Photo: #A pro-government demonstrator holds aloft a picture of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at Tehran University, on June 19, 2009 in Tehran, Iran.
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How should the U.S. respond to public uprisings abroad?

Broadcast: Midday, 06/23/2009, 12:40 p.m.

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The Obama administration is reacting carefully to the unrest in Iran. Historian Nick Hayes discusses how the U.S. has responded to other public uprisings in countries including Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Cuba and China.

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  • Nick Hayes: Professor of history and University Chair in Critical Thinking at St. John's University in Collegeville, Minn.

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