Foreign policy series. Mead, senior fellow at hudson institute. It is my pleasure to be joined by antony blinken, the chief Foreign Policy advisor for the biden for President Campaign and former deputy secretary of state and deputy of National Secretary National Security adviser. During his career, mr. Antony Blinken Antony blinken mr. Antony blinken has held a number of distinguished government positions. He was National Security adviser to Vice President biden during the administration but also served as the senate staff director for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 2002 to 2008 and the National Security Council Staff during the Clinton Administration. During his time at the state department mr. Blinken played an instrument to world the diplomatic effort to counter ice is pretty worked on the global refugee crisis and rebalance of asia. L role in the dipl efforts to counter and he rebounds asia tony its good to see u thank yo for joining us today think its going to be an i
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This 90 minute talk. I want to thank you all for ignoring the weather reports and coming out on this not as cold as it has been monday afternoon for the first session of the winterspring term of the history seminar. Todays seminar features melvyn leffler, wholl be speaking on his just published collection of essays, safeguarding Democratic Capitalism us Foreign Policy and National Security, 19202015. I am from the George Washington University History department. I am the cochair of the seminar along with my colleague of the Wilson Center. Is onngstanding cochair a welldeserved sabbatical from publictorys center of policy and will be engaged in research and writing in germany for the next few months. As many of you as many of you know, this is a collaborative of the George Washington university and the Wilson Center. If you have not seen our lineup, please pick up a flyer outside of this room. It carries us through september although we go into late made toe in or you can go online the
I thought, wouldnt it be a great idea if i could persuade a new york publisher to pay me a certain amount of money to go back and get drunk 23 times every year . And it worked. Unfortunately, i had to ask a write a book at the end of it. I want to read you a quick quote. I dont want this to be too much of a slideshow. I was fortunate in finding some remarkable images given to me by the last living hero of my book, Phillip Jackson, who is 89 years old today. You will see some images of him later. A quicko just read you section, a short section. I hate reading from books because people always fall asleep. This is really the theme of the book. It is by a very distinguished and brave french man. There were many. We lived in shadows as soldiers of the night, but our lives were not dark. There were arrests, torture, and death for so many of our friends and comrades, and tragedy awaited all of us just around the corner. We did not live in or with tragedy. We were exhilarated by the challenge
Into your hands, father of mercys, we commend our brother mario. In the sure and certain hope that together with all who have died in christ he will rise with him on the last day. Merciful lord, turn toward us and listen to our prayers. Open the gates of paradise to your servant and help us who remain to comfort one another with assurances of faith until we all meet in christ and are with you and with our brother mario forever. We ask this through christ our lord. Amen. In peace let us take our brother to his place of rest. Thanks be to god. Our closing hymn is 611. Joyful, joyful, we adore thee hearts unfold like flowers before you opening up to the sun above melt the clouds of sun and sadness, drive the dark of doubt away giver of immortal gladness, fill us with the light of day all your works with joy surround you earth and heaven reflect your rays stars and angles sing around you, center of unbroken praise field and forest dale and mountain flowering meadow, flashing sea chanting a