Good morning and welcome to this Commonwealth Club online program. I am Gloria Duffey president and ceo of the Commonwealth Fund and was honored to serve as the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense in the 1990s. Peer are many issues today surrounding National Defense in our military and to the military be used to quell domestic unrest such as the recent protests and should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and contemplating resuming nuclear testing. Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and their statues be removed from our public places. To address these questions and many more today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretary of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. The bipartisan secretary of defense secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book exercise of power american failures, successes and a new path forw
Should the military be used for domestic unrest such as the recent protests . Should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and even contemplating resuming Nuclear Testing . Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and other statue be removed from our Public Places . To address these questions and many more, today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretaries of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. As a bipartisan secretary of defense, secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book, exercise of power americas failures, successes and a new path forward in the post cold war world. Doctor gates is an officer in the u. S. Air force and spent 27 years in the cia. He served as the cia director and became the first career officer in cia history to move from entrylevel employee to head the agency. Secretary gates served as a membe
Also, an update on congress a reliefo pass package. Also we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. Washington journal good morning. As monday, august 10, 2020. Election day and one week until the start of the democratic convention. It is crunch time until joe biden will announce who will join him on the democratic ticket. Will open our phone line to democrats only get your thoughts on who joe biden should pick as his running mate. Democrats in the eastern and central time zones can call in, 2027488000 democrats in the pacific timezone, 2027488001. You can also send us a text. Andse include your name where you are from. Also catch up with us on social media. cspanwj. Democrats only can start calling now. We hear from you about which woman should appear with joe biden on the democratic ticket this fall. Phone lines are on your screen. Cnn editor this from at large his final Vice President rankings, his top five on the most likely picks are. Numbe
The Commonwealth Club online program, i am gloria, president and ceo of the common club, i was honored to serve as a Deputy Assistant secretary of defense in the 1990s. There are many issues today surrounding National Defense in our military, should the military be used with domestic unrest such as the recent protest, should the u. S. Be terminating many of her arm controlled treaties and contemplating resuming the clear testing. Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and theres got to be removed from our Public Places . To address these questions and many more, today will have a unique conversation between two recent secretaries of defense, doctor robert gaetz and general james mattis. As a bipartisan secretary of defense secretary robert gaetz served under george w. Bush and barack obama, he is the author of a new book, exercise of power, american failures, successes and a new path forward in the postcold war world. Doctor gaetz was an o
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