Republicans, and independents are on the screen. Were asking College Students to call a special line. At can reach us online cspanwj and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. For now, lets take a look at the less than warm welcome thomas received welcome de vos received. I am grateful to speak with for those of you disagreed with the invitation for me to be here. One of the hallmarks of Higher Education and of democracy is the ability to converse with and learn from those with whom we disagree. This behavior continues your degrees will be mailed to you. Choose which way you want to go. Graduates, would you please be seated . Graduates, would you please be seated . As i said, i am very grateful for the opportunity to be with you today. De vos. D its not just look at thehas a speakers who have been deemed too controversial to speak, including Charles Murray of the American Enterprise institute, a scholar set to speak at middlebury college. Yiannoupolis, one invited to speak at cal state los a
Pants . Her bracelet caught on the garage door and it is going up. And storms are still popping up as we head into memorial day weekend. Your news starts in 30 seconds. Black smoke and flames. Helicopter down in delaware. We just found out who was insi inside. Severe weather strikes. Thunder, even hail and of course a lot of rain and its not going away for your Holiday Weekend. Now fox 29 news at ten. First at ten do you need to change your Holiday Weekend plans . Drenching showers on the radar tonight. Not just rain take look at center city. Philadelphia a couple of hours ago that of course is hail, droves of people will head right there tomorrow. The jersey shore which is get be rain right now. The question on a lot of minds on this thursday night, when will things dry out . Thanks for joining us. Im iain page. Im lucy noland a lot of folks already have the car pack, the cooler filled for the weekend barbeques and all of that. So is it going to be wash out because that doesnt look go
For the development of the protection of prez press freedom and professional development and we have evolved into other areas over time holding news makers to account and also doing wonderful programs for the development of future journalists including charitable endeavors. So weve been at that since 1908. Which is why i have the phone out and i apologize for not well, tonight were pleased to host a lively discussion if it is not down right depressings given the nature of the book in some respects. Raven is a thoroughly researched book, and for years garrett who writes for politico and other publications is really dug into this to the point where nbc gave you a script option. [laughter] so forget about you have to, keep the mic. Im just mindings camera. We are on cspan. And interestingly enough, that it was an abc show thats popular right now survivor though abc gets the book. Competition is fair and square, right . The book raven rock delves into a schpeel on the continuity of governm
Gorbachev was a very different soviet leader than president putin as a russian leader, one dedicated to reforms, democratizing the soviet union, removing forces of soviet foreign policy. I believe the praise for gorbachev was fully deserved. I think today any praise for putin is probably not deserved. Host in researching this book, what did you learn about yourself . Guest that is a good question. I learned i had a pretty good memory, although i did have to rely on wikipedia and google to make sure i got my anecdotes in the right order. You remember things but you dont maneuver quite what year it was. Dont remember quite what year it was. Lanes a trip down memory and it was satisfying to dredge up these anecdotes and stories and conclusions. Certainly, looking back, felt it was five decades well spent. Host a quick call from james from denton, texas. You get the last word with james dobbins. Good morning. Caller good morning. Mr. Dobbins, i think you are correct america was looking for
American diplomats do and how American Foreign policy is and to have some insight at a personal level to what has occurred through presidencies and 13 secretaries of state. The most i ask who was effective and least effective secretary of state . Guest some of it is just opportunity. Jim baker was the most consequential secretary of state because he took office at a time of historic change and molded and channeled that change in very benign directions. Other secretaries of state have operated under much more difficult circumstances, in the depths of the cold war where there was difficulty to get things done. There were some secretaries of state who found themselves outmaneuvered politically. Host let me share a couple of excerpts with our audience. James dobbins will be with us for the next 30 minutes. Obama was the most intellectual and probably the smartest but also the most controlling. Guest obviously, that is a caricature and slight exaggeration. But if you think about the way wen