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turned on the television set."
'
Martin Blumenson, a widely
respected military historian who has
spoken at the Library several times,
returned, this time to discuss "The
Problems of Berlin in World War 11."
That problem, from an American
point of view
- the coalit1un and
he ,l',sumcd that e\'erybod:, ebe w 1s de~ptte uutv.ard difference,. I
bdic\.e thar the outi:omc vmd1cated hi', 1udgmcnt.
I th-nk hat (the i:-.su1:of! Berlin c01m:~ duwn 111 1, thdl there h thi,
[period - h.:• ,ay about four or five weeks
- becausetheir cul
tures and political systems had so lit
tle in common, neither really under
stood the other. Misunderstandings
and confrontations thus were fre
quent: Suez, Lebanon. Berlin, Laos
and Cuba.
A mythology has developed
about the 1962 missile
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Cover: "Funeral Pyres." Artist: W. G. Laurence; U.S. Coast Guard Art
Program
2
High SchoolTeachersStudyThe U.S. Congress
Senate Historian Richard Baker speculates on "What the framers [of the Constitution] would recognize and what would
surprise them
- , Oxford
University
Richard W. Bolling
Former United States
Representative
Fifth District, Missouri
Lecturer and Author
Thomas E. Cronin
McHugh Professor of American
Institutions and Leadership
The Colorado College
Catherine Hancock
Associate Professor
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for all of us."
Memories of a Royal ·visit
By Harry Middleton,
LBJ Lihrary and Mmeum Direcl/lr, E111erit11.1·
Queen Elizabeth'sGoldenJubileecal.led
to mind her trip to Austin in May, 1991.
Governor Ann Richards was host
ess to Lbe royal visit. She
- warned of tragedy. In mid1964 Senator Richard Russell or
Georgia told LBJ that Vietnam wa.
·'the damned worst mes. J ever . aw,
and I don't like to brag." And LBJ
responded glumly, "I've been think
ing that way for the past six months."
An occasional
- inter
viewed
Richard
Burton
and
Elizabeth Taylor in all the world's
capitals-Paris, Rome, New York,
Hollywood, London, and Leningrad.
I had been the only journalist at
"I'm just as amazed as you are that all of this happened to little Mary
Elizabeth
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American history. Luck and accident,
Poor Richard notwithstanding.
The greatest accident in American
history, Brands argued, occurred on
January 24, 1848, when "on the middle
fork of the American River, in the foot
hills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains
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We had just won the Cold War.
Communism had collapsed.
The Berlin Wall came down.
We were the only remaining
superpow r; everybody want-
ed to get close to the Unit d
States. There were only four
or five countries that didn't like
us ....
The Soviet
