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Achtung, Achtung! Welcome to We Have Ways of Making You Talk USA with me, Almari, James

Holland and John McManus. It'll mean nothing to the listener, but this is taken to doing,

pulling this together, isn't it? Today's podcast? I feel exhausted just one of those days

where I had to take my mother to a hospital appointment this morning, that's always a

treat. She lost her handbag, so I had to get and find that. They had to get back in

Salsbury, then back out of Salsbury again, got home, finally electricity off, did manage

to get into the Chort Valley History Festival office, sort of working now, but it's been

a traumatic day.

You talk about improvise, adapt and overcome. Yeah, exactly.

Exactly.

And now you've had your studio out for a whole time. Yeah, my whole studio, yeah, Fritz

this afternoon for some reason, but it's working again now. So John, have you had any

might have missed episode, calamities in the runoff?

You know, I'm almost, I'm leery about saying anything, because no, I haven't, but second,

I say that.

Who knows?

Right. Right. Now, today, what are we, what are we going to talk about today, Chaps?

Well, today we got Eisenhower, his war leader. I mean, I just think, I mean, we're talking

World War II, and we, you know, we're looking at the European theater a little bit, and

you just can't escape some kind of discussion of Eisenhower's impact on this whole thing.

He is really sort of the towering figure. And, and, and especially kind of as an international

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