His legacy, promoting democracy, human rights and character driven leadership in the work we do in washington, d. C. , arizona and around the world. We are committed to serving causes greater than ourselves. Our vision is a world that is free, safe, and just for all people. Im pleased to join you all here and to introduce the democracy dialogue of the Mccain Institute. This series is partially funded by the knight foundation, and ashley, the Vice President for learning and impact. Thank you, ashley and thank you to the knight foundation. Our four prior conversations have focused on how that incline of local journalism is endangering our democracy. The implications of physicals and verbal threats against election officials. How to protect our electoral system and infrastructure against cyberattack. And how to counter hate in america today. You can find all of these on youtube, and this one will be on youtube after tonight. For our faith, we will talk about political courage and why it i
And the world of public affairs. One of the ways to fulfill that mission is through the history of Public Policy which strives to make public the primary source record of 20th and 21stcentury history from repositories around the world and based on those to facilitate scholarship, education and debate. We mobilize, ship in Public Policy in other ways through podcasts Like International history declassified, blogs like my own stubborn things and todays program is in line with that purpose. Our guest today, andrew card. Andrew card served with the National Endowment to democracy, interim chief executive officer, president of Franklin Pierce university, acting dean of the bush school of Public Service at texas a and m and senior Government Role under three us president s including white house chief of staff to george w. Bush, and secretary to George H W Bush. We have executive director of Fiscal Institute of international affairs. He has been it distinguished professor on diplomacy at geor
Was not what woodson in tended. And so, we obviously owe the peopleof our higher to and so we obviously of the who d those who are descended from those people who worked for 246 years for nothing. We owed them something for that, but we owe them the story of themselves. We have been asked to expect that people can survive in good, sound psychological health, on ashes and obliterated history. When i was a child in richmond, virginia, weiss to have this phrase that we used all the time. From here to timbuktu. But, nobody knew what timbucktoo was. Nobody knew the meaning of the word. Didnt know where it was and didnt even know it was a place. Timbucktoo of course was a crossroads of commerce but it was also a site the site of one of the worlds first universities of san kora which was built before the blackmores ilk the First University in spain at sala make a and 7eleven a. D. And so still in timbuktu you have all of these manuscripts written between five a. D. And 15 a. D. , literature a
Unexpected contentment that is settled upon me like an ancient ceremonial robe, warm and splendid, mislead but valued all the more for its belated retrieval. Randall robinson, thank you for being with us. Guest thank you for having me. On this weeks newsmakers, dana rohrabacher. Hes chairman of the Foreign Affairs subcommittee on europe, eurasia, and emerging threats. We discussed a variety of Foreign Policy topics, including israeli and Israeli Palestinian peace talks. These makers is sunday on cspan at 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. We wrote this about a year and a half ago, its called 10 letters. Its letters that president obama reads and i went back and found 10 of them who had written to the president. It has been a pretty good read. When that is done, then we go on to act of congress and another guy at the Washington Post and back in the 1970s there was a big difference between then and now it is just that these guys have written. Collision 2012 is written and there was a similar wri
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