Conferences that some of my professionals dont appreciate. I never plant questions. I know many do. The reason i dont plant them is that the answer then is contrived. No one will get away and i would like to have this question asked. The other thing is i also have a feeling that generally speaking, where the question is hard and strong and tough, it gets a better answer. Dont save me from the easy questions where someone is trying to help me. Then the listener says that one of his friends. Watch the entire Campaign Film at 10 00 a. M. Eastern on our weekly series. American history tv, only up next on American History tv, a recent Abraham Lincoln symposium. Sidney blumenthal, author of a selfmade man the political life of Abraham Lincoln 18091849. This took place at fords d. C. Andn washington, is about 40 minutes. [applause] our first speaker is a native of chicago. Earned a b. A. Degree in sociology and began his career in boston. He moved to washington, d. C. In 1985 and has been her
School. Named after the father of my former boss, madeline albright. Somebody who has experience across the world on some of the toughest issues from bosnia to north korea. Someone who worked very, very closely as well with Dick Holbrook and his most recent book is outpost life on the front lines of american diplomacy. Its really a terrific memoir. Chris kojm was in my rolodex back in the 1980s. If you dont know what that is, we can talk later on. He was for many years, 15, on the staff of the House Foreign Affairs committee under lee hamilton and then went onto be the chairman of the National Intelligence council for five years until 2014. And is now a professor at George Washington university. And the National Intelligence council, the nic for insiders publishes something called Global Trends every four years, the most recent one being 2035. As the chairman of the nic, that was something that chris was deeply involved in and well have a chance to talk about a bit. And to my far right
Challenges was the subject of an event at Indiana University school of global and international studies. This is 90 minutes. So were here today to talk about whether the obama approach, call it a doctrine, call it a policy, of scaling back of retrenchment and a repositioning is one that the next president ought to change and reconsider or maybe even deepen. And we have the Perfect Panel to engage in this conversation. To my right is jessica mathews. You have everybodys bio, so im just going to say a few highlights from my own personal experience which im very honored to say i have with each of my colleagues here. Jessica is the president of the Carnegie Endowment for international peace. She served in government as a columnist and been a driver on a wide range of Foreign Policy issues throughout her career. I encourage you to check out her writing in the new york review of books, it feels like its every week. I guess you did have one the last couple of weeks. The most recent of which a
Thank you, chris, and thank you all for being here today. Delighted you got off to such a good start for the mississippi book festival. To put our best foot forward, put on a court and tie, and governor barbour wore socks in the summer. Anyway, before i make the introductions of the panel, i see former governor william winner in the audience. Were so glad to have you. [applause] and i saw former governor ronny muss grove earlier but i dont know whether he is in here, but he is on the grounds, too. So were glad so many people have turned out. Let me just briefly introduce each member of the panel. The one thing that struck me ive read all of the books, and how its, again, reminder how small and swim hat and interconnected we are in this state because there are characters in these books that appear in more than one book. One member of the panel appears in more than one of the books and its a reminder again of how we really kind of all together in this state. But beginning on my far right
Prosecutors say a nebraska man who didnt get the promotion he wanted at Buena Vista University has been convicted of hacking without authorization into several of the schools computers and email accounts. 46yeaeaold david boyer pleaead guilty this week in u. S. District court in sioux city to unauthorized access to a protected computer. In a plea agreement, boyer admitted that in 2009 and 2010, he hacked computers at the storm lake school. Prosecutors say boyer was angry that he hadnt been promoted to become h hd of the Information Technology department. Boyer agreed to pay 100,000 in restitution. His sentencing date has not been set. A manhunt in two states is over after a dramatic shootout overnight. Authorities finally finding a fugitive whos been on the run for nearly a weeee nbcs Gabe Gutierrez is in burkesville, kentucky. Again this time on foot. The fbi and us marshals joined the search. A School District was shut down. For three days. Diane alexander its kinda weird to us to th