Good morning and welcome to this Commonwealth Club online program. I am Gloria Duffey president and ceo of the Commonwealth Fund and was honored to serve as the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense in the 1990s. Peer are many issues today surrounding National Defense in our military and to the military be used to quell domestic unrest such as the recent protests and should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and contemplating resuming nuclear testing. Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and their statues be removed from our public places. To address these questions and many more today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretary of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. The bipartisan secretary of defense secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book exercise of power american failures, successes and a new path forw
Should the military be used for domestic unrest such as the recent protests . Should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and even contemplating resuming Nuclear Testing . Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and other statue be removed from our Public Places . To address these questions and many more, today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretaries of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. As a bipartisan secretary of defense, secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book, exercise of power americas failures, successes and a new path forward in the post cold war world. Doctor gates is an officer in the u. S. Air force and spent 27 years in the cia. He served as the cia director and became the first career officer in cia history to move from entrylevel employee to head the agency. Secretary gates served as a membe
[inaudible conversations] welcome to the concluding day of the symposium on the future of Public Research universities. Before i introduce the panel, just remind you all as you may see, we are being filmed for cspan. When we get to the q a portion today, it is important to use the microphone and he will do better than i will. I should turn it up. Thank you for your interest. I would like to introduce the topic that we will focus on this morning. Then i will turn it over to a discussion with our panelists and get you involved. We are talking right now about Research Scholarships and the arts. At the public universities. In essence, what we are talking about, it is the faculty. The faculty and who they are, as well as the teacher faculty, including the graduate students. I would argue that we are in a time of huge challenge in the ability of public universities to recruit the best and retain the best and to sustain the kind of conditions that create outstanding scholarships, as well as t
The gentlemen. Gentleman. I have some questions about iran and nuclear policy. In the last press conference by president obama a something in this press conference which i thought was different from the past. All along in recent months he has been talking about a nuclear bomb or nuclear weapon, specifically mentioning that a something iran cannot get. In a press conference, he went beyond that and said nuclear capability. I wonder if this is the same position, or is this something new, changing course . The second thing is for the entire panel, ellen laipson, too. The red lines, basically encouraged by the israelis, those have been gone for some time. Now there is something emerging, and that is the year 2013. I see that as a new version of the deadline. Would you say significantly year everything should be settled with iran or we go to the next option . What you think of the casual use of the year as a deadline . Ok, thank you. I think all of these different shades of gray from total
And there is good reason to believe it will continue. My duty tonight is to report on the state of the union. The not of the state of the government but of our american community. Therefore, set forth responsibilities to form a more perfect union. The state of the union is strong. As we gather tonight, our nation is at war. Our economy is in recession, and the civilized world faces unprecedented danger is. Yet the state of our union has never been stronger. It is because of our people that our future is helpful hopeful. And the state of our union is strong. President obama delivers this years address with the Preview Program at 8 00 a. M. Eastern. Tuesday night on cspan, cspan radio, and cspan. Org. President obama awarded the medal of honor to Clinton Romesha. This is half an hour. Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States and mrs. Michelle obama, accompanied by medal of honor recipients staff sgt Clinton Romesha. [hail to the chief] lets pray. Eternal god, from whom we