Episode 1011: Americans Who Made the 20th Century — From Ronald Reagan to Hedy Lamarr
Newt's World
Gingrich 360
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🗓️ 18 July 2026
⏱️ 29 minutes
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What does it mean to have the American can-do spirit — and who best embodied it during the most turbulent century in our nation's history? Author Richard Battle joins Newt to discuss his new book, AmeriCANS Who Made America: 20th Century — The American Century, the fourth volume in his celebrated series. Battle profiles 43 patriots, leaders, and innovators who carried America forward through the Spanish flu, two World Wars, the Great Depression, the Civil Rights Movement, and the Space Race. The conversation brings several of them to life: Audie Murphy, the orphaned farm boy who became World War II's most decorated soldier; John Wayne, who used film to inspire patriotism; Ronald Reagan, the everyday American who became president; Martin Luther King Jr., who achieved more for civil rights in 13 years than the previous 350; and Hedy Lamarr, the Hollywood star whose wartime invention became the foundation of Wi-Fi, GPS, and Bluetooth.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:07.8 | Welcome to New World Podcast on the IHeart Podcast Network. |
| 0:12.2 | This week, the guard rails came back off in the Middle East, and I think it's the most |
| 0:16.5 | consequential national security story of the year so far. |
| 0:23.0 | On July 10th, President Trump sent formal notice to Congress that the United States was resuming military strikes against Iran |
| 0:27.5 | after Iranian forces attack neutral commercial vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz. |
| 0:34.2 | This gets all involved in legislative baloney. The fact is, the president's got to make a decision. |
| 0:41.0 | Are we, in fact, going to force the Iranian dictatorship to allow traffic through the |
| 0:47.5 | Strait of Ramos, no matter what it costs, or are we going to continue this dance in which |
| 0:53.8 | they clearly are not particularly intimidated by us? |
| 0:58.1 | I believe in order to get their attention at a serious level, he is going to have to take out a large |
| 1:04.8 | number of infrastructures to a point where the Iranian leadership is faced with an inability to make the country function. |
| 1:14.5 | I can't imagine any circumstance, and we've had months now of the Iranian dictatorship |
| 1:19.7 | trying to tell us over and over again, they're not going to give in. |
| 1:23.9 | They're not going to give up on their nuclear program. |
| 1:26.1 | They're not going to give up on the Straits of Hormuz. They're not, in fact, going to participate in any meaningful will. And I think |
| 1:32.8 | that requires us to think bolder in a much stronger way. Let me give an example. There's billions of |
| 1:39.2 | dollars that are currently locked up that are Iranian money. Well, why aren't those billions being charged |
| 1:47.6 | to pay for every ship the Iranians hit? You could literally say any ship hit by the Iranians |
| 1:55.8 | is owed three times the cost of repairing the ship, and it's going to be taken directly out of the |
| 2:02.1 | Iranian money. So the Iranians, in effect, every time they attack somebody, are charging themselves |
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