Welcome to our 35th annual Allstar Party. Please join me in welcoming a lady we love. Who is now appear ng a very supporting role in a major production back east. This is dutch reagan. And now, kindly join me in welcoming man who we greet as fred. A very special friend close to our hearts. Mr. Dutch reagan. Hello. Nancy and dutch, your host for the evening, 1983 variety club honoree, truly his broth brothers keeper, Frances Albert sinatra. You may be seated. Im delighted to be here with dutch and his bride. The first lady of the United States and might i add the first lady of geneva, too. And now, here are some wonderful people who will be entertaining you for the next hour. Youve already met marty and here are charleston heston, e dee gourmet and steve lawrence, of course. And emanuel lewis, the mightest little fella ive ever known in my life and my buddy, mr. Dean white. Mr. Burt reynolds. Mr. Vincent sculley, a giant in the baseball world. Mr. Ben vereen. And the variety club office
Good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. Im mike ohanlon, here to welcome you about a discussion with possible wartime scenarios with russia and or china. This panel has a lot of expertise on these subjects. Im going to briefly introduce folks in a minute and hand the baton, so to speak, over to my good friend and colleague jung pak, who will be our moderator. Shell pose questions to the panelists. Were talk amongst ourselves for the first half of this 90minute event then go to you. The panelists have all been kind enough, as well as jung as moderator, to allow me to use my new book the senkaku paradox as the spring board for this discussion, but only the spring board, and the conversation will range much more widely. But let me just say a brief word of introduction to the subject before introducing them. Just so you know, at least where our starting point is in this project and this conversation today. I think back to something that my good friend Lieutenant General John Whis
Steeped in revolutionary war history. Saratoga springs, i represent half of saratoga county. When you grow up in upstate new york, you truly grow up around our nations founding history. The battle of saratoga was one of the most important battles in the world because it turned the tides of the revolutionary war. For school kids that are growing up, the fact that they can learn about saratoga battlefield as part of their curriculum and actually visit the battlefield with their teachers and family it is so tremendously powerful. This district is very independent. If you look at many of our local elections and our federal elected officials, people go to the ballot box and vote for the individual who they think will be the strongest advocate for their communities and their region, so i think i reflect the viewpoints of the district, and i think i also reflect my generation. If you were to ask millennials and i am an older millennial yder that Demographic Group they are looking for new, inn
The conservative movement on the other, so this is a natural kind of looking at that area. Natural kind of outgrowth of her previous work looking at that area. Heather has watched maybe not watched every single one of 33 years of firing line episodes but pretty close. She is probably the reigning expert now on all things related to firing line. Please help me welcome Heather Hendershot to the podium. [applause] she is probably the reigning sother hendershot thanks much. It is really great to be here, particularly here at the Hoover Institution because hoover was so important to the research i did on the book. I was out at stanford where all the papers are, and the preserved all the episodes in the papers and transcripts, i really could not have done it without the Hoover Institution, so it is great to be here. The first thing that people ask me about this book is why did you write it . The short, quick answer in part is this guy. Book been working on the since 2011, and about a year an
To this Public Affairs program. We are extremely honored to have as our guest today, David Miliband. David is the president and ceo of the International Rescue committee. He oversees both agencies humanitarian relief operations and the Refugee Resettlement and Assistance Program in several american cities. I know that the name David Miliband resonates with most of our audience. But those that want to learn more about our guest, please take a moment and read what was handed out to you this morning. Today he will be discussing one of the biggest issues, refugees. In his recent book entitled rescue. It is he says, about chadwick while the refugee crisis may no longer be front page news, make no mistake, it is ongoing and global. While the followup from years of civil war top system list this is only part of the refugee issue. They are being afghanistan and somalia, and doris can be on here seeking shelter and wondering how they will survive. Swhile they have always been refugees, those wh