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<title><![CDATA[Ken Burns - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/25348.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Ken Burns]]></description><category domain="25348">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[U.S. Founding Most Important Event Since Birth of Christ]]></title>
							<link>https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ken-burns-on-the-american-revolution/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ken Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The documentary filmmaker, long a chronicler of the American experience, talks about his latest film for PBS,]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How the Vietnam War Broke the American Presidency]]></title>
							<link>https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/10/how-americans-lost-faith-in-the-presidency/537897/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 15 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ken Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On april 30, 1975,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' when the last helicopter lifted off the roof of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, the Vietnam War, the most consequential event in American history since World War II, ended in failure. More than 58,000 Americans and as many as 3 million Vietnamese had died in the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Vietnam's Unhealed Wounds]]></title>
							<link>https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/29/opinion/ken-burns-lynn-novick-vietnam-war.html?ref=opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ken Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On April 23, 1975, President Gerald R. Ford delivered an'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' address'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' at Tulane University in New Orleans. As the president spoke, more than 100,000 North Vietnamese troops were approaching Saigon, having overrun almost all of South Vietnam in just three months. Thirty years after the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[This Fourth of July, Celebrate Our 85 Million-Acre Backyard]]></title>
							<link>http://time.com/4389075/our-backyard-is-85-million-acres/?xid=homepage&amp;pcd=hp-magmod</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 02 Jul 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ken Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On the Fourth of July, as we once more read the stirring words of the Declaration of Independence and celebrate the creation of a nation'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('ƒ').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¢').';'?'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('¦').';']]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gettysburg Address: Learn Lincoln's Words by Heart]]></title>
							<link>http://www.cnn.com/2013/11/12/opinion/burns-gettysburg-address/index.html?hpt=op_t1</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Nov 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Ken Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In one week, our nation will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. President Abraham Lincoln spoke for only two minutes. He started off by reminding his audience that it had been only 87 years since the country's founding, and then went on to embolden the Union cause...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Why I am Voting for Obama]]></title>
							<link>http://www.unionleader.com/article/20121019/OPINION02/710199989/1004/opinion</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Ken Burns</author>
							<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite movies of all time is Frank Capra's '&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('œ').';'It's A Wonderful Life,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('�').';' starring Jimmy Stewart. In the film, Stewart's character, a despondent and near suicidal George Bailey, who runs a small savings and loan in the town of Bedford Falls, is given a gift: the chance to...]]></description>
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