Climate. I am a visiting professor at harvard, and it was great to be at harvard and be in the Cambridge Community while i wrote this book so many great resources that helped me to rite this book. I have been asked a number of times about the origins of this book. The reasons i wrote it. And that actually has to do with my previous book called 1989, the struggle to create post cold war europe. These books are in the reverse order. 1989 talks about the Foreign Policy that followed the fall of the berlin wall. The collapse is actually about the fall of the berlin wall. So the new book is a prequel to my previous book. This book is about the Foreign Policy that followed the fall of the berlin wall, and when i did book types id say, im here to talk about the Foreign Policy that followed the accidental opening of the berlin wall. And often i would not even get to that sentence. Somebody would interrupt me and say, timeout. What do you mean the accidental opening of theber win wall . That wa
It was great to be in the community and waiver of this book there were so many great resources that help me too write this book. So i have been asked a number of times about the origins of this book. The reasons i wrote it. That actually has to do with my previous book called 1989 and these books are actually in the reverse order, 1989 talks about the Foreign Policy in the fall of the berlin under berlin wall and its an s once a prequel to my new book. This book as i said is about the Foreign Policy that followed the berlin wall and they were going to do book talks like this one and i would get up and say hi, im here to talk about the Foreign Policy of the berlin wall. Often i would not even get to that. Somebody would interrupt me and say timeout when deeming accidental opening of the berlin wall. Sometimes i also got your nose touring, dont you know president reagan open the berlin wall. Dont you know and he went to berlin in 1987 and said he tore down the wall. In a get that questio
Conversations that other people are not having, and i feel like this is one of those. I would like to give you an little overview. If you have cell phones, please take photos, but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you can see, and that is distracting. We will have the book for sale. We have them for sale currently. If you want to, i emplore you to look through it and have alan sign it as well. We have a wonderful server who will be here all night, so please take care of her as she will take care of you. I will now turn it on over to alan for the talk of ghosts of Sheridan Circle for the talk. [applause] dr. Mcpherson thank you very much, olivia. Thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. I want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the few institutions, also, who made this happen in washington. Im so happy to be presenting this in washington, which is , you know, literally the scene of this crime. The institute for policy studies is very important
Pam donaldson. [applause] thank you, thank you. Ladies and gentlemen welcome to this mornings program. You know there are states that all of us have that are very personal and there are dates that we have as a country that we all share. In my lifetime december 7, 1941, november 22, 1963, 911. These are three terrible dates for the country and then theres november 9, 1989. Good news, the fall of the berlin wall. Its a subject that we are going to discuss today. How did it happen . What are the consequences . He did this . Who knew . For a look at whats in store for us this morning its a pleasure to welcome andrew card who served in three administration with Ronald Reagan as Deputy Assistant to the president and director of intergovernmental affairs. George Herbert Walker bush, the secretary of transportation and with george w. Bush he was the white house chief of staff. Andrew card. [applause] thank you very much, sam. I wanted to be here. We are grateful for Georgetown University and t
It. Here at busboys, we like to have conversations that others are not having, and this is one of them. I would like to give you an overview. If you have cell phones, please take photos but dont make the flash happen. We are filming tonight, as you can see, and that is distracting. We will have the book for sale. We have them or sale currently. If you want to, i employ you to look through it and have alan sign it. We have a wonderful server who will be here all night, so please take care of her as she will take care of you. I will now turn it on over to alan for the top of ghosts of Sheridan Circle for the talk of ghosts of Sheridan Circle. Dr. Mcpherson thank you very much, olivia. Thank you to busboys and poets for hosting this. I want to thank my publisher for putting this together, the few institutions, also, who made this happen in washington. Im so happy to be presenting this in washington, which is literally the scene of this crime. The institute for policy studies is very impor