Im jim byron president ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation. 50 years ago tomorrow, after four years of delegate on and off again negotiations and military actions by the Nixon Administration, secretary of state William Rogers signed the paris peace accords for the United States. What was not on and off again and was in fact very consistent, was the approach that president nixon took in leading his administrations attempts to leverage great power rivalries and competition for americas benefit. The overriding objective of which was to end the war in vietnam. To discuss nixons grand strategy for ending the war in vietnam, im pleased to welcome pier assal, the Dwight E Stanford chair in American Foreign relations at San Diego State university. Neil ferguson milbank family senior fellow at the hoover institution. Rana mitter professor of the history and politics of modern China University of oxford. My colleague mark up grove, president and ceo of the lbj foundation in austin, texas, will m
Good morning, and thank you for the opportunity to be here. Were going to talk about the university of Maryland University college, which is a public Online University, that is designed here we go. Designed from the ground up to provide affordable, accessible, quality and careerrelevant education for adult learners and especially for military learners. And to understand who we are, i need to tell you the story of umuc. We were established in 1947, at the university of maryland, as a department that was charged with serving adult students, particularly those who were returning g is from world war ii. In 1949, we became the First University to send faculty overseas to teach our trips stationed in germany. And this was the beginning of umucs global reach. By 1956, we had established divisions to deliver Higher Education in both europe and asia, and in 1963, we became the first u. S. University to send faculty into a war zone in vietnam. In 1970, we became an independent, fully accredited
Historian mark moyar chronicles the rise of special Operation Forces in his book, pozen a full. You watching book tv in prime time on cspan2. Since he left the white house, president george w. Bush has taken up painting. Creating portraits of military veterans. They have been published in the book, portraits of courage. President bush talked about why he decided to paint these veterans and his time in office. Good evening. I have the honor of being the executive director. I thank you for joining us. In honor of our men and women who defend our freedom around the world in uniform please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated. Now that we have said the pledges that are fake, like it if all of those who are with the armed forces here today whether active, or retired as well as their familie
Leading our discussion is daniel, policy analyst they focuses on transatlantic Security Issues he provides expert analysis and radio and television appearances. Prior to joining us at heritage and the Thatcher Center he worked at a nonprofit washington, d. C. As a policy analyst and on the Advisory Board company has associate and associate director. [applause] thank you everybody. Were honored today to be joined by mark moyar whose book was describe a National Review as a valuable and highly readable overview of special operations history. For anyone who seeks to know more about these glamorous and little understood forces. Marcus director here at washington d. C. He served as professor at the marine corps university. His advise the Senior Leadership of several military commands as well. He holds a ba from harvard and a phd from cambridge. His or another works including aid for elites, building partner nations and i believe i read that in grad school. Strategic failure how drone warfar
Please silence your mobile devices. We will post todays program on the homepage for everyones future reference. Leading our discussion is daniel, policy analyst they focuses on transatlantic Security Issues he provides expert analysis and radio and television appearances. Prior to joining us at heritage and the Thatcher Center he worked at a nonprofit washington, d. C. As a policy analyst and on the Advisory Board company has associate and associate director. [applause] thank you everybody. Were honored today to be joined by mark moyar whose book was describe a National Review as a valuable and highly readable overview of special operations history. For anyone who seeks to know more about these glamorous and little understood forces. Marcus director here at washington d. C. He served as professor at the marine corps university. His advise the Senior Leadership of several military commands as well. He holds a ba from harvard and a phd from cambridge. His or another works including aid f