May or may not be possible. And it is certainly possible to base our attempt to have peace with the iranian people on the basis of war against its regime, but that thought process has not been entered into. That is the kind of thing im talking about. This is an extraordinarily thoughtful exploration of some very difficult some 0 the basic questions of our time of war and peace by a very thoughtful expert and analyst. This is his book, to make and keep peace. Available outside. I believe for 20. And so we encourage you all of you to buy at least one copy, if not two. And then i know that angelo would be happy to sign it for you. I think well be doing the signing outside. So, ladies and gentlemen, please join me in thanking angelo codevilla. [applause] [inaudible conversations] up next, afterwards with guest host of the Washington Bureau chief of the sunday indianapolis. This week, kwasi kwarteng, war is gold the relationship of money to war and the interconnection between presentday fre
Part made his reputation on this and his participation in ensuring a smooth transition for president fords move into the white house, we at have the library know from our experiences that researchers ,com,com ma scholars, Civil Servants and curious citizens will find ways to learn from his collection that we cannot really imagine today. The continuing interest in technology, its free flow with the subject of a book that we reviewed yesterday in the wall street journal. This particular collection, the whitehead papers, gives us all gathered here today much pride. Under the leadership of librarian of congress j. H. Billington and with great assistance from chief of the Manuscript Division and his extraordinary staff, allen koltai tom studs and janice ruse, dr. Whitehead, toms widow has developed a web site containing digitized copies of much of the collection. Knowing that there are jams her to be discovered by future generations, she has explored the last and most effective ways to orga
Good evening. Im Chris Matthews in washington. Let me start tonight with this. I think were looking at a new barack obama. You know the expression let reagan be reagan. I think were seeing barack obama be barack obama. An in your face challenge to the right wing. Hes putting in a guy who knows the lessons of vietnam and iraq and putting him out front, making him his point man as he goes into the war of hawkish republicans who count the months between wars as an unwanted timeout. Who like nothing more than the next war to fight. Meet barack obama two. Hes going to run the way he believes to do it. I like it. I think theres one guy out there by the way ironically rooting for obama. Its the guy who got used by the hawks, saw his place ruined by their lies. His name is george w. Bush. And hes sitting down there in texas watching the same old predictable crowd of war hawks trying good their number one more time. Only this time theres someone in the white house wise to their game. Joining me
But it was a great labor of love to learn more about them. People often ask me, how did you pick these hundred people . One of the great one of the things the was the most fun about the book was reading about these hundred people. I recently analyst to a 250 people. I contacted friends and others that did not know out of the blue from historians, journalists, like our first, and ask them for their recommendations of people. And then made a point of trying to identify people, some of the more famous and many of whom were not well known. There are three kinds of people in the book and the three categories of people. One group of them are organizers and activists, people like eugene debs and the socialist party, the early 1900s. People like alice paul, the great suffrage leader it was probably more responsible than anyone else for women getting the right to vote and a leader of the Womens Suffrage Movement in the early 1900s. She was also an advocate of civil disobedience. She and others