We went to montreal to meet in the twentys and despite the chilly weather we couldnt have wished for a while mobile come. On the writer has been living in canada for over 40 years now how much you claim to draw on her own experiences and memories. You were 10 when your family fled saigon. Member anything what happened in saigon was how was your life that when i left i was old enough to remember and then all that not all the enough to understand. Everything so when you sit down to write you can you have the freedom to reinvent you know the stories between the little dots that you have of the memories but this saw visit images and as children i think you have a very tunnel vision of things right and so i remember the smell of the kitchen the room and how they would dress have they moved around and then i also have images of those tanks coming into town we only feel the fear of everybody and the worries and and on the day that we fled of course my parents couldnt tell us that we were flee
Good afternoon and welcome. Happy fat tuesday, thank you for spending your tuesday with us. Im the executive director of the institute for human academy, joseph capizzi. We have been here for three years. Ross has been an important member of the institute, our media fellow helps coordinate these events, the more contentious events i have been involved in. The release of the latest book, ross is one of the most important commentators, the opinion page, has written a few books at this point, they became something. I will engage ross in conversation about the book. It is an interesting book, not the sort of typical conservative harangue on the way things are but takes a nice tack to explore what is going on in our culture. Once he and i exhausted each other, we open up to the rest of you. If you have a question please raise your hand and they will approach you, dont be alarmed, make your question and ross will engage you. I implore you to phrase a question. More time ross has to respond b
About leadership and character and the lessons he learned from studying commanders through history. Its the subject of his book sailing to north. [applause] thank you latest denman. Please be seated. It is my distinct honor tonight to introduce a very special guest and a good friend. This is the second of our jack bergman distinguished leadership series. The first member of that series was general james mattis who was here two months ago. Jackma brennan was Lieutenant Colonel in the marine corps, return with president nixon from sacrament, retired from the marines ratherre than leave his side so we thought we would name it for jack, this series and we had a distinguished profession of arms here for my people the jackman continues to serve. Many of youod so are here. If youre a veteran or a of activeduty would you stand and allow us to thank you . [applause] our guest graduated from the United States Naval Academy 1976 a 37 year career and some extraordinary stations along the way inclu
Provider. [applause] thank you, ladies and gentlemen, meese be seated. It is my distinct honor to introduce a special guest and a good friend, this is the second of our jack brennan distinguished Leadership Series. The first member of that series was general james mattis who was here two months. Jack brennan was the first president of president nixon, Lieutenant Colonel in the marine corps, retired from the marines rather than leave nixons side and when he had a gift of the library we thought we would name the series for and we had a distinguished we remind people that jack brennan served and continued to serve and could glad youre here. I youre a veteran or member of active duty. Would you stand and allow to us thank you. [applause] now, our guest is admiral james stavridis. From the United States Naval Academy in 1976. He went on a 37 year career and some extraordinary duty stations along the way, including, as the combat Southern Command from 2006 to 2009, and of course, nato allied
Our guest is admiral james brady graduated from the United States Naval Academy 1976. Thirtyseven year career and some extraordinary stations along the way. Including as a matter of Southern Command from 2006 2009. Nato alloy supreme commander. He earned his phd as well a master of arts. He subsequently went on to lead a team after his retirement from the navy. He was the author of two books. He is also an executive of the Carlyle Group which americans know as the preeminent venture capitalists of the United States printed is one of the most treasured guesstimate radio show. And leading a virtual campaign, to have him on the board of elise one and maybe three tech companies. So they Google Facebook and amazon have their perspective from their discussions on the National Security from the United States from somebody knowledgeable in all of these things bernie fo. [applause]. So for 37 years. [applause]. Id also like to point out that he spent 11 of those years, out of sight of land. It