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Episodes tagged "Foreign Politics": 1 through 3 of 3

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  1. WilliamHoward Taft Our Foreign Dependencies
    date September 5, 1908map Bath, Virginiatags American Intervention, Foreign Dependencies, William Howard Taft, Political Speech, Foreign Politics

    The whiny dulcets tones belonging to presidential hopeful William Howard Taft argued his stance on American Imperialism from a recorded speech given on September 05, 1908 in Hot Springs, Virginia. The recording known as, “Our Foreign Dependencies: Porto Rico, Cuba and the Philippines” comes from the Library of Congress National Jukebox. Recorded on a Victor Talking Machine the recording lasted...

  2. Kennedy Hears from a Worried Soviet Premier
    date October 26, 1962 to October 27, 1962map Dist Columbia, District of Columbiatags War, Foreign Politics, Diplomacy/International

    Between 6:00 and 9:00 PM on the night of Friday October 26, 1962, the tenth day of the Cuban Missile Crisis, the members of President John F. Kennedy’s Executive Committee of the National Security (ExCom) received sections of a long, emotional private message from Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev.  Khrushchev revealed the underlying logic of the Cuban Missile Crisis when he wrote, “I see,...

  3. Information Passed On: A German Attempt to Curb anti-Nazi sentiment
    date August 8, 1933map New York, New Yorktags War, Foreign Politics, League of Nations

    Over seventy-seven years ago, on the eighth of August, 1933, Dr. Daniel Mulvihill (a New Yorker) was assaulted by a German citizen while he was visiting Berlin, apparently because he had failed to “salute a Nazi detachment.” A few weeks later, on the twenty-fourth of that month, Dr. Mulvihill’s assailant was taken into custody by Nazi authorities, and was then deposited into a concentration camp,...