Daily Archives: February 4, 2015

FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta 70 years ago this hour (Feb 4 1945)

1940s, U.S. Presidents, World War II


Video: '1945 Newsreel: The Yalta Conference begins' (Feb. 4, 1945, at 3:14)

(Sunday, February 4, 1945, 5:10 p.m. local time; during World War II) — U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin met today in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea for the eight-day Yalta Conference to discuss and plan the postwar world. Continue reading FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta 70 years ago this hour (Feb 4 1945) →

Johnson adviser McGeorge Bundy arrives in Saigon 50 years ago this morning (Feb 4 1965)

1960s, Cold War, U.S. Presidents, Vietnam War


Video: 'Vietnam: A Television History - LBJ Goes to War [3/11]' (Feb. 4, 1965, at 24:22)

(Thursday, February 4, 1965, morning local time; during the Vietnam War, part of the Indochina Wars and the Cold War) — National Security Adviser McGeorge Bundy, who had recently urged President Lyndon Johnson to bomb North Vietnam, arrived in Saigon this morning for a “fact” search.