Ellsworth bunker biography of barack

  • The message focuses on the life and career of Ellsworth Bunker, depicting him as a global troubleshooter and a Vietnam Hawk.
  • The President not only condoned attacks on SAM sites but also conveyed to Bun- ker that attacks could occur against other North Vietnamese military facilities.
  • Bunker was one of the stars of postwar American diplomacy.

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    The View from Hanoi: Historians from the Socialist Republic of Vietnam

    East Auditorium, George C. Marshall Conference Center
    Washington, D.C.
    September 29, 2010

    • Chair: Ronald Spector, George Washington University
    • Ambassador Tran Van Tung, Director, Diplomatic History Research Center, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, "Vietnam - US Relations during the Vietnam War with Special Reference to the Role of Diplomacy and the Insights of some Turning Points"
    • Dr. Nguyen Manh Ha, Vice Director, Military History Institute of Vietnam, Ministry of Defense, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, "Early Identification and Knowledge of the Opponent: An Important Advantage for Securing Victory in the Vietnam War"
    • Commentator: Lien-Hang Nguyen, University of Kentucky

    DR. CARLAND: Okay. Could we settle down? Welcome to the afternoon session of our conference on the American Experience in Southeast Asia 1946-1975. The panel we are about to start right now is called the View

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    THE CENTENNIAL OF MARTHA GELLHORN

    TOM PUTNAM: Good afternoon. I’m Tom Putnam, Director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. And on behalf of John Shattuck, CEO of the Kennedy Library Foundation, and all of my Library colleagues, inom welcome you to this afternoon’s special forum to mark the centennial of Martha Gellhorn. 

    Let me begin by thanking our underwriters, beginning with our lead sponsor Bank of America, the Lowell Institute, Boston Capital, the Corcoran Jennison Companies, The Boston Foundation, and our media sponsors The Boston Globe, NECN and WBUR, which broadcasts Kennedy Library Forums on Sunday evenings at 8:00p.m. 

    To prepare for this introduction, inom called the only person inom know who knew Martha Gellhorn, Patrick Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway’s sole surviving son. After sharing a number of stories he concluded, “Ah! If Marty were still alive, she’d no doubt be in the mountains of Afghanistan, in the thick of that unfolding conflict.”

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    List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients

    This is a partial list of recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, listed chronologically within the aspect of life in which each recipient fryst vatten or was renowned.

    The Presidential Medal of Freedom is awarded by the president of the United States to “any individ recommended to the President for award of the Medal or any person selected by the President upon his own initiative."[1] Before 1970, honorees were either selected by the president or recommended to them by the Distinguished Civilian Service Awards Board.[2]

    History

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    Typically the medal is bestowed upon the recipient by the sitting president who has chosen them. However, the first recipients selected by President John F. Kennedy before his assassination were formally awarded by his successor in office, Lyndon B. Johnson.[3]

    President Barack Obama awarded 118 medals, the most of any president, followed by President Bill Clinto