Good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for coming for this working with lunch council of Foreign Relations you all know mr. Ashford ash carter we will open up to all of you for questions so take notes and keep thinking of questions and i will come to you in a bit. I do want to tell you that during the qanda portion later on and i will remind you of this at the time, this will be on the record. Good to see you. Thank you, margaret. I appreciate that. The last time i interviewed you we were on some kind of vessel off estonia and you are carrying out a military buildup in response to russia. It was part of after a quartercentury we didnt have a war plan. Its kind of interesting to reflect on all the plans when i started that i worked on conventional and nuclear then we didnt do that anymore for about 25 years and then it became apparent to me whatever six years or so ago that we needed to plan. Thats when we began positioning the forces in different ways in europe, but the particular reason
Rob, you are coming up here, too. We are arranging ourselves. Welcome to the Wilson Center. I am jane harman, the the prest and ceo. I am a recovering politician. Happy to be a recovering politician but its not an easy job. Heading this place is an absolute joy because this place leverages Woodrow Wilson two presence, two passions which were scholarship and policy. Thats the intersection of the book were going to talk about today. And its just my pleasure to introduce this and introduce a friend of many of hours, rocket man. Ill explain why called him rocket man. And that is because theres a movie, has anyone seen the movie, the elton john movie . Dan and i sat next to each other recently at the elton john movie, which is great, recommend it. And dance at a written this book and it would want to come to the wilson sent and talk about the book. Rocket man is here and he will talk about this book. He asked as i think emily knows, you got that cheat sheet writer, you all memorized it with
reporter: the wilson center was chartered by congress more than 50 years ago to in their words strengthen the relation between the world of learning and the world of public affairs. one of the ways to fulfill that mission is through the history of public policy which strives to make public the primary source record of 20th and 21st-century history from repositories around the world and based on those to facilitate scholarship, education and debate. we mobilize, ship in public policy in other ways through podcasts like international history declassified, blogs like my own stubborn things and today s program is in line with that purpose. our guest today, andrew card. andrew card served with the national endowment to democracy, interim chief executive officer, president of franklin pierce university, acting dean of the bush school of public service at texas a and m and senior government role under three us presidents including white house chief of staff to george w. bush, and
and the world of public affairs. one of the ways to fulfill that mission is through the history of public policy which strives to make public the primary source record of 20th and 21st-century history from repositories around the world and based on those to facilitate scholarship, education and debate. we mobilize, ship in public policy in other ways through podcasts like international history declassified, blogs like my own stubborn things and today s program is in line with that purpose. our guest today, andrew card. andrew card served with the national endowment to democracy, interim chief executive officer, president of franklin pierce university, acting dean of the bush school of public service at texas a and m and senior government role under three us presidents including white house chief of staff to george w. bush, and secretary to george h w bush. we have executive director of fiscal institute of international affairs. he has been it distinguished professor on diplom
events from the fall of the soviet union to the gulf war. reporter: the wilson center was chartered by congress more than 50 years ago to in their words strengthen the relation between the world of learning and the world of public affairs. one of the ways to fulfill that mission is through the history of public policy which strives to make public the primary source record of 20th and 21st-century history from repositories around the world and based on those to facilitate scholarship, education and debate. we mobilize, ship in public policy in other ways through podcasts like international history declassified, blogs like my own stubborn things and today s program is in line with that purpose. our guest today, andrew card. andrew card served with the national endowment to democracy, interim chief executive officer, president of franklin pierce university, acting dean of the bush school of public service at texas a and m and senior government role under three us presidents in