For more information, go to our website. Announcer the Richard Nixon president ial library and museum in yorba linda, california recently completed a major renovation. Up next, exhibit and website designers discuss the museum and how the revised museum tells a more complete story about president nixon and his administration. The museum now includes a replica oval office, a gallery on nixon in china, and updated interactive displays. This is just over 90 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the new Richard Nixon president ial library and museum. Todays program will be introduced by ronald h. Walker, chairman of the Richard Nixon foundation, and david ferriero, the archivist of the United States. [applause] thank you, and good morning, everyone. Over the last four decades, Richard Nixons career in public service, there was talk about many new nixons. But this museum, which opened yesterday most of you were here is truly the newest and i think youll agree with us, its the best of nix
Thank you and good morning, everyone. Over the last four decades, Richard Nixons career in Public Service, there was talk about many nixons, but this museum, which opened yesterday, is truly the newest, and i think youll agree, the best of nixon. This morning, we will be hearing from the think well group. Therotina and the cortina productions who designed the museum. And the creator of our new website. The website is terrific. With any project of this there are many people whose contribution was vital to the success of this museums completion. Unquestionably, the new without whom, and my very dear partner of the planning of this new Nixon Library and museum. It is my distinct pleasure to introduce the archivist of the United States of america, the. Onorable david ferrio [applause] david thank you and good morning. , i reminded folks the faith and capacity of the citizenry to learn from the past greatery could gain future. Continued to fulfill that mission is the programs third i would
Thank you all of you, and again books are available from. We really appreciate everyone. [applause] [inaudible conversations] up next from nixon president ial library, geoff shepard, president nixons at the thought give her what would win. The 70 from not the primary. Right now shes running a primary campaign flanked by senator sanders of vermont and only mildly disturbed by james webb, dismissive of Vice President biden and casting a wary glance at john kerry in switzerland was preparing to have an account but to contrast with her accomplishment free tenure at the department of state. She is, in fact, a dreadful candidate, she in fact had a catastrophic tenure at the department of state. So if your dreadful camera with difficulty connecting, people raising issues as karl rove raised about her health, if you cannot but run into ageish of Ronald Reagan ran into danger to confronted squarely, and if you have nothing on which to run, what do you do . I suggest to her a platform that has f
When he comes into office in 2009, one of, one of his first acts of offices to give a new years greeting to the iranian people. He says i want to get on a different page with iran and recognize their rights and later to enrich uranium which not many countries in the world do. This is the problem for the state of israel. Thats an understatement that its a problem. Why is it a problem 1st of all understand what the Iranian Nuclear Program Means for us. Is. Is not just one threat. It is several threats for the obvious one is that they break out or sneak out of whatever restrictions have been placed on them and they make a bomb. According to the program on the ground, the deal that has been proposed, it would take them a year according to an oped piece in the New York Times by one of the leading experts on the subject, they could do it in less than a month. Thats too short for us. They are ready have injured continental Ballistic Missiles that can reach most of Central Europe and any city
Person max a big difference to the overall pattern. We have been reading a book voyages in World History. We know from that book there are all kinds of big patterns and its the job of students and professional historians to figure out what the big pattern is. Because in our lives so much of what happens is so complex and chaotic and quick that we cant figure out what is the overall trajectory. So some of the patterns are the effect of the environment upon us. Whether its all the things that nature hurls at us. Whether its a hurricane or flood, famine or tiny microbes that affect people like ebola. We have looked at things like mechanical things or technological inventions. Those are also big patterns. So the ways in which farming. Farming doesnt seem like a technology. But the ways in which farming and the plow and things replaced hunting and gathering. That replacement of hunting and gathering from farming led us from the neolithic to paleolithic. What bigger pattern could there be th