75 minutes, a kind of meeting of two cultures. One culture is represented by the people on this stage, who are scholars associate the with the Miller Center here at the university of virginia and whose studie of the presidency is broad, longterm in perspective, balanced, and of course expressed in words in the written word. The other culture is represented in this room in one sense by the presence of pat oliphant, so please, greet pat oliphant with a [ applause ] but even nmore so by the work o pat oliphant which youll see displayed on this screen. The culture that he represents is not sort of broad gauged and long range by highly specific, daily perspective over the course of more than 60 years as a cartoonist, producing more than 10,000 individual cartoons five days a week for the denver post for several years, the washington star for several years. And along the way pat ol fant became the first to work independently of any newspaper. Thats how popular his work was, and it was syndic
Papers and how that changed news Media Coverage of National Security. Well hear from several washington journalists and bob woodward whose reporting on the watergate breakin helped lead to the resignation of president nixon. Good morning. Delighted to welcome you here and welcome you back those who were with us last evening with my conversation with daniel else burg. To our symposium to the legacies of the pentagon papers 46 years. Daniel will be with us again today and will be in the awed yns and im sure making his presence known as we go on. He is the person who made it possible for us to be here. I do want to mention that we are live on cspan this morning and we appreciate that very much and it will be shown again on cspan 3 and will be rebroadcast at a later date or dates as well. My only role right now is to interviews our moderator, who is a veteran of National Security coverage and reporting on abc and on cspan. Im sorry on cnn. Seen one, seen them all. Wont do what im tempted t
When swanson, the secretary, found the dummy account she was floored. This is rita, after all. She immediately brought it to the attention of the mayor, who wasted no time in calling the fbi. Six months later they were ready and one morning in april 2012 rita called into the Mayors Office where the fbi was waiting for her. Rita confessed. After all she was caught redhanded. There was nothing much she could do. And fully cooperated with the fbi. This is not the mayor was so upset by now when asked what his thoughts were on the episode was he said, turned out Rita Cromwell didnt give a shit about this town. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. Mike jacobs, its a pleasure to get a chance to talk to you here at the carter center. I am also welcome the audience thats come out tonight to listen to our conversation. Mike jacobs is the author of panic at the pump the Energy Crisis and the transformation of american politicness the 1970s. Mike is a teaches history and Pu
Third or fourth book . Something like that. You wrote a book i was interested in because were going to be talking about conservatives and liberals. One of them is you were the coauthor of conservatives in power, the reagan years, 1981 to 1989. Interesting. Were going to talk a bit about conservative politics and liberal politics for that matter. Lets start with this, if we can. Okay. You correct me. You have a thesis for this book, and ill let you describe it obviously, but essentially what you argue in this book is that the two Energy Crises of the 70s, 73, 79, essentially were part of and major factor in the transformation of american politics and, among other things, made americans realize that perhaps government could not take care of them the way we had assumed for a long time, and thus paving the way for a conservative revolution. Fair enough . Fair enough. Very good job. Thank you. Thank you for having me here. That is what i discovered in writing this, and its really it became
Got started off we started off bad. But this time and the last time these bombs were dropping, these smart bombs that 8 to 10 million a day, why cant iraq pay for that . Do you know what iraq is paying for and what its not for . G its not clear. They are buying u. S. Systems. Late theyve been planning to buy a lot of u. S. Equipment. That got slowed down at the end with the transition in power and there. Ent of late, though, youre seeing a themf the weapons sales to start to increase again or announcements of them increase. To theyre expected increase. And theyll be paying for that with mostly their own money. When Congress Returns next they adjourn and bring the gavel down on the 113th congress, what do they need to address when it comes to the pentagonsing budget . The pentagon would love congress to strike a major them to approve, you know, and get rid of sequestration. They neediately, what is they need an appropriations bill for 2015. Operating on are continuing resolution, which