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  • BN+: John Laurence, "The Cat from Hue"

    BN+: John Laurence, "The Cat from Hue"
    2025/07/08
    As a follow-up to last week's interview with Lien-Hang Nguyen, here is an encore interview with former CBS and ABC reporter John Laurence. Mr. Laurence was interviewed on Booknotes, the television program, on January 17, 2002. His book is called "The Cat from Hue". It's 800 plus pages and relays his Vietnam experience as a reporter for CBS. John Laurence spent a total of 22 months there, from the years 1965 to 1970. In his interview, he calls his book "my life's work because I hope it will be helpful to others." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 7 分
  • Q&A: Rosie Rios, America250 Commission Chair

    Q&A: Rosie Rios, America250 Commission Chair
    2025/07/07
    July 4, 2026, marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In 2016, Congress established the America250 Commission to plan events to celebrate the semiquincetennial. America250 Commission Chair Rosie Rios joins us to talk about several of these events which will occur over the next year, including the U.S. Army's 250th anniversary parade that took place on June 14, 2025, and other initiatives that the public can participate in leading up to the anniversary. She also talks about serving as the 43rd Treasurer of the United States (2009-2016). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 6 分
  • AW: Jose Andres. "Change the Recipe"

    AW: Jose Andres. "Change the Recipe"
    2025/07/06
    Chef José Andrés talked about the life lessons he's learned through the work he does with the World Central Kitchen, an organization that feeds people in conflict and disaster zones around the world. He spoke at George Washington University's Lisner Hall. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 16 分
  • BN+: Lien-Hang Nguyen, "Hanoi's War"

    BN+: Lien-Hang Nguyen, "Hanoi's War"
    2025/07/01
    This year marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Netflix is offering a five-part documentary series titled "Turning Point: The Vietnam War," directed by Brian Knappenberger. The series includes never-before-seen footage of the war from the CBS archives. Also included in the documentary are interviews with participants in the war, both from the North and the South. One of the most frequent voices heard during the series is Columbia University professor Lien-Hang Nguyen, born in Vietnam in 1974. She is the youngest of nine children and was brought to the United States by her parents in 1975. Prof. Nguyen is the author of the 2012 book "Hanoi's War: An International History of the War for Peace in Vietnam." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 10 分
  • Q&A: Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"

    Q&A: Jonathan Turley, "The Indispensable Right"
    2025/06/30
    George Washington University Law School professor Jonathan Turley discusses the history of free speech in America and the people who advanced it. He argues that the right to free speech, enshrined in the First Amendment, is a basic human right that protects all the others. Prof. Turley also talks about current attempts by government, universities, and the private sector to limit free speech in the United States. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 10 分
  • Dave and Dina McCormick, "Who Believed in You?"

    Dave and Dina McCormick, "Who Believed in You?"
    2025/06/29
    Sen. Dave McCormick (R-PA) and his wife Dina McCormick discussed the importance of mentors and shared stories of successful politicians and business leaders who have had their lives changed by them. This event was hosted by the Ronald Regan Institute in Washington, D.C Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    52 分
  • BN+: William Geroux, "The Fifteen"

    BN+: William Geroux, "The Fifteen"
    2025/06/24
    One October morning in 2018, journalist William Geroux says he was returning some books to his local Virginia Beach Library when he noticed a new state historical marker planted in the ground near the front entrance. It said the library was built on the site of a World War II prisoner of war camp. In Mr. Giroux's author's note in his latest book called "The Fifteen," he writes that he "was surprised and a little embarrassed" not to know that, during World War II, the U S had 700 POW camps spread throughout the United States in 46 different states, housing 371,683 German soldiers and 49,784 Italians. His book is subtitled "Murder, Retribution, and the Forgotten Story of Nazi POWs in America." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 16 分
  • Q&A: Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"

    Q&A: Peniel Joseph, "Freedom Season"
    2025/06/23
    University of Texas at Austin history professor Peniel Joseph, author of "Freedom Season," talks about the pivotal events of 1963 that impacted the Civil Rights Movement in America. That year, which marked the centenary of Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, also saw the assassinations of President Kennedy and Mississippi civil rights activist Medgar Evers, the publication of James Baldwin's bestseller "The Fire Next Time," and the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama, which killed 4 little girls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    1 時間 10 分