Apology. At todays rates if late feed had been amid that i would hey totaled more than 10,000. Booktv will continue to bring you new programs and publishing news. You can watch all of our past programs anytime at booktv. Org. Im bill burns, im at the president of the cash anything gee Carnegie Endowment for billion and im die lighted to welcome Rebecca Lissner and mira rapphooper and their become, an open world. Recovering diplomats like me are sometimes prone to understatement, but even i can see that it its a vast understatement to say that were living through a moment of profound upheaval on both the international and landscape. Domestic landscape. The post colored world war primacy is in Rearview Mirror and the road ahead is dimly lit and domestic preoccupation its easy to lose be and to leach from restoring our uniolaugh dominance to equally ill losery idea we can disenavailable from the rest thereof he world and focus only only ourselveses but rebecca and mira have done in this n
Ill hop of here and let everybody get started. Thank you so. All right. Well, good evening or hello, whatever time of day youre watching this. Ive got a brief power point im going to use to get into this book. Its based on academic study presented in a nonacademic manner. That was my job as a collaborator. I have been studying this science for a little over a decade and written an earlier book on it, as ill mention. So my job was to keep my co lab to keep it for a lay audience. Before i get into the book i discovered a very interesting study done by the democratic fund, their voter study group, that is actually an examination of attitudes in america of authoritarianism, and i will define authoritarianism for us. We could spend i could do a whole book on that subject alone. But i think most people have a pretty good idea what it is. Larry diamond at stanford shared this information with me and its fascinating. Americans are overwhelmingly love their quote democracy, but that overwhelmin
Committee. Secretary bunche outlines his priorities for the institution and efforts to reduce the maintenance backlog and comments on public, private partnerships is with sony and funding and the challenges for the National Latino museum. From earlier this month this is about 50 minutes. The committee on rules and administration will be called to order pretty good morning. I want to thank my colleagues for attending and before i can thank the secretary for bringing some of their great collection for us to look at but mr. Secretary, we are glad to have you and several people from your team here to back you up if you need it but im confident you will be able to be the man at that microphone they are. This is your First Official appearance before the Senate Rules Committee and we are grateful to have you with us. Secretary bunches appointment is historic in a number of ways in the first africanamerican secretary to lead the Smithsonian Institution as well as the first Museum Director who
Good afternoon, everybody well fed, i hope. Joining us at lunch today is phillip carter, senior fell explore director of military veterans and at the center for a new american security. His research focuses on issues that face veterans and military personnel, force structure and readiness issues. His most recent article, what america owes its veterans, is published in this Current Issue of Foreign Affairs magazine. Serving from 2005 to06 as an advicer to the state departments reconstruction team, mr. Carter returned home to an increasing involvement in veterans issues. As a civilian we has worked in the private sector as an attorney and business adviser, and is currently teaching as an ajunk professor of law at georgetown university. Today he is with us as a moderator and friend of our key note spec, flo groberg. Grown in paris, never a bad thing, and in 2001, naturalized american citizen, after which he became flo bow bobo go flo gw berg. He tackled major seth off the mans suicide ves
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