Bush administration and later jared cohen set the precedent due to the deaths of their predecessors. Enjoy book tv now and over the weekend on cspan2. Starting out on book tv World Affairs Institute Distinguished fellow joshua project discusses the views of socialism. Thanks to jeff and charles for the hospitality. And as alluded to, this is quite an august group including im afraid a number of people who know as much about the subject asi do. Im going to do my best to leave plenty of time for giveandtake around thetable. The book, socialism is in the airright now. The book is first of all a history and im going to quickly set the history and then spend some minutes on whats happening today and then we will have a backandforth or around the table. So the term socialism was coined in the 1820s and 30s by the followers of a small group of thinkers, british and french who were not out to overthrow governments but had ideas of a Better Society of sharing and also had the quite good idea th
Lettie for organizing this event. I want to thank my agent, gail for being here, you have probably already seen one of the 10,500,000 Mike Bloomberg ads, the tagline is mike gets it done, no, gail gets a ton. So, thank you for being here. What an admission also, another great book that you have to re, my friend, Melissa Rogers who is a visiting scholar here we Work Together for 20 years. Her book, religion in public life and faith with the American Public life which has a nice double meaning is a great book to read. And i cannot resist honoring my entire doctor Mark Sheppard who came here today. I honor him because he is an awesome dr. Because he is a great sports fan, kids play sports together but he was actually the dr. To about half of the people in my part of bookings and there is enormous morning in this building that you decided to retire but also so many other friends here come i want to thank you all for coming. But, this is one of the coolest events brookings has ever had. And
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Voters in 14 states, American Samoa and americans abroad will head to the polls in this election cycles super tuesday. Among those holding their primaries on tuesday are two of the nations biggest prizes, california and texas. [applause] paul, youve got something. We have texans in the cheap seats . They should be all the way in the front right here. Approximately onethird of all delegates are up for grabs tomorrow. This morning we have an opportunity or from some of americas most wellknown and respected political authorities who are going to help us make sense of a rapidly changing political environment. Please welcome attorney political commentator and recovering politician [applause] no stranger to the aipac states, clinton strategist, paul [applause] one of the republican parties leading ad makers, brad todd. [applause] and last but certainly not least, threetime republican president ial Campaign Communications director, alice stewart. [applause] thank you all for joining us. Befor
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