Would like to welcome you to the special panel echoes of the past, featuring my colleagues. Its quite wonderful to be here with everyone since he has been with us for years and years at the university of south carolina. For the next 75 minutes we will share with you secret white house tips we will look to explore the dynamics there and but also to relate them to contemporary development to see what kind of questions they prompt us to ask about contemporary dynamics about the history they contain, about parallels to todays events, about the practice of democracy itself just a word about the recordings. We were established in 1998. Our goal there were the only institution is to analyze and transcribed the secret president ial tapes that president s made from 1943 1973 thats from Franklin Roosevelt to Richard Nixon we do it outside as well because so much of our work these days but we publish our work through the university of the virginia press. It is electronic imprint the president s r
Tonight because with his topic, the bomb, because it brought back memories for me. Back when i was a high school, i was a debater. One of the years the topic was about Nuclear Weapons, and we also read herman khans unthermal nuclear war. It was a big deal at the time. And so now to go back and listen to what has happened to Nuclear Weapons from truman to trump is, is really, really remarkable. Our author grew up in the midwest in kansas, went to Oberlin College thinking he was going to be a lut major lit major, but watergate changed him to political science. And then he went on to graduate school at mit, and it was International Relations and Nuclear Strategy. Then he moved to washington as a defense policy adviser for the house of representatives. But, you know, government work being what it is, he decided that wasnt for him. So after a couple of years he left and wrote his really widelyacclaimed book the wizards of armageddon an inside history of Nuclear Strategy. He then spent time,
American policy on nuclear war. Good evening. Im tony clark from the carter president ial library. Im really glad that you all are here tonight. I was excited to get our author tonight because with his topic, the bomb, because it brought back memories for me. Back when i was a high school, i was a debater. One of the years the topic was about Nuclear Weapons, and we also read herman khans unthermal nuclear war. It was a big deal at the time. And so now to go back and listen to what has happened to Nuclear Weapons from truman to trump is, is really, really remarkable. Our author grew up in the midwest in kansas, went to Oberlin College thinking he was going to be a lut major lit major, but watergate changed him to political science. And then he went on to graduate school at mit, and it was International Relations and Nuclear Strategy. Then he moved to washington as a defense policy adviser for the house of representatives. But, you know, government work being what it is, he decided that
Beginning bolten left the white house ask you strong upon and leaving many people gassing what the National Security process in the Oval Office Comes down to these days to discuss that im now joined by matt asked larry sells started professor of Public Policy at the university of maryland professor dessler its a privilege for me to talk to thank you very much for your time. Its a privilege to be with you thank you for inviting me now about the daycare to go you published a very influential book on the history of president s National Security advisers as i was reading it it occurred to me that in this capacity john bolton was truly one of a kind if you were writing that book today with you warrant a separate chapter. I suppose we would have a separate chapter on all or all 3 are now 4 of the people of the time trump has chosen to be a National Security advisor bolton would get the most emphasis i think i think hes probably the most colorful of all right absolutely and also the man who c
Of course the president chooses president s dont necessarily read our books or even if they do they dont follow our recommendations but on the other hand when the ball tonight was a point of it sound jitters around the world many thought that this white house would be the most hawkish average and we know that mr bolton did push for getting more mass killer so to say on iran i mean used to eleanors korea god knows what other country the fact that trump was able to filter and resists hes persisted advise isnt dot to the president s credit he passed the bolton task did it here yeah i suppose it was i mean he recognized that both and was not was getting him in trouble and wasnt always procuring him the support that he needed but i mean the president did choose him both in. Appointment sent tremors around washington to at least among those who are out of government and many of those and government because it has a long track record of being very strong polemical very savvy a man who underst