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THIS HOUR-LONG EVENT. >> AND SEVEN FRANCS A DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL PROGRAMS OF THE NATIONAL CONSTITUTION CENTER. WE ARE PLEASED TO WELCOME TO THE CENTER...
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| 00:00:54 |
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IS VIEWED AS THE FIRST COLD WAR VICTORY FOR AMERICA AGAINST THE SOVIET UNION. AS THE EDITORS OF PUBLISHER OF WEEKLIES IN THE REVIEW OF DARING YOUNG...
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| 00:03:38 |
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THE ASTONISHING SERIES OF EVENTS IN 1948, 49. IT IS PARTICULARLY IMPORTANT TO ME I LIVED SEVERAL YEARS IN BERLIN BUT AS A STUDENT AND THEN TEACHING...
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| 00:05:11 |
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WHICH WAS GERMANY WAS DIVIDED TO FOR OCCUPATION ZONES THAT IS AMERICAN, RUSSIAN, BRITISH AND FRENCH AND THEN THE BRITISH, FRENCH AND AMERICAN SECTIONS...
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| 00:09:38 |
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A SMALL DANGER BECAUSE THE PEOPLE DO NOT REALLY WANT WAR. >> THE PEOPLE HEADED AGAIN LAST WEEK TO PROTEST COMMUNIST TERROR TACTICS DIRECTED AGAINST...
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| 00:10:06 |
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BEFORE THE WORLD. NEW PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, YOU PEOPLE IN AMERICA AND ENGLAND AND FRANCE AND ITALY, LOOK AT THIS CITY AND SEE THAT YOU MAY NOT ABANDON...
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| 00:10:55 |
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BOTH AIR. (music)(music) IT WAS AN OBSERVATION
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| 00:11:04 |
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WITHOUT PRECEDENT AND AS A TEST OF PRECISION, OF LOGISTICS AND WEATHER SERVICE. >> WITH 40 TO 50 AIRPLANES GOING SIMULTANEOUSLY MEN'S LIVES -- UNTIL...
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| 00:11:39 |
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ALIVE. IT MEANT WE HAD TO GET MORE FROM EACH AIRPLANE AND EACH MAN THAN EVER BEFORE. >> THE BIGGEST WAS THE CALL FOR UTILITIES. IT WAS PACKED IN THE...
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| 00:11:56 |
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ITEM WAS MADE IN TWO PUMPERNICKEL. WE COLLECT BREAD. AND MILK FOR THE KIDS. THEN MEDICINE. EVERY OUNCE OF
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| 00:12:10 |
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CARGO WAS CHECKED >> A NEW AGREEMENT SIGNED IN NEW YORK BETWEEN THEM U.S.S.R. AND THE UNITED STATES REAFFIRMED THE REMOVAL OF ALL RESTRICTIONS ON COMMUNICATIONS...
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| 00:12:45 |
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BERLIN BLOCKADE. THERE WAS OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED BY THE BIG FOUR POWERS AT 3:00 THIS AFTERNOON THAT THE BLOCKADE WILL BE LIFTED ON MAY 12TH >>
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| 00:13:02 |
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MEN'S LIVES THE GATES ARE BEING OPENED NOW AND THE FIRST VEHICLES ARE GOING. THEY SEEM RATHER HAPPY ABOUT THE WHOLE
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| 00:13:22 |
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THING. NO MATTER WHERE I MAY GO I SHALL WATCH ALWAYS WITH INTEREST THE PART OF BERLIN WILL PLAY IN THE FORMATION OF A GERMAN GOVERNMENT AND WITH COMPLETE...
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| 00:14:25 |
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OF THE SCENES THERE WAS A MAN ANNOUNCING THE NEWS ON THE STREET CORNER. WAS THIS? >> IT WAS RADIO WHEN THE AMERICAN SECTOR. THE AMERICAN INGENUITY AND...
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| 00:14:43 |
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THINGS A SEPARATE EXTRAORDINARY. THE RUSSIANS GOT TO BERLIN TWO MONTHS BEFORE WE DID. THEY TOOK EVERYTHING
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| 00:14:52 |
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THAT WASN'T BOLTED DOWN AND THAT WAS INCLUDING THE POWER STATIONS IN WEST BERLIN AND MOVE THEM TO THE SOVIET UNION AND CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT AND...
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| 00:16:09 |
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THE SOVIET UNION AND THE UNITED STATES BELIEVES, I CERTAINLY THINK THAT IF THE WAR HAD BEGUN IT WOULD HAVE BEGUN IN BERLIN THAT STALIN HAD A MEETING...
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| 00:19:42 |
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AND BASICALLY WAS AN INDUSTRIAL CZAR WORKING IN WASHINGTON DURING THE WAR. HE DID WHAT PEOPLE DID IN THOSE DAYS AND MAYBE IT'S UNFORTUNATE HE CAN'T...
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| 00:22:45 |
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THINK FOR THE LOGISTICAL ISSUES INVOLVED THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE, THEY THOUGHT WAS SIMPLY IMPOSSIBLE. >> THEY ALSO THOUGHT WE ON THE HAD 37 PLANES IN GERMANY...
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| 00:23:14 |
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OMAR'S BRADLEY'S SON-IN-LAW WAS LIVING IN GERMANY AND WAS CAPTAIN OF AIR FORCE WITH BRUSQUELY'S DAUGHTER AND GRANDCHILDREN AND WHO CLAY ORDERED THAT...
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| 00:25:06 |
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SAME ARGUMENT ABOUT ANYTHING. ONE OF THE GREAT SCENES -- THE LUCIUS CLAY WAS NOT THE EASIEST MAN THE WORLD. HIS STAFF WHICH WAS TERRIFIED OF
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| 00:25:19 |
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HIM WOULD SAY WHEN HE IS RELAXED HE IS A NICE GUY. THE PROBLEM IS HE NEVER RELAXES. AND HE DIDN'T GET ALONG PARTICULARLY WELL WITH GERMANS DESPITE WHAT...
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| 00:27:27 |
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ON? >> IT'S AN INTERESTING QUESTION AND ALSO SOMETHING ELSE USE IT, ONE OF THE REASONS THE MILITARY WAS AGAINST IT WAS THAT IT MEANT TAKING EVERY PLANE...
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| 00:27:48 |
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EVERYTHING ON WHAT THEY CONSIDERED THIS FOR'S MISSION SO THE BALL WAS AVAILABLE IN THE BEGINNING WERE THE 37 PLANES, THE D.C. THREE C'S COULD CARRY...
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| 00:30:11 |
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ON JUNE 26 THE THE AIRLIFT START AND THE WORLD DIDN'T KNOW IT YET, THE TELEPHONES RANG ALL ACROSS AMERICA AND THE SMALLER TOWNS POLICE CAME TO THE DOOR...
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| 00:30:25 |
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WHO HAD BEEN PILOTS, NAVIGATORS, MECHANICS COST OF PETITIONS WHICH WERE VERY IMPORTANT WERE TOLD TO REPORT TO THE MILITARY BASES WITHIN 48 HOURS AND...
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| 00:34:13 |
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KEPT THIS SECRET AS THEY COULD FROM THE AMERICAN PEOPLE BUT WE DID NOT HAVE ENOUGH MECHANICS. REMEMBER THESE PLANES WERE BEING USED AT FIVE AND SIX...
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| 00:34:32 |
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AWFUL LOT OF CRASHES PARTICULARLY ON LANDINGS. AND, BILL TUNNELER, GENERAL WILLIAM TANNER YOU ACTUALLY COMMANDED THE AIRLIFT, HE WAS ANOTHER WORKAHOLIC,...
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| 00:36:33 |
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IT FROM 20,000 FEET FLYING B-17'S AND HE SAYS HERE I AM, LEFT A YEAR AGO OR FIVE YEARS AGO AND I WAS KILLING THESE PEOPLE. >> THAT WAS THOMPSON WHO WAS...
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| 00:37:08 |
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WAS BEATEN TO DEATH BY THE FARMERS IN THE AREA. THIS WAS VERY COMMON. PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THE PEOPLE TO BOMB THEM, AND MANY PILOTS WERE BEATEN TO DEATH....
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| 00:39:21 |
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SO ONE. >> IT IS A VERY INTERESTING SOCIETY STUDY OF THE AMERICANS, THE BRITISH AND FRENCH. THE FRENCH ABSOLUTELY HATED THE GERMANS. AFTER ALL THEY...
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| 00:39:43 |
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WITH THE GERMANS, EXCEPT BOTH COUNTRIES LOVE WHAT THEY CALL FOOTBALL, WHAT WEISEL CALLS SOCCER AND THE BRITISH AND THE GERMANS, THE GERMAN MECHANICS...
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| 00:42:02 |
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OF LANDING AT THE AIRPORT IN THE CENTER OF BERLIN? >> TEMPELHOF AIRPORT FOR ANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN IT ONE OF THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY PLACES IN THE WORLD....
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| 00:42:27 |
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MARSTON NORTH CAROLINA, WHERE THEY WERE BUILT. THE PLANES HAD TO COME IN OVER, AND AGAIN THEY WERE DOING THIS IN FOG COME AT NIGHT. IT WAS 24 HOURS A...
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| 00:46:05 |
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HAVE TO SAY, TEMPELHOF IN JUTS, YOU STILL SORT OF WENT LIKE THIS, DOWN AND I OFTEN THINK I AM BEING HYPERBOLIC BUT I'M NOT. YOU COULD LOOK IS YOUR LENDEE,...
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| 00:46:51 |
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THEN THEY FINALLY STOPPED IN SEPTEMBER AND MANY GERMANS, MANY BERLINERS HAD TROUBLE SLEEPING WITHOUT THE NOISE. THEY COULDN'T GO TO SLEEP WITHOUT THE...
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| 00:47:33 |
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THE WI-FI AND AGENTS TO GUAM AND IS NOW BEEN SENT TO BERLIN ACROSS THE WORLD, BUT THERE ARE ALSO THINGS, THE CANDY MAMA. >> THE WOMAN YOU ARE TALKING...
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| 00:48:04 |
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UTAH. WHO, LIKE-- WHEN HE LANDED HE HAD IN EIGHT MM PRIEGER SPRING LOADED MOVE THE CAMERA AND HE WAS NUTS TO USE THAN THE FIRST TIME HE LANDED IN BERLIN,...
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| 00:51:41 |
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GET MORE STUFF AND AT ONE POINT IT GOT TO 2200 CALORIES PER PERSON THAT WE WERE BRINGING IN. THAT WAS MORE THAN THE BRITISH WERE GIVING THEMSELVES....
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| 00:51:57 |
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BRITISH AIR MARSHAL NAMED MERCK'S WAY TO SET UP ALL NIGHT WITH THE SLIDE RULE AND 4500 TONS WAS WHAT THEY FIGURED THEY NEEDED. AND, HE BROUGHT IN HOW...
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| 00:54:17 |
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IN PHILADELPHIA AND THEY WENT WELL BEYOND BERLIN AND FOUND THEMSELVES IN SOVIET CONTROLLED TERRITORY AND HAD TO TURN AROUND AND COME BACK. THERE ARE...
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| 00:55:03 |
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NO ONE COULD TELL HIM, THAT THIS IS HOW AMERICANS SEE THEMSELVES. THIS IS HOW WE WANT TO BE. THIS IS THE WAY PEOPLE MY AGE WERE BROUGHT UP, BELIEVING...
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| 00:56:54 |
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BRITISH SAY. I AM SURE RICHARD WOULD BE HAPPY TO TAKE YOUR QUESTIONS. >> AS I WAS LISTENING TO YOU IN READING A LITTLE BIT OF THE BOOK I REALIZED HOW...
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| 00:57:25 |
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KENNEDY, NIXON-- >> KENNEDY NIXONLAND REAGAN COULD EITHER OF THEM HAVE DONE WHAT TRUMAN DID? WITH EITHER OF THEM HAVE HAD THE WILL TO OVERCOME THE OPPOSITION...
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| 00:57:42 |
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I DON'T KNOW. THE TRILOGY I WROTE ON
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| 00:57:48 |
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REALLY SHOWS WHAT A REACTIVE JOB IT IS, THE CAMPAIGNS OF PROMISES AND THOSE THINGS DON'T MEAN ANYTHING. WE'LL PAY PRESIDENTS BY THE HOUR. WE PAY THEM...
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| 00:58:05 |
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WAS THE ONLY ONE OF THOSE THREE MEN. REAGAN WOULD BE THE NEXT, WHO WOULD DO SOMETHING STRICTLY ON INSTINCT. HE HAD NO IDEA THAT IT WOULD WORK, BUT...
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| 00:59:33 |
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OF IT WAS LUCK BUT YOU KNOW, THE GREAT MAKE THEIR OWN LUCK. I WANTED TO SAY ONE THING ABOUT TRUMAN'S ROLE IN ALL OF THIS AND WHEN I WAS LOOKING
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| 00:59:43 |
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FOR SOMETHING TO WRITE WHAT ACTUALLY GOT ME TO WRITE IT WAS IN READING TONY JUDD THE POSSIBLE OUTCOME OF POST FOR WHICH IS A VERY FINE BOOK ON THIS...
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| 01:00:38 |
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TO AIRLIFT BERLIN. IT WOULD SEEM THE UNITED NATIONS LIKE SO MANY TIMES WHEN SECURITY COUNCILMEMBERS THAT AT
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| 01:00:49 |
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ODDS, JUST DEBATES AND THERE IS NO INACTION. >> WELL, THE PICTURE THAT WE SAW HERE FOR A MOMENT OF PEOPLE TALKING AT A TABLE WAS THE SOVIET AMBASSADOR,...
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| 01:01:14 |
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WHILE. STALIN TOOK NEITHER ADVISE NOR QUESTIONS AS FAR AS ANYONE COULD TELL BUT AMERICAN REPORTERS WOULD CONSTANTLY SEND OF WRITTEN QUESTIONS TO THE...
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| 01:03:45 |
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DECISION TO DO THE
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| 01:03:47 |
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AIRLIFT? >> WHAT'S RELATED TO IT WAS AS MANY OF YOU
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| 01:03:53 |
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PROBABLY REMEMBER IN THE POTSDAM CONFERENCE IN WHICH THE-- WERE SET
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| 01:03:57 |
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UP, CHURCHILL WAS PRIME MINISTER. HE WAS THEN DEFEATED BY CLEMENT ATLEY OF THE LABOUR PARTY AND A KEY FIGURE FOR THE BRITISH WAS NOT
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| 01:04:10 |
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ACKLEY BUT WAS ERNEST BEVIN, THE LABOR LEADER WHO BECAME A GREAT FOREIGN SECRETARY OF BRITAIN, AND ACKLEY IN THE LAST MONTH OF THE AIRLIFT, THE FIRST...
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| 01:05:05 |
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IN THE LOBBY ARE AT STICKING AROUND FOR A FEW MINUTES TO SIGN COPIES. THANKS AGAIN FOR COMING IN WE WILL SEE YOU SOON. RICHARD REEVES IS THE AUTHOR OF...
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