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    Changing Chairs

    Jun 12, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    ... presidency, number three. DORIS KEARNS GOODWIN: Haynes is absolutely right. I mean, in some ways Fulbright's power as the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee came from those televised hearings on Vietnam. Of course, Johnson didn't like that and used to called Fulbright half bright as a ...

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    The President and the Press

    Apr 25, 2001 04:00 AM EDT

    KENNETH WALSH: He tried to ingratiate himself with the media. TERENCE SMITH: Kenneth Walsh, White House correspondent for U.S. News and World Report, wrote the book Feeding the Beast, about the relationship between presidents and the press. KENNETH WALSH: Largely because of Watergate, and Vietnam and the Clinton impeachment ...

  • WATCH: Trump says Philippines will pay 19% tariffs in deal struck with leader Marcos

    WATCH: Trump says Philippines will pay 19% tariffs in deal struck with leader Marcos

    Jul 22, 2025 03:20 PM EDT

    ... continues to be the cornerstone of that relationship." He said the cooperation has deepened since Hegseth's March visit to Manila, including joint exercises and U.S. support in modernizing the Philippines' armed forces. Marcos thanked the U.S. for support "that we need in the face of the threats ...

  • EU trade ministers call Trump's 30% tariff 'absolutely unacceptable,' plan countermeasures

    EU trade ministers call Trump's 30% tariff 'absolutely unacceptable,' plan countermeasures

    Jul 14, 2025 09:49 PM EDT

    ... European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen told reporters in Brussels on Sunday. Maroš Šefčovič, the EU's trade representative in its talks with the U.S., said negotiations would continue Monday. "I'm absolutely 100% sure that a negotiated solution is much better than the tension which we might ...

  • Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning filmmaker who made 'The Sorrow and the Pity,' is dead at 97

    Marcel Ophuls, Oscar-winning filmmaker who made 'The Sorrow and the Pity,' is dead at 97

    May 26, 2025 04:59 PM EDT

    ... Paris, they fled again — across the Pyrenees into Spain, and on to the United States. Marcel became an American citizen and later served as a U.S. Army GI in occupied Japan. But it was his father’s towering legacy that shaped his early path. “I was born under the ...

  • Trump to join his top economic advisers for trade negotiations with Japan at the White House

    Trump to join his top economic advisers for trade negotiations with Japan at the White House

    Apr 16, 2025 02:42 PM EDT

    ... both Bessent and U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer are “known to be pro-Japan and professionally talented” and that he hopes to build a relationship of trust with them. “I believe we can have good talks toward a win-win relationship that will serve national interest for both Japan ...

  • Trump considers pausing his auto tariffs to give carmakers more time

    Trump considers pausing his auto tariffs to give carmakers more time

    Apr 14, 2025 08:59 PM EDT

    ... suggested that its tariffs had isolated China as the U.S. engaged in talks with other countries. But China is also seeking to build tighter relationships in Asia with nations stung by Trump's tariffs. China’s leader, Xi Jinping, on Monday met in Hanoi with Vietnam's Communist Party ...

  • Canadians grapple with a sense of betrayal after Trump's trade war and 51st state threats

    Canadians grapple with a sense of betrayal after Trump's trade war and 51st state threats

    Feb 04, 2025 06:48 PM EDT

    ... the early 1960s, there was a bitter rift because of personal enmity between President John F. Kennedy and Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, who balked at U.S. pressure to be more aggressive in Cold War maneuverings. Later the Vietnam War caused some divisions, as Canadians — including Trudeau’s father, then ...

  • As economic challenges and security threats linger, China marks 75 years of Communist Party rule

    As economic challenges and security threats linger, China marks 75 years of Communist Party rule

    Oct 01, 2024 03:49 PM EDT

    ... now self-governing island democracy of Taiwan. Beijing continues to insist Taiwan must be annexed under Communist Party rule, by force if necessary, while the U.S. has provided arms to ensure its defense. China, meanwhile, has involved itself in disputes over its claims to most of the South China ...

  • WATCH: Biden calls Australia 'an anchor to peace and prosperity' during state visit from Albanese

    WATCH: Biden calls Australia 'an anchor to peace and prosperity' during state visit from Albanese

    Oct 25, 2023 04:29 PM EDT

    ... press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said there's “no more important time than now” to hold the state visit to demonstrate the strength of the U.S. relationship with Australia. The outbreak of war “doesn’t stop the work that the president has continued to do, whether it’s these ...