Then deputy mayor. This led to her writing a book. Woman the analysis of awomans campaign 1920 through 1992. During the Carter Administration she was appointed regional director of the federal agency that supervised this to and the peace corps, and other volunteer programs. She has worked for foundations, of the pentagon, the university of california, and has written a great deal for the magazine the american prospect. Most of what she has been doing betrayal,patriotic what we are going to be talking about this evening. It is a subject of enormous importance, even though it is about rings that happened 50 or 60 years ago, i think you will see that there is an act go in echo in that book for things going on today. I would like to begin at the point in your life when you got involved with this story. You were a student at the university of colorado, in the early 1960s. Attended au conference of the National Student association. What was that . Nsa was a membership school, organization of
And has written a great deal for the magazine the american prospect. Mostly what she has been doing is writing what i think is quite a Remarkable Book patriotic , betrayal. It is what we will be talking about this evening. It is a subject of enormous importance, even though it is about things that happened 50 or 60 years ago, i think you will see that there is an echo in that book for things going on today. I would like to begin at the point in your life when you got involved with this story. You were a student at the university of colorado, in the early 1960s. In 1964, you attended a conference of the National Student association. What was that . What was the conference like . Karen nsa was a Membership Organization of 300 universities and colleges in the United States. It claimed to speak for all American Students. It had huge annual conferences called congresses that minute minute political parties, attended by delegates from the member schools. I went not as a delegate, i went as a
General ham let me start with you. Sort of going in proposition with africom in many ways is youre not going to have large amounts of american troops under your command on the ground, if any. Did you feel at times that you were a general in charge of the contractor army . No, not at all. There is a proper role i think for the contractors but theres also a proper role for the uniformed military. Like the other Combatant Commanders and the Service Chiefs i was part of a discussion with the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and secretary of defense that yielded the defense strategic guidance of 20 to which was approved by the president , and conduct with regard to advocate says they will seek a light footprint innovative and it reads lowcost, approach to africa. Not only because i was part of that discussion but i think that is the right approach. I dont think there is a need for a large standing u. S. Uniformed military presence in africa. But there is a role and there are places whe
But we didnt know how to cancel the appointment, so i was still feverish, but im the daughter of several lawyers and i know that im supposed to read fine print, only it was so fine and i just jumped all the page, but at that point the important point is i had no reason to distrust the United States government as quaint as that may sound host this is 1955. Guest 1965. No reason, nor did i have any idea what he was going to say. So i signed and then i kind of catch words of this. He said the United States government has to support france in its war against the algerian revolutionaries, but it behooves us to get to know the revolutionarys future leaders and this is part of what he is doing itch didnt have a clue why the United States had to support france. I didnt know there were algerian revolutionaries but the most important thing at that moment i retained is the word behoove every time i heard that word for the rest of my life the hair on the back of my head would stand up. So he expla
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