This also happened during the vice presidency. When congress was needed, the Vice President would go back to where he lived. Especially during the summer, they would usually lead in the spring and come back in the fall. It was a seasonal thing. Although he did overdo it a little bit during this time. It was not unusual for the president to be away. These were very trying and tent tempestuous years for a brand new nation. Can you give us a sense of the history, what was happening during the adams administration, key policy issues . The major problems were international. You had a political tiffs. You had the creation of Political Parties. We had problems with the french, the british. American Political Parties were divided, profrench, pro british. One of the problems john had was keeping the country out of war. He was successful. I think that is probably the thing that he should be most recognized for during the period. I also find it ironic that he is one of president who kept us out o
What our citizens ought to expect, and they get it. I have been given a two minute warning so i think this will have to be the last. My name is chris taylor. Thank you so much for your service to our nation. Is it time for the National Security act of 2014 . Is it time for us to truly sit down and talk about a National Security budget, true National Security budget . And with that have helped or hindered you in your previous jobs as dni . Bei think you might just running the risk of opening a ofe can of forms can worms if you try to come up with new National Security act legislation, at least from an intelligence perspective i would have thought you might advocate new legislation if you felt the intelligence reform simply wasnt working. And my assessment is that it is working. It is not perfect. Ideal. Ot i would not have even advocated it myself eight or 10 years ago. We took over the Community Management staff functions of and the law presented us with that outcome. I think to reopen
Lot of talk, even more tension from congressional leaders pushing for the g 20 summit to be moved which was not going to happen or for the u. S. To consider withdrawal from the olympics, which are to take place in russia next year. The early reaction to this announcement has been positive. He had a comment from Chuck Schumer saying the president made the right decision. In the the press past that putin has been behaving like a schoolyard bully. Host moving ahead, what happens next . It will be interesting to see what russia reacts. Thereve been questions about the move with snowden and with others in standing up to the United States or being perceived to stand up to the United States lays well domestically in russia. The question will be whether officials will think they have gone as far as they can go or to up the antent and want to be seen as standing their ground. The response from moscow will be interesting. Host the headline, amid snowden tension, obama cancels the newton meeting
One of the things the Libya Working Group has been thinking about or other means, what would that advice be . I would go back to the remarks i made at the very beginning. Requires a Real Investment shifting away from working project to project and finding a way to couple when we are doing these projects, spending a lot of time mentoring and providing Technical Support to build the institution. I would say two things. The first is to take it easy on libya. Everybody, considering the history of libya and the circumstances, i do think they are holding it together quite well. As news comes out of everything that is occurring, it really is to be expected. It is an institutional void. Very limited education on how moxie works, a very unempowered people in the sense that there are ways for someone else to come in and build the country or create the change. In the process of empowering citizens, creating armiestions, creating and a police force, creating a healthcare system, an education totem
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