20 years ago, yesterday day, president George W Bush addressed the nation after the Space Shuttle columbia disaster. And its in a moment like following other moments in his presidency, the horrors of 911, the global war on terror, the invasion of iraq, but also high points in the presidency. President bush was trying to bring the together in a moment of grief, but also to try to provide a vision of hope and common. And its in moments like this that the extraordinary resources, the Miller Center and these scholars that you have with you here today provide for us. We have, as you all know, because we released the George W Bush oral history in the fall of 2019, right before pandemic Russell Riley and Barbara Perry with a number of colleagues have brought the oral history of this presidency. And today were here to celebrate one of the first fruits of that project. That is what we call basic research. And from that basic, our scholars take and produce books of scholarship where. They learn
And its in a moment like following other moments in his presidency, the horrors of 911, the global war on terror, the invasion of iraq, but also high points in the presidency. President bush was trying to bring the together in a moment of grief, but also to try to provide a vision of hope and common. And its in moments like this that the extraordinary resources, the Miller Center and these scholars that you have with you here today provide for us. We have, as you all know, because we released the George W Bush oral history in the fall of 2019, right before pandemic Russell Riley and Barbara Perry with a number of colleagues have brought the oral history of this presidency. And today were here to celebrate one of the first fruits of that project. That is what we call basic research. And from that basic, our scholars take and produce books of scholarship where. They learn new lessons from that administration by having talked to the senior most officials from the administration. And is on
Receipts. Call to order, this hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. This is an unusual hearing for us, and it is exciting, from the back room it sounded like it was a reception, everyone was so excited to see their friends and to reconnect. That was happening on a social level. We will reconnect on the professional level. One thing that we know, for each of you, is you have had an incredible career in congress, incredible careers in National Security, incredible careers on this committee. We do not want to lose your resident expertise. And we believe that you work on a bipartisan basis, and certainly, you are about getting this committee working on a bipartisan basis. So we want to turn to you today to get your advice, on issues that you see that you think we need to be focused on. On issues that you think this committee, as you have seen the work we have been doing, should either continue or modify, in the way we are undertaking them. So i want first to intr
Receipts. Call to order, this hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on intelligence. This is an unusual hearing for us, and it is exciting, from the back room it sounded like it was a reception, everyone was so excited to see their friends and to reconnect. That was happening on a social level. We will reconnect on the professional level. One thing that we know, for each of you, is you have had an incredible career in congress, incredible careers in National Security, incredible careers on this committee. We do not want to lose your resident expertise. And we believe that you work on a bipartisan basis, and certainly, you are about getting this committee working on a bipartisan basis. So we want to turn to you today to get your advice, on issues that you see that you think we need to be focused on. On issues that you think this committee, as you have seen the work we have been doing, should either continue or modify, in the way we are undertaking them. So i want first to intr
Making of modern america which is a chronicle of the first gilded age, the one that happened just before the one that we are in today. Enough about me. I would like to introduce our gilded and gifted panelists. To my immediate left is are the coauthors of the big with the big myth which delves deeper into the way the free market credo has worked its way into our markets and policy as a sort of religious credo and the damage that has done to our way of life and politics and society. Shes the professor of the history of science at harvard and also taught at uc san diego and has written for the Los Angeles Times among many other newspapers. We valued her at the Los Angeles Times as a very important source on issues of Climate Policy and others. Eric is also a historian of science and has been published widely and serves as the historian of at the jet Propulsion Laboratory in pasadena. Next to them, bill cohen. His book is power failure, the rise and fall of an American Icon and as he puts