at Studio 54  I was introduced to Steve Rubell and Cohn was standing next to him.  Roy looked like snarling distrustful hatred.

00:00 – Introduction
01:32 – Kai Bird on Becoming a Biographer
04:05 – The Story Behind His Name
04:50 – Winning the Pulitzer Prize for American Prometheus
05:55 – Christopher Nolan and Oppenheimer
06:42 – Childhood, Education, and Early Career
08:13 – John McCloy and the American Establishment
09:26 – Auschwitz and the Decision Not to Bomb the Rail Lines
10:50 – McCloy, the Shah of Iran, and Jimmy Carter
11:59 – McGeorge and William Bundy
13:04 – The Bundys and the Vietnam War
15:09 – CIA Officer Robert Ames
17:16 – J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Atomic Bomb
18:53 – Radiation, Hiroshima, and Nagasaki
19:46 – Truman’s Role in Dropping the Atomic Bomb
20:10 – Oppenheimer’s Tense Meeting With Truman
22:06 – Why Oppenheimer Lost His Security Clearance
23:35 – Oppenheimer After the Security Hearing
25:08 – How Biographers Judge Their Subjects
27:00 – Why Kai Bird Wrote About Jimmy Carter
29:12 – Carter’s Cooperation With the Biography
30:47 – Writing a Book With His Wife
31:31 – Why Write a Biography of Roy Cohn?
33:06 – Roy Cohn’s Rise With Joseph McCarthy
34:30 – McCarthyism, Communism, and the Lavender Scare
35:27 – The Army-McCarthy Hearings
38:04 – G. David Schine and Joseph Welch
39:45 – Roy Cohn’s Career After McCarthy
41:42 – Roy Cohn Meets Donald Trump
43:41 – Roy Cohn’s Private and Public Lives
44:44 – Roy Cohn’s AIDS Diagnosis
45:02 – Roy Cohn, Ronald Reagan, and Roger Stone
46:13 – Roy Cohn’s Death and Legacy
47:21 – Roy Cohn and Barbara Walters
48:07 – What Comes After the Roy Cohn Biography?
49:00 – Kai Bird’s Research and Writing Process
50:53 – Choosing a Biography Subject
52:15 – Is Being a Biographer Worth It?
52:47 – David McCullough’s Writing Advice
53:47 – Reflections on Kai Bird’s Career
54:29 – Favorite Biographers and the Leon Levy Center
55:28 – Closing Remarks
55:51 – Library of Congress Bonus Segment

2:55 I've enjoy sci-fi for many of the same aspects, actual progressive writers stumble against instilled maligned values systems for sure.
24:29 🎒
35:00
☮📵

No knowledge of how PhD. is attained, but couldn’t any of his books be considered as a dissertation to defend🤔

Surprised C-SPAN would platform a known communist like Bird; maybe Congress needs to re-examine the tax on people's cable bills that funds this leftist agitation and propaganda.

He should have said, It's better than being named Sue.

you people force us into your stupid influence but that isn't freedom... true freedom affords people the freedom and the right to segregate because that is freedom

do not decide mine

-->> fate(n.)
late 14c., "one's lot or destiny; predetermined course of life;" also "one's guiding spirit," from Old French fate and directly from Latin fata (source also of Spanish hado, Portuguese fado, Italian fato)

-->> freedom (n.)Old English freodom "power of self-determination, state of free will; emancipation from slavery, deliverance;" see free (adj.) + -dom. Meaning "exemption from arbitrary or despotic control, civil liberty" is from late 14c. Meaning "possession of particular privileges" is from 1570s. Similar formation in Old Frisian fridom, Dutch vrijdom, Middle Low German vridom.

-->> determine(v.)
late 14c., determinen, "to settle, decide upon; state definitely; fix the bounds of; limit in time or extent," also "come to a firm decision or definite intention" (to do something), from Old French determiner (12c.) and directly from Latin determinare "to enclose, bound, set limits to," from de "off" (see de-) + terminare "to mark the end or boundary," from terminus "end, limit" (see terminus).

Freedom of speech and of the press

Freedom of religion and conscience

Freedom of assembly and association

Right to privacy

Right to due process and a fair trial

-->> pervert(v.)
late 14c., perverten (transitive), "to turn someone aside from a right religious belief to a false or erroneous one; to distort natural order, misdirect misapply (justice, law, truth, etc.); to turn (something or someone) from right opinion or conduct," from Old French pervertir "pervert, undo, destroy" (12c.) and directly from Latin pervertere "overthrow, overturn," figuratively "to corrupt, subvert, abuse," literally "turn the wrong way, turn about," from per "away" (see per) + vertere "to turn, turn back, be turned; convert, transform, translate; be changed" (from PIE root *wer- (2) "to turn, bend").

-->> pander(n.)
"arranger of sexual liaisons, one who caters for the lusts of others," 1520s, "procurer, pimp," from Middle English Pandare (late 14c.), used by Chaucer ("Troylus and Cryseyde"), who borrowed it from Boccaccio (who had it in Italian form Pandaro in "Filostrato") as name of the prince (Greek Pandaros), who procured the love of Cressida (his niece in Chaucer, his cousin in Boccaccio) for Troilus. The story and the name are medieval inventions. The name turns up in ancient Greek, but without the story; in Homer he is a Lycian participant in the Trojan War.

->> Alvin Goldstein (January 10, 1936 – December 19, 2013) was an American pornographer. He is known for helping normalize hardcore pornography in the United States ..

-->> In his 2004 book XXX-Communicated: A Rebel Without a Shul, Luke Ford wrote about a conversation with Goldstein, in which Ford asked Goldstein why Jews were dramatically overrepresented in the porn industry. He answered, "The only reason that Jews are in pornography is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks. We don't believe in authoritarianism. Pornography thus becomes a way of defiling Christian culture and, as it penetrates to the very heart of the American mainstream (and is no doubt consumed by those very same WASPs), its subversive character becomes more charged." Ford then asked, "What does it mean to you to be a Jew?" To which Goldstein responded, "It doesn't mean anything. It means that I'm called a kike." Ford also asked, "Do you believe in God?" Goldstein said, "I believe in me. I'm God. Screw God. God is your need to believe in some super being. I am the super being. I am your God, admit it. We're random. We're the flea on the butt of the dog

->> The following countries have the highest estimated World War II casualties: the Soviet Union (20 to 27 million), China (15 to 20 million), Germany (6 to 7.4 million), Poland (5.9 to 6 million), Dutch East Indies/Indonesia (3 to 4 million), Japan (2.5 to 3.1 million), India (2.2 to 3 million), Yugoslavia (1 to 1.7 million), French Indochina (Laos, Cambodia, part of Vietnam) (1 to 2.2 million), and France (600,000)....

-->> traitor(n.)
c. 1200, traitour, "one who betrays any trust or duty; a tempter;" in a general sense "treacherous or untrustworthy person," also specifically "one guilty of high treason," from Old French traitor, traitre "traitor, villain, deceiver" (11c., Modern French traître), from Latin traditor "betrayer," literally "one who delivers" (source also of Spanish traidor, Italian traditore; the Latin noun also meant "a teacher"), agent noun from stem of tradere "deliver, hand over." This is a compound from trans- "over" (see trans-) + dare "to give" (from PIE root *do- "to give").

-->> The United States' happiness index has dropped to its lowest point in the 2025 World Happiness Report, ranking 24th globally. This decline is linked to several factors, including a sharp increase in loneliness, particularly among young adults, and the rise in "deaths of despair" (from suicide, alcohol, or drug overdose). The country's ranking has fallen significantly since its peak in 2012, when it was 11th.

-->> The United States is home to the largest number of prisoners worldwide. Roughly 1.8 million people were incarcerated in the U.S. at the end of 2023. In China, the estimated prison population totaled to 1.69 million people that year. Other nations had far fewer prisoners. Jan 8, 2024

-->> Mental illnesses are common in the United States, affecting more than one in five adults... In 2021, 57.8 million adults in the United States lived with a mental illness. The most common mental illnesses include: Depression, Anxiety, Bipolar disorder, Schizophrenia, Dementia...

-->> 65% of the people in the United States... have one form or another of a chronic degenerative disease... 45% have two or more of those debilitating diseases.... we have children under the age of 2 developing diabetes.... kids under the age of 12 with fatty liver disease....

-->> Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death in the United States.. On average, there are 129 suicides per day. Suicide is the third leading cause of death for Americans aged 15 to 24...

-->> Suicide is a leading cause of death for young people, but not the third for the specified age range:
For ages 10-14 and 25-34: Suicide is the second leading cause of death.
For ages 15-24: Suicide is the third leading cause of death.
It is important to note that suicide is the second leading cause of death for people ages 10-34.
In 2022, suicide was the 11th leading cause of death overall in the United States.

-->> the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that about 20% of the U.S. population, or roughly one in five people, had a sexually transmitted infection (STI) on any given day in 2018. This translates to an estimated 68 million prevalent STIs. In addition, nearly 26 million new STI infections were acquired in 2018...

-->> In 2022, approximately 79% of U.S. adults were literate, while 21% were illiterate, with 54% of adults having literacy skills below a sixth-grade level. This low literacy has significant economic consequences, costing the U.S. economy an estimated $2.2 trillion annually in lost productivity and earnings.

- Taxpayer cost: Illiteracy costs American taxpayers about $20 billion each year.

-->> In 2022, the U.S. had a higher rate of fatal traffic crashes compared to many other countries, particularly when considering the fatality rate per 100 million vehicle miles traveled. While the U.S. experienced a decrease in traffic fatalities from 2021 to 2022, the overall fatality rate remained high relative to many other nations.

-->> The United States has one of the largest homeless populations in the world,.. with over half a million people experiencing homelessness each night... However, the true number of homeless people in the United States could be 2.5 to 10.2 times greater...
Top 10 U.S. Literacy Rate Statistics... 21% of adults in the US are illiterate in 2022... 54% of adults have a literacy below sixth-grade level

-->> The U.S. has the lowest life expectancy at birth, the highest death rates for avoidable or treatable conditions, the highest maternal and infant mortality, and among the highest suicide rates... The U.S. has the highest rate of people with multiple chronic conditions and an obesity rate nearly twice the OECD average. Jan 31, 2023