Assumed the role as president of the United States. A. J. Baime looks at his book the accidental president. A. J. Baime is an awardwinning journalist, public speaker and occasional onscreen personality in addition to the accidental president , the subject of tonights lecture, fdr, detroit, and an epic quest to arm an america at war and go like hell, ford, ferrari and their battle for speed at glory and lemans. Both won the ken purdy award as best piece of writing for the year. A longtime regular contributor to the wall street journal, and articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science and mens journal. A. J. Has been a featured speaker at numerous writer festivals and events and has appeared on Numerous National tv stations, including cnbc, msnbc and in various documentary films and tv shows. A significant amount of research at the Truman Library, an archive, 15 million photographs there. Hes very complimentary of the Truman Library. Please look at the comments. We
As best piece of writing of the year. A. J. Is a longtime regular contributor to the wall street journal and his articles also have appeared in the New York Times, Popular Science and mens journal. He has been a speaker at numerous writer festivals and events and appeared on Numerous National tv stations including cnbc, msnbc, and various documentary films and tv shows. Now my couple of comments. This book was the result of a significant amount of research at the Truman Library. We have an archive. Weve got 15 million documents and photographs there. A cracker jakarr kieck archivalh team. He is very complimentary of the Truman Library. If you get the book please read the comments. We love all the credit and praise we can get. We are grateful to a. J. For doing that. I really liked the dedication that he put into this book and for those of us in the truman business and those of us who have photographs of portraits of harry truman in our offices kind of resonates and he dedicated this bo
Topic was Nuclear Weapons and we all read it was a big deal at the time. And to Nuclear Weapons from truman to trump and then went to Overland College and watergate changed him and then went on to graduate school at mit with nuclear strategy. And the policy advisor for the house of representatives on the left and wrote he wrote his widely acclaimed book wizards of armageddon. Listed with the boston globe for 20 years and by the end of 24 2002 we started to write stories he wrote for previous books and im very excited to have fred kaplan in his book the bomb please join me to welcome him. [applause] the wizards of armageddon the end of Nuclear Deterrence i did they get right anymore about nuclear war the cold war was over and nobody thought much about Nuclear Weapons until a couple years ago. And so might not have thought of it at all. But on august 8th the President Trump said that if north korea keeps making threatening noises and launching the sole test like it has never seen before.
Winston lord talks about the Nixon Administrations Foreign Policy approach. He is the author of kissinger on kissinger reflections on diplomacy, grand strategy, and leadership. Mr. Lord describes president nixons relationship with his secretary of state Henry Kissinger and how it was instrumental in developing Foreign Policy strategies. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Nixonith the richard foundation. Before we introduce our distinguished speaker this evening, i wanted to mention a couple of special guest. Distinguished speakers daughter here and her husband. , the wifetsy hewitt of newly elected hugh hewitt. Our distinguished speaker was to dr. Kissinger as dr. Kissinger was to nixon. He was with dr. Kissinger during the peace accords in 1973. He was with president nixon in moscow during his first president ial trip there. He was there for kissingers shuttles between arabs and israelis. He was a key act your and president nixons historic trip to china he was a key actor in presiden
Admiral carl schultz, u. S. Coast guard. Very good to have you here. Lieutenant general jeffrey rockwell, good to have you with us. General norman lewis, don of joint forces staff college. General carl robinson, air force, done of the Dwight D Eisenhower school. Rear admiral larry jackson, director for center of joint strategic logistics. Rear admiral Michael Brown is with us this evening. Susan eisenhower, we cannot forget miss Priscilla Roberts and ambassador walter stadler. I am sure there are many of you i have not mentioned. It is a pleasure to have you with us. As you know, the National Defense university is the worlds premier institute for studies in National Defense and International Security strategy. At the National Defense university foundation, we are focused on two things. Ensuring we train and educate our Security Leaders to prevent conflict when possible and wi n decisively when necessary. Tonights event is bringing together the foremost thought leaders in National Secur