lenin, draft of letter to hoover. november 22, 1922. dear mr. hoover, help to us from an outstanding organizer and the leader of industry in a country with principles of economic system opposite to ours, would have exclusively. 1923 it was finally decided that the history of american aid was ending, although the english quakers and nanson planned to continue their work in the ussr. americans are packing their things and returning home, some with new todays. it should be borne in mind that those who came to russia were young men, and they worked together with young russian women in... somehow tried to refrain in general from showing the americans such feelings of gratitude, or what? it is clear that the special services mainly tried to monitor the hired russian employees, who then had to stop working and stay in soviet russia. year the mission leaves and this person finds himself alone, this is one of the hardest things in the history of ara from a personal point of view, because the card indexes of people who worked as hired workers russian vars

here, the joint mission never took place because of hoover's character. his name was the man who worked on the mission, the chief, he was the chief, he was the boss, yes, and he didn't want to work with others, he always wanted everything to be in his... exported abroad, and what's interesting is that haskell justified this export, despite the noise around it, he said that russia needs currency, needs reconstruction, restoration of the national economy, and where can it get this money, the west does not give loans only by exporting some agricultural products, but i really know that it was not so much grain that was exported, but flax, well, and apparently some other technical crops. hoover again thinks about ending the mission, but until june 1923, ara will continue to provide assistance to russia. indeed, a significant part of american society, it simply could not understand how hoover could help these communists, these commissars, these bolsheviks. but hoover, he took such a very detached position, that is, he said that for him, millions of starving peo

lenin, draft of a letter to hoover, november 22 , 1922. dear mr. hoover, help to us from an outstanding organizer and leader of industry in a country with principles of an economic system opposite to ours would be of exceptional important, would be especially desirable and pleasant for us. all this matter remains pending your decision, strictly confidential, with respect, lenin. in russia, what would have happened, we, unfortunately, will never know. in the summer of 1923, it was finally decided that the history of american aid was ending, although the english quaker and nanson planned to continue their work in... the ussr, the americans are packing their things and returning home, some with new families. it must be borne in mind that those who came to russia, it was young men, and they worked together with young russian women in the offices, there were parties, of course, together, so yes, they often got married, in my opinion, and 10% - sent from the center, that there should be no events with the involvement of the population, there should be of

so hoover says okay. fine with me if you put this operation up on center, if you get the okay of the president and they say, how do you do? he said, well, i think your best bet is to go through sky. we know that. i know hoover. his name is. and so go to cuneo, explain the situation and the white house says, yes, we should get involved. this is okay. but ernest, tell your it you're going be the one that deals with the churchill spies and and and so that story goes goes on and on that i explain in my book. but ernest was somebody who i think had a hard time adapting initially from seeking fame as a football player, and then suddenly being told in and during this time period to keep a low profile, he's working for one of the best known people in the country. and he's going out to these nightspots. but what i found really intriguing in this book was how he was a spy hiding in plain, as they say, and much of my book, it contains a number of different spy examples. but that either directly involved ernest cuneo

those were the worst four years of hoover's life. hoover was actually amazing with money. he was born in iowa and by the time he was nine both of his parents had died. he was a quaker. the quakers got together and appointed a senior elder to be in charge of the money, and each of the children live with a relative. little herbert hoover would spend his time and he would write budgets to submit to the financial guardian to get access to money to buy school clothes, books, education, things like that. we were at an early age is learning about money -- hoover at an early age is learning about money, and herbert hoover is learning the philosophy of the quakers about money. one philosophy was community is everything, and you have got to give back. herbert hoover and up becoming a bookkeeper for his uncle, that's into the first class at stanford. if anyone has kids in college, you want to know the tuition at stanford when he first went in the first class? zero, which is unbelievable today because it is $85,000 today. herbert hoover studies geology and get out of college in the mi

herbert hoover. now we all of herbert hoover from 1928 to 1932. right. and you about him and you're like, oh, bad presidency, hoovervilles, the depression. but were the worst four years of hoover's life. hoover was actually amazing with money and was born in iowa. and by the time he's nine, both of his parents have died. and hoover is a quaker. so the quakers got together and. they pointed a senior elder to be in charge of the hoover money and each of the hoover children go and live a relative. and so little herbert hoover would spend his time. he would write budgets to get to submit to the financial guardian, to get access to money, to buy school. his books, education, things like that. so hoover at an early age is learning about money and herbert is also learning these philosophy of, the quakers about money. and one philosophy was community is everything and you've got to give back. now herbert hoover ends up a bookkeeper for his uncle, gets into the first class at stanford. by the way, if anyone h

but they needed the permission of first hoover, j. edgar hoover running the f.b.i. at that point he had made his fame running after gangsters like john dillinger and he was somewhat aware that he wanted to get more of a spy espionage intelligence capability for the f.b.i. but wisely president roosevelt said, edgar, you stay on the domestic side, run after the law enforcement folks, the criminals and gangsters and stuff like that. and he eventually realizes he's got to create -- america's got to create its own intelligent service. that occurs right around the beginning of the war with pearl harbor. but in that 18 months from the time in which churchill takes power as the prime minister and when pearl harbor happens, 18 months in between, that's a big part of the book. that's the first 1/3 of my book, the leadup up to the war and that's where ernest cuneo, our man, working at rockefeller center with british skies including one guy, the head guy at rockefeller center, a guy named william intreaded stevenson overseeing things. but the person cuneo becomes friends with i

and i found a i think was three fbi documents, including one written by jack hoover. it was in early 1964. and what it said was in a nutshell that alan, who was had been the cia director, actually, he allen dulles was a great spy in world war two. he became friendly with cuneo and then when allen dulles becomes the head of the cia in the fifties, he maintains a correspondence with ernest cuneo. cuneo is what they call in spy terms. by that point he is an asset, a cia asset. when he sees things, he reports it to dulles. but in 1964 with the assassins version of jfk, there are seven people that are placed on the warren commission. one of whom is allen dulles. allen dulles had been the director of the cia for about 12 years, including part of jfk tenure until the fiasco in cuba known as the bay of pigs. and jfk gets rid dulles. but in 1964, lbj puts dulles on to the warren commission. and as they're investing, ending the murder of the president, dulles decides that he wants to kind of get his information out and he starts leaking to ernest cuneo. and it's in these fbi do

edgar hoover is an enemy, j. edgar hoover is trying to sink you.ut hoover also doesn't have much love for the kennedys as well. host: the scandal in england was a sexual scandal. why would jfk and rfk, who run the country and the judiciary department, not put a stop to hoover's surveillance? mr. joseph: well, hoover had evidence that jack kennedy as a young man had been involved with a woman who had been a spy for the germans. inga ervad. they also had evidence of jack kennedy's promiscuous sexual relationships, extramarital relationships, while serving as president of the united states. so they implicitly had evidence on kennedy. kennedy of course could technically fire the fbi director, but the director could leak all of that information to enemies of the kennedys, and that would be a scandal that was too much for the attorney general or the president to handle. host: so it is safe to say the kennedys were scared of hoover? mr. joseph: absolutely. the kennedys were scared of hoover and many presidents and people in washington at that time were. h

the nansen committee had much fewer opportunities than hoover's mission. nansen's order was somewhere around 500 thousand dollars, which is approximately 13% of the aid that the americans provided. the parcels usually contained grain, sugar and flour. unlike coover, nansen was not interested in politics, he was primarily burning with the idea of ​​helping people, so he agreed to... all the conditions, he went to russia himself and took photographs that many people later saw. the saratov province would become an area of ​​special responsibility for nansen, everywhere he observed the same picture: a growing catastrophe: hunger, poverty, death. in december 1921. but did not give up, instead, using the materials he had photographed in russia, he went and showed them, asked for funds from various relief organizations. these were horrific photographs of people dying or already dead from hunger. at the same time. artist sergei ivanov went from moscow to the volga region to see russia in its poverty with his own eyes, to capture, as he later wrote in his book the

us secretary of commerce herbert hoover in a letter to secretary of state charles evans hughes. i believe that humanism obliges us to intervene if they agree to the conditions set forth. if they do not refuse to accept them, we will be released from responsibility. the conditions were formulated as follows: immediate release of the americans held in russian prisons, guarantees of non-interference in the mission's activities , freedom of movement in russia. at the beginning of the nineteenth year, this is january-february, the structure is formed, just ara, the american administration of aid, american relief administration, which is headed by herbert hoover, while retaining all the other posts, including the us minister of food, so he begins to distribute this food. such a real big businessman of america of the twentieth century, he was a quaker, from childhood, he was imbued with the spirit of this religion and it was always important for him to help others, to help those who suffer. august 20, 1921. lenin drafts a resolution of the politburo on the closure of the state committe

by the time he gets to hoover working for who? president hoover wants to decommission the yacht and kuan was not very happy that. so a journalist asked him how he felt about it. and the back story to this is that it was president hoover's birthday and kuan was known for his cakes and so the the journalist asked kuan how he felt about the the birthday and also the yacht being decommissioned. and basically juan said, no mayflower, no cake. so as i write in the book, his flavor profile was salty. that's why i ask. that's great. so as you said, president hoover made chef quan really angry when he sold the mayflower. but it was carter who sold the last president. yeah. by that time. asian heritage had also long served presidents land. so these are some pictures of mid 20th century chefs. can you tell us a little bit about this group? sure. so i first came across chef pedro udoh, looking through the national geographic at the very end of eisenhower's second term, the national geographic, a wonderful profile. the white house and i saw th

did not even want to receive help from other groups, but there was a question in which nanson and hoover were completely united, february 21... haskell justified this removal, despite the fact that there was a fuss around, he said that russia needs currency, needs reconstruction, restoration of the national economy, but where can it get this money, the west does not give loans and that's it... but hoover, he took such a very detached position, that is, he said that for him millions of starving people are more important than politics, more important than the bolshevik regime, the most amazing thing i learned when i was studying this story is when i read the letter that lenin sent to govru in the twenty -second year, in which he writes that you are such a great capitalist. 1923 it was finally decided that the history of american aid was ending, although the english quakers and nanson planned to continue their work in the ussr. the americans are packing their things and returning home, some with new powers. it must be borne in mind that those who came to russia, these were young men, and th

>> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by... ...and by the following. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. >> chris hughes, welcome to "firing line." >> thanks for having me. >> your new book discusses the idea of what you call "marketcraft." this is, quote, "the intentional state-led effort to organize and manage markets for social or political ends." >> right. >> i'm gonna pose your own question to you. >> okay. >> which is, is marketcrafting just economic planning, dressed up in a new language? >> no, we haven't, in earnest, tried economic or central planning in the united states, at least in my research in history. we have done a lot of guiding and shaping markets towards political goals, like making americans richer, their lives more economically stable, and safer. and so i track a lot of that history, which is full of republicans and democrats shaping, managing markets, trying to make them work in a way that people are gonna like. and, of course, a lot of the time, there are successes, plenty of failures, too. and the whole idea is to te

the nansen committee, compared to hoover's mission, had much fewer opportunities.'s order was somewhere around $ 500,000, which is approximately 13% from the aid that the americans were providing. the villages usually had grain, sugar and flour. that death. in december 1921 , nanson came to samara, he needed to see what was happening with his own eyes. what he saw horrified him, but it also motivated him to speak out as loudly as possible about the tragedy that was happening in soviet russia. when nanjing was denied funds by both the league of nations and other official authorities, he was, of course, upset and disappointed. but he did not give up, instead, using the materials he had photographed in russia. he traveled, showed them, asked for funds from various charities. these were horrific photographs of people dying or already dead from hunger. at the same time , artist sergei ivanov went from moscow to the volga region to see russia in its poverty with his own eyes. to capture, as he later wrote in his book the history of famine in bolshevik russia, what the la

edgar hoover. and it's about the unchecked exploits nation of women in the film industry that's been going on since long before the metoo movement. but before we get to the legal, let's talk about the juicy stuff. how did chaplin suffer these somewhat self-inflicted wounds? to understand how far chaplin fell, we need to appreciate his outsized fame. show business was in his blood. he was born in 1889 to a pair of london musical stars and was thrust from his comfortable life into poverty when his father died. an alcoholic at 37 and his mother mother's mental health declined. he survived by joining a comedy troupe in 12, a tour to america, chaplin was spotted the new york stage by max bennett, who pioneered the keystone cop comedies. he signed $125 a week contract with keystone, but he quickly outgrew the plotless movies that were made there on the cheap. he created his own studios. he was one of the founders of united artists, and he made the classic silent movies that 100 years later, we recognize

edgar hoover. and it's about the unchecked exploits nation of women in the film industry that's been going on since long before the metoo movement. but before we get to the legal, let's talk about the juicy stuff. how did chaplin suffer these somewhat self-inflicted wounds? to understand how far chaplin fell, we need to appreciate his outsized fame. show business was in his blood. he was born in 1889 to a pair of london musical stars and was thrust from his comfortable life into poverty when his father died. an alcoholic at 37 and his mother mother's mental health declined. he survived by joining a comedy troupe in 12, a tour to america, chaplin was spotted the new york stage by max bennett, who pioneered the keystone cop comedies. he signed $125 a week contract with keystone, but he quickly outgrew the plotless movies that were made there on the cheap. he created his own studios. he was one of the founders of united artists, and he made the classic silent movies that 100 years later, we recognize

edgar hoover dated october 9th,. 1968, and the subject is black national movement in, the united states racial matters. the first sentence of this memo. the bureau has noted an increase in the establishment of black extremist bookstores, which represent propaganda outlets for revolutionary and hate publications and cults, real centers for extreme ism. what is this? so this is a memorandum issued by aj edgar hoover, longtime director of the fbi, stating that black extremist bookstores are a problem. and he added it, too. added these bookstores to the counterintelligence program that the fbi had in 1968. inresting. that was the same year that drummond's sphere bookstore in washington, d.c. was founded. and being in the backyard of the fbi they were highly scrutinized, highly surveilled, surveilled and, closed, because that. i got close to daphne muse, one of the employees of drummond spear, and she talked about having her own fbi agent, jim south, who would follow her to and from the store and asking her to inform him on her fellow drummond spear and it's really interesting, the project o

- [narrator] "firing line" with margaret hoover is made possible in part by robert granieri, the tepper foundation, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, peter and mary kalikow, pritzker military foundation, cliff and laurel asness, the meadowlark foundation, the beth and ravenel curry foundation. and by the following. corporate funding is provided by stevens inc. - senator lisa murkowski, welcome back to "firing line". - so good to be with you, margaret. it's been a while, but thank you. - too long. - yeah, yeah, yeah. - in response to president trump's announcement to the nation this last weekend, that three key nuclear facilities in iran were struck, you issued a statement saying, quote, "i am encouraged by the administration's assurance "that these strikes were deliberately limited in scope." your statement also stressed congress's role as the sole constitutional entity in the declaration of war. - yep. - at what point does the administration need to consult congress over this conflict? - well, i think if you go to the specifics of the war powers act, it requires a

- [announcer] "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by robert granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, peter and mary kalikow, cliff and laurel asness, the meadowlark foundation, the beth and ravenel curry foundation, and by the following. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. (bright music) - peggy noonan, welcome to "firing line." - thank you, margaret. it's great to be here. - i've known you for many years, and it is a great pleasure to welcome you to this program. your new book, "a certain idea of america," is a compilation of 80 columns that you have written between 2016 and now. as we sit here in the wake of a divisive election in which a twice-impeached convicted felon, a man for whom you never voted, and even called for his removal from office after january 6th, has been democratically reelected, in this moment, what is your idea? - what is my certain idea of america? - what is your certain idea of america? - the phrase "a certain idea of america" comes from the famous first sentence of charles de gaulle's war memoirs, "al

- [announcer] "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by robert granieri, the tepper foundation, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, peter and mary kalikow, pritzker military foundation, cliff and laurel asness, the meadowlark foundation, the beth and ravenel curry foundation. and by the following. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - jason riley, welcome to "firing line." - thank you. - it has been nearly two years since the supreme court ruled that in most cases, colleges and universities can no longer use race as a specific factor in college admissions. you have a recent book, "the affirmative action myth: why blacks don't need racial preferences to succeed." what is the myth you've set out to debunk? - the myth is that they do. (chuckling) one of the reasons i wrote the book, in fact, the impetus for writing the book was the discussion around that supreme court decision. there was all of this apocalyptic talk coming out of some members of the media, some members of academia, some politicians, that this would decimate the black middle

sergey sanovich, a fellow at the hoover institution at stanford. our guest, hello, sergey. good morning. we just heard trump's words about something exploding and the negotiation process ending. maybe it's just me, but it looks like trump is blaming ukraine for the breakdown of peace talks for the sbu operation web. what do you think? well, compared to his rhetoric at the beginning of his term, i would say it's more balanced, and he's even criticized putin a few times recently, so it seems to me that ukrainian diplomacy has managed to restore relations between the countries, zelensky has managed to restore relations with... trump and wentz and so to speak, further further developments, it seems to me, now depend largely on actions - on putin's actions, that is, trump is now simply using this phrase to explain why the negotiations have been suspended, or not, well, the negotiations have not been suspended, moreover, and the last round of negotiations took place after successful. attacks by the sbu on russian long-range aviation, which is used, is used every day to strike wit

since hoover the american people through congress have wanted this to be outside of politics so thatat's going on the fbi come a lot more the beginning of this particular term. have you spoken to any of your former colleagues? what is going on inside the building? >> james: i talked to a lot of them here they come up to me on the street or some i've known for a long time will reach out. they are struggling, worried about the reality and reputation of the fbi right now they are hunkering down most of all. >> stephen: have there been a lot of firings? people let go? have they hollowed out that building like they have other buildings? >> james: at the senior levels they forced out the seniormost appointees who were career people that christopher wray had in place, they force-out the head of the new york office in manhattan for being too much of a stand-up person. but the rank-and-file is in place and just trying to do their work. >> stephen: last week nbc news reported fbi field offices around the country been ordered to assign more agents to immigration enforcement. they are still ther

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me solve. hoover, hoover obviously if you lose results fully and then you pay coming out and say no pressure has nothing better to do than waste $1000000.00 missed calls on the pod foot building, which of course was, was always propaganda. is known to play 6 military assets in civilian areas that mean even recently the reports of growth in the factories being created in civilian homes. and then we get this blame that stone. russia was, the reality is this is you creating, putting its own people in danger? well, this is something that you crave a adult to official policy to decentralize it, the place where military production facility, i wouldn't even factories. most of you grades on productions on production, factors of long since being destroyed. this is your, you know, this is something the insurgents might set out somewhere to even juggle. so what they've done is they're draining production. they were off production, for example, as easily basements. incidentally, there is in cities. if you create a website and set up a factory, somewhat remote and industrial zoning, still paused, for exa

, hoover, obviously these moves, but as i was pulling a menu credit coming out and say, nope, russia has nothing better to do than waste $1000000.00 missiles on apartment buildings, which of course was, was always propaganda. but in this case, it is in the very shapes that they would cut off at the livid perhaps they felt the pressure pressure because on the 17th of june there was a similar strike by. 1 1 by rush about 10, we have full targeting, you created military industrial infrastructure in key of val, it's sort of popular building was hit by miss all the. 1 was a part of the sharp down by you create in the defense. is it an apartment building according to grade dozens that does he with a video of black me so shut down. does he have fully on the apartment building? yes. then, just a week ago, you paid the whole the fake news based on they've cut off. and the method the what the lensky said. what they had previously said about marshal talking about, i'll pop into this. it wasn't true. now this is one of the arguments that they've use. look at this destruction look at these apartm

people came to recognize the voice of herbert hoover college trained engineer and physical strength strike and the world should know that if we are to have peace and the voice around smith from the sidewalk of new york and i don't manically and i snaked from this platform. now it's 1933 in this time despair. radio transmitted a new encouraging voice. assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself itself. throughout the trying days of the depression, radio brought the heartening voice of the president to the people. fear vanishing and confidence is growing on every side. out of radio in the national fireside chat. radio gathered one of the largest audiences in history when edward abdicated. but i can't help. i'm so proud of the women i know. radio brought people of positive to great. and sometimes events. radio reporter herb morrison was describing the graceful arrival of the zeppelin hindenburg at lakehurst new, when suddenly none of the black and white gathered together, not even by that impression. that's right. terrible. all right, get out of the way. made it f

us secretary of commerce herbert hoover in a letter to secretary of state charles evans hughes. i believe that humanism obliges us to intervene if they agree to the conditions set forth. if they do not refuse to accept them, we will be released from responsibility. such a real big businessman of america of the 20th century, he was from the quakers, from childhood he was absorbed in the spirit of this religion and it was always important for him to help others, to help those who are suffering. august 20, 1921. lenin draws up a draft resolution of the politburo on the closure of the state committee for aid to the starving and on the arrest or expulsion of its members. and on the same day in riga, an agreement was signed between the bolshevik government and the american aid administration. on august 27, the same agreement will be signed with the mission of the scientist and public figure fridtjof nansan. he will coordinate the activities of about 30 international organizations. according to which he was to independently distribute this aid. it is surprising that the soviet authorit

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