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Ken Burns

👤 Speaker
2924 total appearances

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The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

That's why, you know.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

And we're constantly being bombarded with what is the correct way to see this?

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

You know, it's 1776 or it's 1619 or it's this.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

No, it's from 1775 to 1781 or 1783, depending on whether it's Yorktown or the British leaving York.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

It is.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

You know what?

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

We've been talking about the Cold War.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

I can't believe you brought that up, Chuck.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

We're on the same wavelength.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

So we've been talking for probably two decades about the Cold War.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

And about a year ago, I said, I want to make it the CIA.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

So we're doing a big, we're just beginning to sort of unload and create the space.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

I like took all the books and stuff like that and put it in a corner of my house.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

And I put a sign up over and said, Langley, you know, because that's where we're going to collect all the CIA notes and papers.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

And we talked to some people.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

We know how we're going to do it because you'll get the Cold War.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

Yeah.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

But you also get all the intimacies of the stories, you know?

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

Yeah.

The Chuck ToddCast
Interview Only w/ Ken Burns - Lessons From History On America’s 250th Birthday

Like I was just talking to Rick Atkinson, the historian who described a friend that he knew, a Russian, who disappeared because Aldrich Ames betrayed him.