Im jim byron president ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation. 50 years ago tomorrow, after four years of delegate on and off again negotiations and military actions by the Nixon Administration, secretary of state William Rogers signed the paris peace accords for the United States. What was not on and off again and was in fact very consistent, was the approach that president nixon took in leading his administrations attempts to leverage great power rivalries and competition for americas benefit. The overriding objective of which was to end the war in vietnam. To discuss nixons grand strategy for ending the war in vietnam, im pleased to welcome pier assal, the Dwight E Stanford chair in American Foreign relations at San Diego State university. Neil ferguson milbank family senior fellow at the hoover institution. Rana mitter professor of the history and politics of modern China University of oxford. My colleague mark up grove, president and ceo of the lbj foundation in austin, texas, will m
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Backers say it is necessary to protect consumers. Opponents say it is too broad and could limit competition. This portion of the subCommittee Hearing is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a re cess for the committee at the committee on Digital Assets Financial Technology will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. This hearing is entitled bureaucratic overreach or Consumer Protection. Examining the latest action to restrict competition in the payments. Without objection all members will have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials for inclusion in the record. I want to recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing bureaucratic overreach or Consumer Protection examining the cfpb latest action to restrict competition and payments in my view is critical. It will talk about this large participants in the genera
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized to declare a re cess for the committee at anytime. Entitled bureaucratic overreach for Consumer Protection. Examining the cfpbs latest action to restrict composition in the payments. Without objection all members have five legislative days to submit extraneous materials for inclusion in the record. I want to recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. Todays hearing, bureaucratic overreach or Consumer Protection, examining the cfpbs latest action to restrict competition in payments in my view is critical because its going to talk about this large participants in the general use of Digital Consumer payment applications market. This is the sixth lpr that the cfpb has initiated. And putting aside the egregiously short Comment Period which frustrates both members of this committee, the deeply flawed cost benefit analysis which are both have become hallmarks of th
Sold in millions of copies on tapes and records, sounded in cult films. Ilya filippov will continue. Today, on peredelkins birthday, on the centenary day, may 9, everything is surprisingly expectedly modest, almost like during the life of bulat shavlovich, almost. Poems are heard, a guitar sounds, they drink tea, people come here to the litfondovskaya dacha to visit the poet. I dont believe in god. Fate, i pray to the beautiful highest. Of course, akudzhava was repeatedly asked why many people like his songs so much. Bulatshalovich answered, they say, social request, poems are about yourself, quite personal, but answering spiritual questions, which the stage did not do. And the accompanying accompaniment turned out to be even more intelligible; in the end, as in khutsyevs film ilyachs outpost, the personal became the anthem of the generation. Ill still fall on that one, damn it. That this is a brilliant person, yes, that this is an amazing poet, that this is a great artist, but he is a