Just a couple of quickckan announcements, the next adventure at the club will be the first thursday. The next event the first thursday october 5, and that will be the Farewell Party to the chairwoman who she and her husband moved to washington, d. C. Her husband, david who is a noted economist is the undersecretary of the treasuryne for International Monetary affairs said hes been confirmed as the undersecretary of the treasury. B he apparently is going to be here that night so it is a great opportunity for us to celebrateo them and wish them all the best to keep up a good connection in washington. The first thursday october 5 will be two weeks or so so it will be a great event. Please make sure you come back for that and i want to put in a plug its very nice for us to come here and talk and complain about the city is not going in the right direction. G but now is the time for us to be doing something about it and the time to get involved in campaigns. Whether you want to get involved
Can i get everybodys attention please westmark all right. Welcome to the met club, thank you for coming out on this rainy evening and theres a lot of scrap and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were delighted, im not doing the introduction yet but were delighted to have vic martin here tonight, vic, welcome to the club. Were also glad to have our friends from cspan here so thats pretty cool. Thanks to the guys at cspan. Just a couple of quick announcements, our next event here at the club will be first thursday. He loves them too. Our next event is first thursday, october 5 and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman and l malthus who, she and her husband moved to washington, her husband david was a noted economist is part of the, easy undersecretary of the treasury or International Monetary affairs been confirmed as undersecretary so they moved, and he apparently is going to be here that night so i think its a great opportunity for us to celebrate them and
But it said for trump thats independence from responsibility to play a central role in affairs. Might create global chaos, especially in europe. It said china sees the change in u. S. Leadership as an opportunity to advance its interests in asia. It noted this may raise tensions between the two countries. The report added the secondlargest risk for 2017 is china overreacting to external challenges. As president xi jinping tries to tighten his grip on power ra head of the communist Party Congress later this year hes likely to respond forcefully to Foreign Policy changes. North korea came in ninth on the list. The paper says the country is closer to mastering miniature warheads and intercontinental with stick missiles that could strike the u. S. West coast. The report suggests this year will be the most politically volatile in the postwar period. Nhk has learned the president elect is considering appointing a top member of his Transition Team to be the ambassador to japan, replacing caro
Changes that have been made. They also talk about the cia, department of defense, and the white house during the Nixon Administration. It has been closely guarded and in great demand since they were created during the kennedy administration. There were lots of individuals in the chain that made this possible, but i want to publicly joe during his time as an archivist. He truly embodied the slogan, releasing all we can, protecting what we must. Thanks, joe, for making that happen. [applause] with an advance copy of todays release, i had an opportunity to did in and go through the history through the lens of the daily brief. I immediately went to five marks of 1970, the first marine my firstinto nam, and day in the country. Not that i expected to see my name prominently announced in the president ial daily brief, but i was curious about what was going on. Related to vietnam, and the principal developments of that , the middle east policy, which troops are coming back from egypt, and enti
African countries would be far better advised to focus on ways to fix the attractiveness of their own domestic economies, including tax systems, than to wait for the world to develop a new taxation system.