eastern, university of washington , thessor william orbach beatniks of the 1950's and 1960's. veterans of the great depression, world war ii, the holocaust and the atomic age, the hippies were the optimistic children of the baby-boom generation and the rising affluence of the postwar consumer boom. eastern on railamerica, 30 years ago, oliver north appear before the house and senate select committee's investigating the iran-contra affair. >> people are not to be led to believe by the way you're asking the question to intensely deceive the american people or had that intent to begin with. the effort to conduct these covert operations was made in such a way that our adversaries would have knowledge of them or that we could deny american association with them or the association of this government with those activities. and that is not wrong. >> sunday at noon, historians, authors and ron paul explore the consequences of what they call america's post-world war ii secured a state. >> the people who like authoritarianism, to tell people what to do, they know it is it illegal for an