This is part of our sin tennuce activities. Im executive director of the john f. Kennedy library foundation. On behalf of all of my colleagues at the library, we are thrilled all of you are here. You are in for a special, special treat tonight. Before i talk about the book, a few other quick things first. First, to thank our sponsors for tonight and for the forum series, the bank of america, the lowell institute, media sponsors, the boston globe, xfinity and ber. In addition to tonight, on your chair is a brochure of different activities. As you know, a week from today is the actual centennial birthday for john f. Kennedy. We have a variety of things. We hope you come back to some or all of these as your schedule permits. We also want to welcome those that are watching this streaming or those on cspan. We appreciate their participation as well. After the presentation tonight, our authors have kindly agreed to sign books. If you dont have them, theyre also available in our gift shop for
I have to come up with a better thing. What is he going to do, talk about the budget . Debate abouteat obama, is a great or not . Thisll be a lot of fun. Personally speaking, i think obama is great at lots of things , like killing people with sky robots. He is amazing at that, the best ever. Spending money, he is like a god. Spending others peoples money, he is like mj in 1996. Untouchable. Im sorry. This is usually a more libertarian leaning event. Today i think we brought in some of the lefties. There they are, laughing. It has been years they had been suffering through trevor noah. Im sorry, im not taking shots. I am sure it is funny in south africa. I liked obama the candidate. He was pretty good. Remember that 22yearold handsome guy right out of college and it was all hope and change and yes we can. Now today it is president Morgan Freeman coming up. There has been another isis attack. It is not as fun. Addresssee his farewell , at the end he said, yes, we can again . It was the f
Was terrific, we are going to be more involved in nato, not less. We are going have more troops supporting our friends in europe against aggression by russia. There seems, the theme America First is not withdrawing from nato or the world but asking our partners to do more and they should. Dickerson the defense minister of estonia where you were in december and which feels some pressure from russia says russia has become more aggressive since the election. What is your sense of that . That is right. Russia has interfered in every democracy in their backyard. They are coming after the french and the germans. They tried to interfere in our election, even though they didnt change the outcome, they did interfere. They hacked into the Democratic National committee, podestas emails were leaked to wikileaks, they were there to hurt clinton, the bottom line is now to punish russia. Dickerson in the press conference President Trump was given all of the things russia has done recently to provoke
Was terrific, we are going to be more involved in nato, not less. We are going have more troops supporting our friends in europe against aggression by russia. There seems, the theme America First is not withdrawing from nato or the world but asking our partners to do more and they should. Dickerson the defense minister of estonia where you were in december and which feels some pressure from russia says russia has become more aggressive since the election. What is your sense of that . That is right. Russia has interfered in every democracy in their backyard. They are coming after the french and the germans. They tried to interfere in our election, even though they didnt change the outcome, they did interfere. They hacked into the Democratic National committee, podestas emails were leaked to wikileaks, they were there to hurt clinton, the bottom line is now to punish russia. Dickerson in the press conference President Trump was given all of the things russia has done recently to provoke
Was terrific, we are going to be more involved in nato, not less. We are going have more troops supporting our friends in europe against aggression by russia. There seems, the theme America First is not withdrawing from nato or the world but asking our partners to do more and they should. Dickerson the defense minister of estonia where you were in december and which feels some pressure from russia says russia has become more aggressive since the election. What is your sense of that . That is right. Russia has interfered in every democracy in their backyard. They are coming after the french and the germans. They tried to interfere in our election, even though they didnt change the outcome, they did interfere. They hacked into the Democratic National committee, podestas emails were leaked to wikileaks, they were there to hurt clinton, the bottom line is now to punish russia. Dickerson in the press conference President Trump was given all of the things russia has done recently to provoke