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JOHN BATCHELOR SHOW
Co-host: Larry Kudlow, The Kudlow Report, CNBC; and Cumulus Media radio
 
Hour One
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 1, Block A:.  Matthew Hennessey, associate op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal; in re: Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe (8 January 1894 – 14 August 1941).  Polish Catholic priest ; ministry across Poland, spent time n Japan; when Nazis rolled in to Poland in 1939, he was on the negative list.  To Auschwitz in 1941.  When one prisoner was led off to be killed and pled not to be because he was the father of a family, Father Kolbe stepped forward and took his place.
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Wikipedia:  Saint Maximilian Maria Kolbe OFM Conv. was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar, who volunteered to die in place of a stranger in the German death camp of Auschwitz, located in German-occupied Poland during World War II.  . . . .  Kolbe was canonized on 10 October 1982 by Pope John Paul II, and declared a Martyr of charity. He is the patron saint of drug addicts, political prisoners, families, journalists, prisoners, and the pro-life movement. John Paul II declared him "The Patron Saint of Our Difficult Century"
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 1, Block B:  Matthew Hennessey, associate op-ed editor at The Wall Street Journal; in re:  A dearth of Roman Catholic priests in the United States; priests coming to this country from around the world, esp Africa, SE Asia, South America.
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 1, Block C:  Victor Davis Hanson, Hoover, in re: What do the Never-Trumpers want?    They have no problem with Mattis or Gorsuch, but are upset because he represents a kind of culture that’s unfamiliar to them.  . . .  “Called Never-Trumpers because Trump never calls on them for advice.”  . . .  So far, Trump has deep-sixed over 700 problematic regulations.  . . . 
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 1, Block D: Larry Kudlow, in re:  Tax policy. Cohn and Mnuchin.  Want to get concrete legislation on House floor by October then send it over to the
Senate.  Three Easy Pieces. Not deficit-neutral but . . .
 
Hour Two
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 2, Block A:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; author: Soviet Fates and Lost Alternatives: From Stalinism to the New Cold War, & The Victims Return: Survivors of the Gulag after Stalin;  in re:   Thirty years ago, Gorbachev began perestroika.  . . . .
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 2, Block B:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord  (2 of 4)
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 2, Block C:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; (3 of 4)
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 2, Block D:  Stephen F. Cohen, NYU & Princeton professor Emeritus; American Committee for East-West Accord; (4 of 4)
 
Hour Three
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 3, Block A:  John Bolton, AEI, in re: US national security. Again, the genesis of much of the problem in Afghanistan is Pakistan. 
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 3, Block B:  Jed Babbin, American Spectator, in re: Afghanistan redux.
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 3, Block C:  Captain Jerry Hendrix, USN (ret) and CNAS, in re:   Repeated problems with US Naval craft in East and Southeast Asia.  What‘s happening?  . . .  Damage control.  Operational pause worldwide.  We urgently need a bare minimum of 355 ships in the Navy. Training and maintenance are suffering gravely.
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 3, Block D:  John Tamny, Center for Economic Freedom, and RealClearPolitics, in re:  Living standards of the average American can't have diminished in view of the massive success of Amazon, WalMart, Home Depot, and the ocean of F-150 pick-ups on the road.  People get super-filthy rich by turning yesterday’s luxuries into today’s common products.  . . . Nike:  Phil Knight said his firm’s first decades were filled with the fear that each day would be the company’s last (shortage of liquidity).
 
Hour Four
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 4, Block A:  Sidney Blumenthal, Wrestline with Angels: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809 – 1849   (Part V)
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 4, Block B:  Sidney Blumenthal, Wrestline with Angels: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809 – 1849   (Part V)
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 4, Block C:  Ian Toll, Conquering Tide (Part VI)
Tuesday  25 July 2017 / Hour 4, Block D:  Ian Toll, Conquering Tide (Part VI)