Level 20 BOSS: At the Reykjavik Summit, Soviet leader Gorbachev offered total nuclear disarmament to President Reagan. Reagan ultimately refused. Would any of Reagan's three predecessors have taken the deal? Make the case to President Reagan that he SHOULD take the deal and why he should do so. Level 90 Question: Al Qaeda FP BOSS WIN: Advise the president (in the mode of NSC-68) regarding the most serious foreign policy challenges facing the United States, in your judgement, between now and 2025 and what he/she should do to ready the nation for them. TechnologyLevel 1: Gather 10 examples of technology that defined the American experience of technology prior to 1970 and DO. Level 2: Derive 4 common threads between the 10 examples from level 1 and DO. Level 3: Assess 2 ways in which technology changed American society prior to 1970 and DO. Level 4: Assess 2 ways in which technology changed American culture prior to 1970 and DO. Level 5: Assess 2 ways in which technology changed American politics prior to 1970 and DO. Level 6: Assess 2 ways in which technology changed American labor/economics/work prior to 1970 and DO. Level 7: Assess 2 ways in which technology changed American foreign policy prior to 1970 and DO. Level 8: To what extent was technology a prime mover or change agent in American society between 1945 and 1970? Level 9: Which innovation had the greater influence - the ENIAC, the transistor or the space program? Level 10 BOSS: How much influence does technology that predates 1970 have in your daily life? Cite specific examples and demonstrate how your life would be diminished without these technologies. What technologies that predate 1970 no longer have a role in your daily life? Level 11: Gather 5 examples of large or "national-scale" technology in 1970 and DO. Level 12: Gather 5 examples of small scale or "personal" technology in 1970 and DO. Level 13: Gather the 5 biggest technology companies in 1975 and DO. Level 14: What were these technology companies doing? Level 15: Compare/contrast these companies' similarities and differences and DO. Level 16: Microsoft was founded in 1975. Gather 3 examples of how it was/is different from the examples you gathered in level 11 and level 12 and DO. Level 17: Apple was founded in 1976. Gather 3 examples of how it was/is different from the examples you gathered in level 11 and level 12 and DO. Level 18: To what extent do Bill Gates and Steve Jobs articulate a similar vision? DO. Level 19: To what extent do Bill Gates and Steve Jobs articulate a different vision? DO. Level 20 BOSS: Microsoft and Apple are radically different entities than any that had appeared previously in American technology life. Why? Level 90 Question: Technology and Flattening (Friedman, c1) Technology BOSS WIN: Technology is, arguably, the single biggest change agent in the last half-century, perhaps initiating the transformation of America 2.0 to America 3.0 by itself. Based on reason and sound evidence, how might technology transform American society, culture, politics, economics or foreign policy between now and 2025. Your answer must integrate technology and one other knowledge tree, and it must base its claims on the ways in which technology has already transformed that area. DOING The Doing trunk further subdivides into the following branches: Reading Critical Writing Critical Speaking Modeling Collaborating Integrating Reading - the foundation of all knowledge (that which is cited) Short, short reading - Twitter (140 characters) Short form - blog postings, news articles, infographics, 5 minute films (200-1000 words) Medium form - "the long blog," journal articles, 30 minute films (1000-5000 words) Monographs - books, generally, always longer than 5000 words, feature-length documentaries (60 minutes+) To earn achievement points in reading, you have to convince me through another "do" that you've read enough and well enough to understand whatever it is you were reading. If so, you earn: 5 points for 25 examples of short/short 15 points for 10 examples of short 30 points for 3 examples of medium 50 points for 1 example of a monograph Personal Reading Wins (last level = epic) Follow and cite 50 (100) (250) (500) Twitter feeds and/or Tumblr blogs (20/30/100/300) Follow and cite 20 (30) (40) (50) RSS blog feeds (50/100/300/500) Read and Cite 5 (10) (15) (25) longer blogs or journal articles (100/200/400/600) Read and Cite 2 (3) (4) (5) monographs (200/400/800/1000) Group Reading Achieves Read 10 journal articles in every "knowing" discipline (500) Read 2 monographs in every "knowing" discipline (1000) Critical Writing - one foundation of expression (where one cites) Short, short form - tweeting one very simple idea Short form - blog postings (200-500 words) - the 2 minute movie one simple idea, explicated Medium form - the short paper, the "long blog" (1000-2000 words), the 7 minute movie one complex idea, explicated with depth Long form - the long paper (2000+ words), the webpage, the 20 minute movie one highly complex idea, explicated along multiple arcs Achievement points in writing are earned in in clusters of 1000 points. 1000 points are earned for: 1 long form mode = 3 medium form modes = 10 short form modes = 100 short, short form modes Personal Writing Wins: 1 of each form = 500 points EPIC win = 5 long-form critical writes Group Achieves in writing: Post to a blog of your own creation for 30 consecutive school days (500) / 60 consecutive school days (750) / 90 consecutive school days (1000) Critical Speaking - the other foundation of expression (where one cites) Short, short form - answering one question (or asking one) Short form - speaking about a subject for 2 minutes without notes (or leading a conversation about a topic for 5 minutes) Medium form - speaking about a subject for 5 minutes without notes (or leading a conversation about a topic for 10 minutes) Long form - speaking about a subject for at least 10 minutes without notes (or leading a conversation about a topic for 20 minutes) Achievement points in speaking are also earned in clusters of 1000 points. 1000 points are earned for: 1 long form mode = 3 medium form modes = 10 short form modes = 100 short, short modes Group achieves in speaking are earned by putting together roundtables that are filmed and shared. A 15-minute roundtable discussion would earn 500 points. Personal Speaking Wins: Speak in public in front of more than 200 people or document more than 1000 unique downloads of a video you made EPIC win = speak in front of more than 1000 people or get more than 10,000 unique downloads Modeling - a non-written form of expression (where one cites) infographics, visual and/or performing arts, mind maps, photography, film Because modeling is idiosyncratic, modeling points are earned on a case-by-case basis after discussions with me where I approve the scope of the project and assign it points. Some examples of 500 point achievements in modeling are: 1. An infographic (see examples in the Schoology forum) on a complex idea, like use of technology by seniors. 2. A photo essay illuminating Jewish-African American relations in Los Angeles. 3. A curated (photos found, but not taken by you) photo essay on Native American resistance to cultural assimilation. 4. 5 minutes of a short, creative film about high school students responding to 9/11 on 9/11/01. 5. A 3-4 minute pop song, written and performed, which speaks to a social problem in the USA. Modeling projects can be done by ALTs as well - the complexity of the work proposed generates the achievements. Modeling Wins: Collaborating (all work is teamwork) Starting an ALT (Accountable Learning Team) and constructing a shared identity Conducting interviews to gather data Working together to acquire knowledge and solve increasingly complex problems Using social media to share and collaborate Teaching others what you know so that they know it Collaboration is at the heart of scholarship - what you learn builds upon the learning of others. Starting an ALT in class and agreeing to shared norms would earn 100 achievement points. Each time you work together in your ALT to achieve an objective, you'd earn another 100 points. Collaboration points are earned only when you are interacting with others. If you do not choose to join an ALT, that's fine, you can still earn collaboration points by doing interviews or by building an ALT that has members outside of class (you and some friends from other schools collaborate on a blog, for instance, or you make some movies together). Integrating (nothing is as simple as you'd like it to be) Increasingly complex ways of understanding. At its most basic, it draws connections between two different branches of the "knowing" tree (for example, Foreign Policy (War in Iraq) generating Culture (protest music by Eminem). Each new integrated branch adds a level of complexity. It could easily integrate across the "doing" tree as well - your ALT follows 50 Twitter feeds (short, short reading / use of social media) and each week, a member creates a Tumblr posting integrating learning across these feeds (medium form writing, working together, using social media). Integrating learning across disciplines is exciting, complex work. It is also the most essential thing you can do as a learner if you want to succeed in the 21st century. To that end, here are some examples of integrating that would earn 100 achievement points: 1. Combining 2 branches of the "knowing tree" (politics and culture, for example). 2. Combine 2 forms of social media (Google+ and YouTube, for example). An example of a 500 point achievement in integrating: 1. Preparing an essay and infographic on Jewish and African American economic success/challenges in LA to accompany your photo essay. POSTED TO SCHOOLOGY "DOING" While knowing is important, you don't earn any points by leveling. You only earn points by showing what you know by doing something with it. You can't execute any tasks in the Doing Tree without having leveled in the Knowing Tree. The Doing Tree subdivides into the following branches: Reading Critical Writing Critical Speaking Modeling Collaborating Integrating Reading - Critical reading is the foundation skill. In America 3.0, what one reads is multivalent. It could be nearly anything. Your responsibility is assessing the quality and validity of the source. If you stake your reputation on a bad source, you have to own it. You indicate to the community what you've read by citing it in a different "do." THAT WHICH IS CITED Short, short reading - Twitter (140 characters) Short form - blog postings, news articles, infographics, 5 minute films (200-1000 words) Medium form - "the long blog," journal articles, 30 minute films (1000-5000 words) Monographs - books, generally, always longer than 5000 words, feature-length documentaries (60 minutes+) To earn achievement points in reading, you have to convince me through another "do" that you've read enough and well enough to understand whatever it is you were reading. If so, you earn: 5 points for 25 examples of short/short 15 points for 10 examples of short 30 points for 3 examples of medium 50 points for 1 example of a monograph Writing - Critical writing is one way in which you might express your ideas. Writing is not just putting words to paper (digital or otherwise). Making a short film with a clear script is a form of writing, because it requires you to structure and articulate an idea and explicate it so that it can be understood by others. Critical writing, in this case, is explicitly not journal writing. WHERE ONE CITES Short, short form - tweeting (140 characters-100 words) one simple idea Short form - blog postings (200-500 words) - the 2 minute movie one simple idea, explicated Medium form - the short paper, the "long blog" (1000-2000 words), the 7 minute movie one complex idea, explicated with depth Long form - the long paper (2000+ words), the webpage, the 20 minute movie one highly complex idea, explicated along multiple arcs Achievement points in writing are earned in in clusters of 500 points. 500 points are earned for: 1 long form mode = 3 medium form modes = 25 short form modes = 250 short, short form modes Speaking - Speaking is the other foundation of critical expression. It has different rules and expectations from writing. It can be informal or formal, like critical writing. Speaking is a critical skill for success in all of your future plans. Like writing, speaking without citation (in other words, speaking without a strong foundation from reading) is almost always going to fail to advance knowledge. WHERE ONE CITES Short, short form - answering one question (or asking one) Short form - speaking about a subject for 2 minutes without notes (or leading a conversation about a topic for 5 minutes) Medium form - speaking about a subject for 5 minutes without notes (or leading a conversation about a topic for 10 minutes) Long form - speaking about a subject for at least 10 minutes without notes (or leading a conversation about a topic for 20 minutes) Achievement points in speaking are also earned in clusters of 500 points. 500 points are earned for: 1 long form mode = 3 medium form modes = 25 short form modes = 250 short, short modes Modeling - I define modeling as all non-written, non-speaking forms of expression that nevertheless are doing the same work as writing and speaking. They are still based on critical reading. They intend to convey understanding. They are forms where one cites. Some examples of modeling are: infographics, visual and/or performing arts, mind maps, photography and film. Because modeling is idiosyncratic, modeling points are earned on a case-by-case basis after discussions with me where I approve the scope of the project and assign it points. Some examples of 500 point achievements in modeling are: 1. An infographic (see examples in the Schoology forum) on a complex idea, like use of technology by seniors. 2. A photo essay illuminating Jewish-African American relations in Los Angeles. 3. A curated (photos found, but not taken by you) photo essay on Native American resistance to cultural assimilation. 4. 5 minutes of a short, creative film about high school students responding to 9/11 on 9/11/01. 5. A 3-4 minute pop song, written and performed, which speaks to a social problem in the USA. Collaborating - All work, on some level, is collaborative. This is why reading is such an integral skill. Think of it as a form of collaborating with scholars, thinkers, bloggers and others. Some examples of collaborative practice include: starting an ALT (Accountable Learning Team) and constructing a shared identity, conducting interviews to gather data, working together to acquire knowledge (level) and solve increasingly complex problems (defeat bosses), using social media to share and collaborate with people around the country and world who aren't in the class and teaching others what you know so that they know it. Collaboration is at the heart of scholarship - what you learn builds upon the learning of others. Starting an ALT in class and agreeing to shared norms would earn 500 achievement points. Each time you work together in your ALT to achieve a boss-level objective, you'd earn anywhere from 100-500 additional points. Collaboration points are earned only when you are interacting with others. If you do not choose to join an ALT, that's fine, you can still earn collaboration points by doing interviews or by building an ALT that has members outside of class (you and some friends from other schools collaborate on a blog, for instance, or you make some movies together). Integrating - By the end of this class, I hope that you'll realize that we live in a world of bewildering complexity and that the process of complexification is ongoing. Nothing is as simple as you'd like it to be and won't be. At its most basic, integration draws connections between two different branches of the "knowing" tree (for example, Foreign Policy (War in Iraq) generating Culture (protest music by Eminem). Each new integrated branch adds a level of complexity. It could easily integrate across the "doing" tree as well - your ALT follows 50 Twitter feeds (short, short reading / use of social media) and each week, a member creates a Tumblr posting integrating learning across these feeds (medium form writing, working together, using social media). Integrating learning across disciplines is exciting, complex work. It is also the most essential thing you can do as a learner if you want to succeed in the 21st century. To that end, here are some examples of integrating that would earn 100 achievement points: 1. Combining 2 branches of the "knowing tree" (politics and culture, for example). 2. Combine 2 forms of social media (Google+ and YouTube, for example). An example of a 500 point achievement in integrating: 1. Preparing an essay and infographic on Jewish and African American economic success/challenges in LA to accompany your photo essay. Class Achievements First to post a discussion topic First to level 1 First to level 1 in all 6 branches First to level 5 First to level 10 First to level 10 in all 6 branches ALT Achieves Start one Complete 5 projects Bring someone from outside into the ALT Create an ALT Tumblr Post 25 items to that Tumblr Earn 100 reblogs Personal Achievements Cover image: Dark Falz, the final boss in Phantasy Star (one of the first proper quest/adventure games).

On this episode, Don Hild, Educator, Trainer and Medicare Expert came on to specifically outline all of the Medicare options (A & B, C, D, & F). Don discussed the history of the creation of Medicare by Franklin Roosevelt and why it was not implemented until the Lyndon B. Johnson Administration - detailing why and how this history continues to define Parts A & B. Don discussed the differences between Med-Advantage and Medicare Supplements and emphasized that all individuals (age 65 & above) are required to purchase a Medicare D Prescription card or pay a penalty. Regarding the status of Healthcare, 2018 - Don stated that individuals who had been "grandfathered in" - (not enrolled in ACA due to salary ineligibility of $45K +) who had been allowed to carry their old healthcare plans would face huge increases in coverage as of January, 2018. The "grandfathered" plans expire 12-31-17.   Don presented that the letters that went to ACA insurance holders warning of big ($200-$300) for January, 2018 increases per month could be ignored because the subsidies that would keep the prices down had been renewed - and many ACA insurance members may even see a small decrease for the 2018 year.

Segment 1: In an emotional and well-covered speech, Senator Jeff Flake announced that he was going to retire from the United States Senate as a way to protest against President Trump’s Twitter Tirades. Facing poll numbers of around 18%, Flake’s departure means that Republicans can field a better candidate who can withstand a challenge from the likes of Kelli Ward. Segment 2: With House passage of a Senate Budget resolution, the stage is set for the House and the Senate to complete work on a tax cut package that will be Donald Trump’s first big accomplishment as President. That means that every lobbyist in town is beating a pathway to the House Ways and Means and Senate Finance Committees. Segment 3: President Trump announced earlier this week that he was going to allow the National Archives to release everything they have on the Assassination of Jack Kennedy. While this probably won’t stop the conspiracy theorists, like Roger Stone, from speculating about the involvement of the CIA or the Johnson Administration, it certainly puts President Kennedy back squarely in the spotlight.