Vietnam summit ends early: What makes history seldom makes headlines
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The Denison Forum
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🗓️ 28 February 2019
⏱️ 5 minutes
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What makes headlines seldom makes history. Today's podcast contrasts temporal success and eternal significance, inviting us to make the one choice that gives life purpose and power.
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| 0:00.0 | Vietnam Summit ends early. What makes history seldom makes headlines. This is Jim Denison's |
| 0:08.1 | daily article for Thursday, February 28, 2019. The Vietnam Summit has ended. North Korean leader |
| 0:14.4 | Kim Jong-un insisted all U.S. sanctions be lifted on his country, offering to dismantle his |
| 0:19.2 | Young Beyond nuclear complex in return. |
| 0:22.0 | President Trump said Washington wanted a deal that includes other parts of the Norse nuclear |
| 0:25.6 | program. |
| 0:26.8 | I just felt it wasn't good enough, Mr. Trump said. |
| 0:29.1 | We had to have more. |
| 0:30.4 | The two sides ended their meeting amicably, but without producing an agreement. |
| 0:34.5 | Whether the summit is a setback or a step toward peace is open to interpretation. |
| 0:38.7 | While Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim were meeting in Vietnam, Michael Cohen was testifying before Congress. |
| 0:43.8 | The president's former personal attorney spent more than six hours yesterday answering questions |
| 0:48.0 | from the House Oversight Committee. Whether his statements damage the president or not is open |
| 0:52.5 | to interpretation. |
| 0:58.2 | Historical events are objective, but the way they are reported and remembered is subjective. |
| 1:02.1 | In other news, Israel launched its first spacecraft last week. |
| 1:07.9 | Beresit, Hebrew for Genesis, will be the smallest craft to land on the moon, but it is carrying something of great significance, the so-called Lunar Library. This is a |
| 1:12.3 | disc containing 25,000 books, a full copy of Wikipedia, and information on understanding |
| 1:17.6 | earthly languages. In total, a 30 million-page tome. The library is intended to preserve |
| 1:23.1 | humanity's knowledge and history long after we're gone. Did your story make the Lunar Library? |
| 1:29.1 | On the day of your salvation, you joined a faith family that will be alive in paradise |
| 1:32.3 | 10,000 millennia after the moon and everything on it perishes. |
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