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The Brian Lehrer Show

Tuesday, May 04, 2004
  • President Lyndon B. Johnson, and Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara (US DOS)

    War Cloud

    As our country focuses in on the war on terror, Helen Caldicott and Robert McNamara contend our most serious threats is still nuclear. Not a bomb in a suitcase but thousands of Russian warheads, remnants of the cold war, still targeting our cities.

Women in Uniform

Melissa Sheridan Embser-Herbert Ph.D , associate professor of Sociology at Hamline University and author, Camouflage Isn't Only for Combat: Gender, Sexuality, and Women in the Military (NYU Press, 1998 and A Modest Proposal: Privacy as a Flawed Rationale for the Exclusion of Gays and Lesbians from the U.S. Military (International Security, 2002) discusses women in the military and the participation of women in the abuses at Abu Gharaib
and Colonel Sam Gardiner Retired Air Force Colonel who teaches military operations at The War Colleges

Eat the Rich, Fight with the Church, Save the Woods

Bob Hennelly WNYC New Jersey correspondent and a contributing editor for New Jersey Monthly on McGreevey's eighth inning maneuverings

Yongbyon Silver

David Kang associate professor of government and adjunct associate professor at the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (Columbia University Press, 2003)
and Victor Cha D.S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and associate professor of government in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and co-author, Nuclear North Korea: A Debate on Engagement Strategies (Columbia University Press, 2003

Open Phones

Listeners' reactions to Robert McNamara, and Vietnam veterans.

Your Fab Cab

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Who is in your fantasy Obama cabinet? Pick anyone!

Word from Abroad

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John Burns, London bureau chief for the New York Times, reflects on his work in China, Afghanistan, Yugoslavia, and Iraq.

Chief of Technology

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Andrew Rasiej, founder of Personal Democracy Forum, talks about the potential presidential cabinet position of Chief Technology Officer. Who's in your fantasy cabinet? Visit our Fab Cab page and let us know.

Digesting Politics

A weekly podcast with Brian Lehrer and Andrea Bernstein

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Eavesdrop on Andrea Bernstein and Brian Lehrer, two of the most political savvy minds around, as they eat lunch and break down the week’s political activities.

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