Eisenhower foundation is raising money to conduct a comprehensive exhibit renovation. It is the Largest Campaign in our foundations 73 year history and the First Comprehensive exhibit renovation in more than 45 years. The new exhibits will be unveiled this summer. We have been so encouraged the by the response we have received thus far. I am pleased to report we have raised 98 of our goal. [applause] meredith we want to finish the campaign by june 6 so we can publicly announce this to all veterans who join us at the eisenhower president ial library and museum to commemorate the 75th anniversary of dday. Many of our friends have already made a gift to the renovation and i would like to thank you for your trust and participation in this project. There is still time to participate and i hope everyone will consider a gift so that we can reach our goal. It gives me great pleasure to introduce tonights program. Louis galambos is a Professor Emeritus in the department of history and editor of
Will by iranian oil and so on and so forth then i think that would put pressure on the throne administration to act because for the time being while sanctions are there but the escalation is going on the strategy is not really working. But particularly on the part of china we have seen in an unwillingness to. Really follow up their words with with any solid action i mean with that possibly change if. Because obviously now they know that withdrawal from the nuclear deal what happens if iran starts ramping up the reining in enrichment beyond the terms agreed in that way on top of these incidents happening in the gulf look i think china would have rather there was no trade tensions with washington and there is no iranian crisis because china since the 1980 s. Had been building up its economy and its military in order to become a world superpower and clearly the biggest challenge and the biggest threats to Global Security for the next many many years to come would be china versus the Unite
Lobbyist and political power which is better and better and caught you know more and more concentrated and youre able to dole out you know not only government contracts thats not as important but basically laws whereby you could forbidden any competent competitors from rising against the powerful so we have an oligarch system that has emerged several studies from harvard princeton theyve all shown that we have a basically in oligarchies that some powerful corporate c. E. O. s control the politicians and we have a system whereby you cant innovate you cant the barriers to entry are so huge in so Many Industries across america but of course the number one that we have been looking at over the past year or 2 has been the Health Care System partly because weve been subjected to it now that weve returned here and its pretty horrific but i want to look at this one headline from the past week or 2 and that was that 3 me. Her drug makers sued the trumpet ministration to block a rule that would
Work. When i joined the agency, there were a lot of women in that position. Walk us through what inspired you to write the book and tell us what the targeting officer does in your mission. I joined as an analyst, da side, the analyst side. My intent when i was doing this was to have a job for extra work for overseas. Ive always wanted to travel. I like learning other linkages and other cultures and i got lucky when i applied and they called. I got in in a completely different role. The targeting officer of the time was in the operations side. Tells about the role you initially took on. The first job i had was a role in hr, organizational development. Allocate resources and try to understand how they can best structure and modernize their workforce. Are those skills transferable . That wasnt how i started my academic and professional career. I ended up there. My background was in economics. Are you from texas originally . Montana. Did you always want to grow up and be an intel . You wan
A Monthly Subscription fee if i got access to america the enterprise and they could pay the occasional didnt like andrew young a suggesting if 1000. 00 a month thats a dividend from my subscription to america thats fine theres no coercion involved as a course of taxes involve that we happily pay my monthly america subscription for the value that it offers me well you should be able to have a subscription to which every nation on earth you want in whichever one has the best policies because im going to skip ahead to the other story i had here about the United States and what part of the reason why i think its china has ina reliant is that what inevitably happens in this sort of system where you have lobbyist and political power which is better and better and caught you know more and more concentrated and youre able to dole out. You know not only government contracts thats not as important but basically laws whereby you could forbidden any competent competitors from rising against the po