So rather than the formal academic papers that were having on most of the other panels, this one will be more informal recollections and reminiscence of what it was like working in the administration for the president himself, the atmosphere at the time. And each of our panelists will offer ten to 15 minutes of prefatory comments and then well turn it over to q a. For my fellow mishistorians in the room, this is the time to do the Expert Interview youve been wanting do. Introducing our three panelists first over on this end the man who needs no introduction i mean it lirt rally because i introduced him three hours ago, again ambassador kenned a he willman. I dont mind, go on. All right. For our purposes here, though, was served as one of president reagans ambassadors to the sun u. N. And then head of the Arms Control Disarmament Agency and also a troubleshooter in a number of other ways. I want to talk to but your role in putting some of the pieces together after irancontra. Then in th
Dying city, dined with sinatra, spent five years in a federally funded gated community, and lived to tell the tale. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to present mayor vincent buddy cianci. [applause] Vincent Cianci thank you very much, andrea. Thank you. Thank you all very much for coming. Andrea, you left an awful lot out of the introduction, ill tell you. Ive been introduced many different ways. Think about introductions, i remember being introduced one time, i used to be mayor and hen i stopped being mayor. Then i became mayor again. In 1990 i got reelected and ill never forget before the inauguration but after the election i was invited to go to a dinner i think at the biltmore hotel. A lot of people were there. Ill never forget walking in and the person at the podium was excited to see me there. And he got on the microphone and he said, oh, ladies and gentlemen, i want everyone to welcome the two timing mayor of the city of providence. Right . [laughter] Vincent Cianci
While we here in america think we discover and invent and improve faster than any of them. Unquote. I think maybe when he said that, lincoln recognized he was on thin ice. He said they may think this is arrogance but they cannot deny that russia has called on us. In other parts of asia, they scarily know that such things as steam boats and railroads exist. In anciently inhabited countries, the dust of ages, a real down right old fogyism, there he is again, seems to settle upon and smotherter intellectual energies of man. While neither appreciating them, lincoln like many 19th century nationalists pandered to his audience while talking about the virtues of the United States. At the expense of degrading other people, it was lincolns decision to convince his fellow countrymen that they would be next on the great stage of history. And it was a successful strategy to flatter voters into thinking about the ascend into National Prom negligence. But lincoln did put his money where his mouth wa
Into law by lincoln five years earlier and the only one in that original group founded in lincolns home state. Indeed one of the reasons i was drawn to come to illinois last year to take the job as law dean is the prospect that the university of illinois can build upon the legacy of, and become linked with lincoln in the way the university of virginia is associated with Thomas Jefferson. Who to my mind was not as great a president and not as great a person. This brings me to a fourth question, why bob woodward . That might be the easiest one of all. Many people consider the New York Times the countrys newspaper of record. But bob woodward of the rival Washington Post is americas reporter of record. He has been at the post for 45 years and is responsible for two of its Pulitzer Prizes for investigative coverage of water gate and also 9 11. But mr. Woodward is much more than a reporter. He has an inciteful and prolific historian of, among other things, americas president s. In this regar
[inaudible conversations] my name is Mark Harrison and its my pleasure to introduce Robert Service to you. Robert is going to tell us about his new book, the end of the cold war. The book will be published by Public Affairs and by great britain. He is among the worlds historians and rush and author of viagra please of lenin and trotsky. He discovered america in the year 2004. Ever since then he has been delving in the records held by the Hoover Institution. All of their research that Robert Service has done is done in the archives. He took part in the annual Hoover Institution totalitarian regimes directed by hoover fellow gregory. The scholarly audience presentations on the keynote events of the workshop program. Robert service will now address us on the end of the cold war. [applause] thank you very much mark for that very generous introduction. What i want to talk about today is the subject of my new book, which is about a war that never became a war. Its about the cold war rather t