In government, chris served as a staffer on the House Foreign Affairs committee, under representative lee h. Hamilton as the Deputy Assistant secretary of state in the bureau of intelligence and research and as Deputy Director of the 9 11 commission. He was also the president of the 9 11 Public Discourse project, the commissions follow on Public Education organization. He served as a Senior Adviser to the iraq study group. Please welcome professor chris kojam. Its a real honor to be here tonight, and this is in the very best traditions of this school. A very erudite, accomplished policymakers into the academy, and so that both can benefit. And im deeply dedicated to this continuing interaction between scholarship and practice. So its a real honor tonight to introduce ambassador thomas pickering. He is a career ambassador. And that is the designation that very few ever receive. Only a few in a generation. And ambassador pickering really is a phenomenon. The most accomplished ambassador
Good afternoon. Thank you for coming i am ben teeeighteen, jr. His first child from his first wife and i am proud to be his namesake. Might first memory of my fathers of the dramatic side due 1951 was not quite three years old he threw me in the Swimming Pool at of the blue thinking you to give real wakeup of learning how to swim there were no foodies in those days and of course, i was thrashing around gasping for air after watching me he hopped into the pool and casualty scooped be up and abused by the entire scene. It was an act of tough love. I think. [laughter] it happened aboard the ocean liner as resale from york to paris review was embarking on a new career as the press attache at the American Embassy as correspondent for newsweek. Four years later by parents were divorced and my mother and i returned to u. S. Settling in boston. Decade back to washington as bureau chief for newsweek to join the post in 1965. He remarried and i began a routine of coming down to d. C. For visits
I was not saying that. My 12 minutes was confined to what happened when hill big is affirmed. One of the last slides i had up there was those states with hundreds of thousands of people who would lose their insurance on set dates and i had him joes slide saying heres the process states would have to go through. Then i made the point that it would not take days to fix that. It would minimally take months to fix that. If the Supreme Court would rule probably in june, they do this with big cases, and there are no state legislatures in session. The governor has to call them into session and convince them to do this which i think would be easier to do in pennsylvania and ohio and new jersey and states that cut medicaid because they know what they would have to do and then states like texas would probably be defoliant because that is the way they have acted so far so what you would have and what you are missing is the day this ruling came down and headlines in the new speakers, we have a cri
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