General and the first hispanic. He spent five years as the Largest Law Firm and has authored more than 80 Supreme Court briefs with oral arguments including nine before the u. S. Supreme court. He taught Supreme Court litigation as an adjunct professor and prior to that comd associate deputy general of the department of justice and domestic policy adviser of the 2008 was cheney campaign. He graduated with honors from Princeton University and high honors from Harvard Law School and work for chief Justice William rehnquist on the u. S. Supreme court. Please join me in welcoming senator cruz. [applause] thank you very much. Thank you ever one for coming out this morning. Its great to be with so many good friends at heritage. Heritage is such a jewel in this country such a font of ideas and creative thinking and energy, energy that i believe will change the direction of this country. Its also particularly fitting that we are here today and in just a few months we will be celebrating the 30
Porch. I especially liked president reagans description of how one of his most famous appointees u. N. Ambassador gene curt patrick once explained to the rest of the world what it meant to have a conservative in charge of foreign policy. First he talked about the Less Government approach towards terrorism. Quote no nation friend or foe ally or adversary should be surprised by the events of last week. He said of the reason the deliberate his actions make clear his determination to protect american lives and the world from terrorism. Then he singled out in ambassador kirkpatrick and even at the start of the Administration People like Jeane Kirkpatrick were offering pretty broad answers the rings will be different. How will the Record Administration change American Foreign policy she was asked in 1981 at the united nations. She answered correctly. She said well, we have taken down our kick me sign him and someone said well does this mean that if the United States kicks, they will kickback
Been apprehended before they went on a murderous spree. Lynch has banned on what she calls antimuslim rhetoric, is already producing its Chilling Effect and it is preventing americans are taking basic steps to protect ourselves. Lets take off the blinders. It is time to say that these attacks are not isolated incidents. Not they are operating as an ideological pack. The thing that unites them is adherence toal islamic separatism, that the world must submit to their world of islam, or die. Is present ine our country. Reported, itrector is active in each one of our 50 states. Once we have identified the enemy, with we must do everything in our power to defeat them. America and the world has grown more dangerous as president obama has receded from the world stage. Every day goes by, the United States seems more weaker and a more marginal actor. Increasingly dismissed, increasingly viewed by the world , our president is a laughingstock. Our third goal must be to restore americas leadership
Every stillness every day will make movement more tolerable. For more information on bob tvs recent visit to Santa Barbara and the many other destinations on tower cities tour go to cspan. Org citiestour. Now a panel on the life and career of recent lid retired librarian of congress, james billington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Please take your seats. Humbled to be next to any understanding is were live on cspan, so behave yourselves. Welcome to valentines day a bit early. Im jane harmon, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center and i cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enough to put Jim Billington in charge. [applause] we have no Cannon Institute no wilson quarterly, two projects at the heart of what we do. 0 who knows how many friends and how much wisdom would we would have missed out on. Jim played a special role in my own education, my russian education. We crossed paths while i was in moscow on a congressional delegat
After words programs on our web site, booktv. Org. And now a panel on the life and career of recentlyretired librarian of Congress James billington. [inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Please take your seats. My understanding is were live on cspan, so behave yourselves. Inform. [laughter] welcome to valentines day a bit early. Im jane harman, the president and ceo of the Wilson Center, and i cant and we cant imagine what the Wilson Center would look like today if nobody had been smart enough to put Jim Billington in charge. [applause] wed have no kennon institute, no wilson quarterly, two projects at the heart of what we do. Who knows how many friends, how much wisdom we would have missed out on. Jim played a special role in my own education, my russian education. We crossed paths while i was in moscow on a congressional delegation, and he took us all on a tour of the creme lip. Kremlin. Priceless. Jim, your command of russia, its history and its culture shows up everyone here. Y