He received prizes for history, debate and translation of new test meant greek. New testament greek. Books withten many clarity of expression. Audience,mbers of the you may have read his book the special providence american foreignpolicy and how it changed the world. The hamiltonian, jeffersonian , this way ofn thinking about foreignpolicy remains a touchstone for how we think about foreignpolicy today. He will talk about president s a differentocus on group. Franklin was about, Harry S Truman and Ronald Reagan. Roosevelt, Harry S Truman and Ronald Reagan. He will provide a lot of insight into our current situation. After he speaks, we will take questions from the audience and questions on our twitter site area had twitter site. The twitter handle is it rolls off the tongue. Program for military and diplomatic history. Please join me and waltzing and welcoming professor Walter Russell read Walter Russell mead. [applause] prof. Mead thank you for that introduction and the opportunity to
Heritage. Org web se. Those who ll be joining us on a future occasion on cspan become tv. Inhouse we ask that you see that our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. For those watching online, we remind them that theyre welcome to send questions for comments at any time, simply emailing speaker at heritage. Org and we will post the program for the heritage home page for your future reference. Leading our discussion is ted broman, Senior Research fellows. He looks the angloamerican relationship, the u. S. Leadership role in the world. Before join hisas yale associate director or International Security studies and also a lecturer in history and International Affairs for yales master of arts program. He is now also an adjunct professor of strategic studies at Johns Hopkins university. School of advanced international studies. Please join me in welcoming ted vroman. Thank you. Normally win we cold events in february i thank those who attend because of the atortious weather becaus
Studies at yale university. His books include cold war at 30,000 feet, the angloamerican fight for supremacy. He received a pretty significant award he won a prize from the American Historical Association process and a work in strategic history. He wrote consequences of the global cold war published by Stanford University press in two nay and the china diary of george h. W. Bush, making of the global president published by princeton University Press in 2008. The whole reform with one of our manufacturers with the Strategic Studies Institute and 20 times and he wrote to follow the berlin while the revolutionary legacy of 1989, published by oxford University Press in 2009. Obviously a mission that the bush school, but it we know hes doing well asset me. I would now like to suggest are going to have a reintroduction to dr. Jeff said are you coming up on stage. Before he brings his earmarks were going to see a video and this is a pretty significant video because its video in president bush
He was once one of the most powerful politicians in the country. He joins a long list of city and state officials here no wlo have come through these doors behind me facing criminal charges. Sources now tell nbc news that hastert was paying a man to keep silent about sexual misconduct. His attorney thomas green. Represents clients in Major National scandals from water gate to the ann contra. Who is individual a. Even though denny has been accused of doing horrific things, it may be hard for the prosecution to make its case. Out of sight since he was indwighted two weeks a ago, Dennis Hastert appeared in court this afternoon for his arraignment. Hastert left the federal court in chicago just moments ago having entered a plea of not guilty to federal charges that he tried to hide illegal Bank Withdrawals and then lied to the fine about it all to make hush money payments to cover up past sexual misconduct. Law enforcement officials have confirmed that the past misconduct was sexual in nat
Prevent. And irwran that will stop at nothing to in secret develop a nuclear weapon. Many military analysts say a strike on iran, even a very good one delays that option. Leave one additional thought. Wharf whatever you thought of libyan intervention. It set off a whole bunch events it africa. That was predictable. Let me give you view of iran to operation in libya. This is what happens when you give up your wmd program. So my last question for you on this evening, after this remarkable career of 39 years in the military, listening in on all these bad actors and conversations for all your years in intelligence, the National Security agency, being at the cia and seeing everything from the trains blown up in madrid to the towers come down when you were at nsa in new york, are you an optimist or a pessimist when it comes to human nature . I am, in another venue, described reading the president s daily preefs and all the stuff that is not ready for prime time every morning, six or seven da