45/85

This probably is one of the best made for television documentaries I have ever seen. I love the fact that they were able to cover many of the major events in from the forty years since the end of World War II and show how the cold war pretty much had an effect on this country either indirectly of directly. I especially thought that they pretty much indicted Lyndon Johnson by saying that he pretty much had to go to war in Vietnam to justify probably the greatest programs for social change since the depression, the Great Society. The only thing that I think was lacking with this is the fact that they tended to gloss over some major events in that era, especially the major racial upheavals in America, especially the Watts riots in 1965. Also, the most ironic thing about this is that less than four years later, the Berlin Wall came down ending the major story that this documentary was covering. This is one great documentary.

Also, if you listen to the comments at the end of the show, you will notice that Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, who's politics I don't agree with, both said something that was eerily prophetic. They both said that they didn't believe that there would be a third world war, but from some country in the Third World. In light of what happened 9/11, they were oh so right.