Conversations with History - Garry Wills Video Clips.
"The Modern Presidency and the National Security State" Garry Wills, Professor Emeritus of History, Northwestern University Conversations host Harry Kreisler welcomes historian Garry Wills, for a discussion of his new book, Bomb power. Wills recalls the formative influences on his writing and his Catholic faith and education, William Buckley and the editors of The National Review, to protest against the Vietnam War and the civil rights movement. Wills describes the emergence of one of his firstBooks, Nixon Agonistes: The crisis of self-made man, explains the roots of his interest in leadership and reflects on other issues in his letter. Wills compares Roosevelt, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Delano. He explains why, after having supported the candidacy of Barack Obama, has become a critic of the president. Wills then analyzed the effects of the atomic bomb on the U.S. Constitution. After the Second World War, national security interventions inConstitution were not repealed on the merits. The production of the atomic bomb and the subsequent maintenance and development of the model for the consolidation of the national security state, increasing the power of the presidency at the expense of other branches of government. There was also a violation of constitutional guarantees to restore. What followed was an increase in the privacy of undeclared wars, the loss of responsibility and result in a decrease of the President as Commander in Chief...
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