[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good evening. Thank you for coming. Im liz huettel, Deputy Director of event at politics prose book store. We are were in at the throes of another dynamic season of events. Please check out our webs for more information weapon also host event at our book store and we offer wide range of cultural tripsliterary classes and book clubs, please stop by and visit us. But tonight we have the honor of welcoming leon panetta. Mr. Panetta has a long and storied career as a public servant. In 1976, he was elected u. S. Congress, where he represented californias 16th 16th Congressional District for 16 years. He acted as president clintons director or the United States office of management and budget and then as his chief of staff from 1994 to 1997. He founded the leann and Sylvia Panetta institute for Public Policy, and in 2009, he became the director of the Central Intelligence agency. From 2011 to 2013 he was the 23rd United States secretary of
Guest well, im waiting for the popes position to open up. [laughter] i enjoy being back home in carmel valley, as i said, i have a walnut ranch out there and its nice to be home working with a different set of nuts. Im enjoying that. Host almost all of your Life Experiences and your positions are enviable but you have done one thing im not sure everyone here would be jealous of. You have been roommates with senator schumer. Guest yeah, we were all kind of bachelors back here and our wives were back in the district, and we came back to washington and we were all kind of living separately, and George Miller had a house up on the hill, and George Miller eventually we were all friends and would good out to din. He said why dont we all kind of Stay Together . So we all moved into George Millers house and it was four congressmen, myself, George Miller, of course, our already, chuck schumer, and a guy named marty russo from illinois, and chuck sumer and i were on the bottom floor and he slept
Weekend, on cspan 3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Next on the president s how do make decisions, whether it is firing cabinet officials or going to war . We will hear from advisers to president s Ronald Reagan, bill clinton, george w. Bush, and barack obama. Former secretary of defense leon panetta moderated the discussion. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much, and i welcome all of you to the final forum of our lecture series this year. I think, as you all know, we are looking at 100 years since world war i, 2014 to 1914, an awful lot of history. The changes that have been made, we have looked at war and peace and the changes in that arena. We have looked at the role of government, and we have also looked at the issue of freedom versus security. To take ae are going look at the president of the United States and how president s make decisions, and residents, frankly, influence all of those other areas that we just talked about. The president of t
Depicting the 1943 battle that destroyed that town of san the film was composed almost entirely of reenacted scenes. Before showing the film, we spoke with a film historian. The book is entitled, five came back. Joining us from new york is mark harris. As we look at some of the leading directors from this time period including john houston. Pietro was shot by john houston in italy and was intended to be commissioned by frank capra of the successful u. S. Effort to free a small, ancient italian village. Capra told houston to go to italy in search of a town that could provide images of things like joyful and grateful villagers emerging from their rounds ofces with cheese and loaves of bread to greet the victorious americans. Houston got to italy and found the wrightstown the right to wn but the battle was already over. There were no villagers insight. The town was still lined with german traps. , with the full knowledge and enthusiastic cooperation of the army, to restage the battle. The
Tonight, we are going to take a look at the president of the United States and how president s make decisions, and residents, frankly, influence all of those other areas that we just talked about. The president of the United States has today assumed incredible responsibilities and facing incredible pressures in that position. Since 1914, we have had 17 president s of the United States, all of whom, you know, will have various places in history. We have gone from wilson to harding, truman to eisenhower and nixon, kennedy to carter and reagan, johnson to clinton, bush, and obama. What can we learn from all of those president s . And how has the presidency changed in terms of the responsibilities that have to be confronted . We will look at the challenges of the modern presidency through the eyes of four top aides, all of whom who have served president s of the United States, and we are looking at president s that each of these individuals served. What was their greatest strength, and wha