Working journalists who are club members. If you hear applause in our audience, i note that members of the general public are attending. So its not necessarily evidence of a lack of journalism objectivity. I would like to welcome our cspan and public radio audiences. Follow the action on twitter. After our speech concludes, we will have a question and answer period. I will ask as many questions as time permits. Its time to introduce our head table guests. Stand briefly as your name is anounlsed. John doeman from your right. Reporter for wnew. Jill lawrence, syndicated columnist. Eleanor clift, washington correspondent. James r. Webb. Mark shields. Hong lee webb, wife of the speaker. Jerry zeremski, chairman of the npc Speakers Committee and former president of the National Press club. Angela king, White House Correspondent for Bloomberg News and former president of the National Press club. Amy webb. Rachel smoker. John failes, known throughout the country at sergeant shaft. Mike deigel
This is obviously very substantively important topic under what conditions will the public support military force, and its important we understand and its important we push each other really hard to try and make the work as good as it can. The halflife for any social research is probably fairly short anyway. So its worth discussing it sort of with as much friendly enga engagement as we can. So its hard to understate the importance of John Muellers work in shaping this whole Research Agenda and what people look at. And the importance of casualties in shaping Public Opinion about war. I think sadly sort of inside the beltway policy community has misinterpreted some of his work. Largely the public will immediately oppose war once the body bags start coming home. Im not exactly sure thats what his work se, but that became the conventional view and oftentimes was attached to him. There are several real difficulties in studying how casualties affect Public Opinion. The main way that we study
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