My name is paul, im a reporter with the washington post, and it is my pleasure to introduce this distinguished panel. We have one of americas greatest Television Journalists in conversation with two of americas most formidable intellectual, dr. S amy gutmann and jonathan moreno. They will be discussing their book, everybody wants to go to heaven but nobody wants to die. [laughter] subtitle, bioethics and the transformation of health care in america. Let me introduce this distinguished panel. Andrea mitchell, no introduction, Everybody Knows Andrea Mitchell. [applause] to come press the very extensive resume down, veteran chief Foreign Affairs correspondent, correspondent for nbc news, also host of Andrea Mitchell reports on msnbc, noon. Check local listings. [laughter] joined nbc in 1978 and has covered seven president ial administrations. Every president ial campaign since 1980. Youve seen her on nightly news, today show, meet the press, shes been everywhere. Conflicts in haiti, bosni
International pressure and deploys his military to fight the fires. Well have the latest on what some are calling ecocide. Is it the first death caused by vaping . Well look at the case of an adult whose illness matches the recent outbreak of severe lung disease and those who use ecigarettes. And in our continuing series who we are, we go back two years to Hurricane Harvey and meet the 26yearold and the young volunteers who are rebuilding homes and restoring lives. But first we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. Seeing a lot of the leaders who are friends of mine for the most part. Wouldnt say its 100 of the case, but forthe most part. President trump arrives for the g7 sum milt. Apparently not a fan of these gettogethers. President trump is not one to back down and the leaders here are not Strong Enough to challenge him. It started out as a stand your ground trial, a jury found Michael Drejka guilty of manslaughter. This man is a vigilante.
That its not okay to just use people because they are dying. Some of the rationale for some of the plutonium experiments and radiation experiments and other injections was that these people are dying and we might as well get some information from them. Being ill and hospitalized did not justify that. You still have to respect them as people. So what are key lessons from the radiation experiments. Ive only scratched the surface. I hope you will go and read more about them, in arlene wilsons book, Jonathan Moreno has a wonderful book on the history of the experiments, these human irradiation experiment books, a lot more detail. One of the lessons is the medicine and the quest for knowledge has to be looked at it the in a specific political, economic, social context. It cant be understood if you take it out of the context. These radiations experiments started in the context of a world war and ended in the context of a cold war which turned quite hot on occasion, which was characterized by
Kagans article and in the new republic of hes a wellknown intellectual. Maybe thats why he got it in the new republic. Other people can write a counter view. If were unhappy with the exceptional view of triumphalism, thats what we historians should try to do without getting caught in our own ideological biases, i would suggest. Im going to make half the panel feel old. I was in high school, i was a freshman when the wall fell. Sorry. At least you werent there when the wall went up. I dont know where my parents were. Let me play the role of splitter you suggested there was a contrast. You can say on the whop happened those that tried to stand against the crowds with violence, then sort of succeeded, but those who acceded to the crowd, kind of their regions went away. Where do we put romania in that . I think the roamanians like to be different. I think we have to put them in a third category because we should raoul that ceausescu did not have the opportunity to act as he wanted. He was
Stag field. The university of chicago is an interesting institution. I had the opportunity to spend some time there. The stadium fell into disrepair, and here you see a chart which shows the joseph regin stein library. Imagine this if you can. They tore down their football stadium to build a library. True story. They also left the big ten in 1946. And it left room for another member to join the big ten to make up the full complement of ten. Of course, in 1949, Michigan State university was admitted to the big ten. So the university of chicago left, Michigan State came in. They had a president who was known to observe, when i feel like exercising, i lie down until the feeling goes away. So they were not big into the intracollegiate sports scene. However, in 1942, they still were in the big ten and stag field still existed. It had squash courts under the stadium. And it was on those squash courts that an event transpired that truly changed the course of history. December 2nd, 1942. They