Particular. We didnt try to take on the whole envoy question for because the conflict ones had special characteristics. But tom, youre putting your finger on a problem. Because if you looked at the number of special envoys, and its almost the same from one administration to another, youre talking about 25 or more special envoys, and if theyre all supposed to report to the secretary of state, you realize, in addition to all the regular structures, you really have an unworkable structure. [ inaudible ] yeah. So its not bad to put these under some of them under a structured bureau, and therefore have an undersecretary who is handling more of that. And i think we have to be very careful about the proliferation in to areas that, again, sometimes become more symbolic. And i think deserves more attention. On the conflict with other policies, this is very important. We tried to deal with it a little bit, Richard Haass experience working on cyprus in relationship to our relationship with turkey
General, thanks for your time this morning. I was hoping you could clarify how air strikes are being conducted without any jtax on the ground in most cases and also how you assess civilian casualties in most cases, if at all . Let me start with civilian casualty piece. You know, the coalition is really very deliberate about how it conducts strikes out there. And we have some great capability in terms of precision. Whats in the balance here if youre not careful is you can be precisely wrong. You could strike, you know, tribe, you could strike Iraqi Security forces and you could create a very bad situation. To date weve got a very good record. Im tracking no civilian casualties where we just if we even suspected civilian casualties, we would immediately direct investigation, determine the cause and then seek to understand the lessons is learned from that and apply those lessons learned. So thats the civilian casualty piece of this. And again, a very deliberate process. And the second que
Pat buchanan, your new book about the 1968 campaign of Richard Nixon is that a beginning of a trilogy for you . I had intended by it. I got down into my files and brought back all the stories and memories, and thought the nixon comeback in his earliest years was a book in and of itself, a book in which i was very close to Richard Nixon, his staff is very small, and it was an extraordinary story, an extraordinary time. A time of assassinations and riots and campus anarchy and revolution, the tet offensive, americans coming home in caskets the convention at chicago it is an extraordinary story. I decided to put it all into one book. I will go through the chronological part of this book and talk about some of the things i have never seen before and begin with asking you about the first moment you met Richard Nixon. The first moment was at the Burning Tree Country Club in 1954. Pete cook and i were looking for a summer job. We were the only two white guys out there. After the black caddies
About the 1968 campaign of Richard Nixon is that a beginning of a trilogy for you . I had intended by it. Files and into my brought back all the stories and memories, and thought the nixon comeback in his earliest years was a book in and of itself, a book in which i was very close to Richard Nixon, his staff is very small, and it was an extraordinary story, an extraordinary time. Time of assassinations and riots and campus anarchy and revolution, the tet offensive, americans coming home in caskets the convention at chicago it is an extraordinary story. I will go through the chronological part of this book and talk about some of the things i have never seen before in to begin with asking you about the first moment you met Richard Nixon. The first moment was at the Burning Tree Country Club in 1954. Pete cook and i were looking for a summer job. We were the only two white guys out there. After the black caddies have gone after their afternoon bags, the Vice President was put out on the b
I got down into my files and brought back all the stories and memories, and thought the nixon comeback in his earliest years was a book in and of itself, a book in which i was very close to Richard Nixon, his staff is very small, and it was an extraordinary story, an extraordinary time. A time of assassinations and riots and campus anarchy and revolution, the tet offensive, americans coming home in caskets, the convention at chicago it is an extraordinary story. I decided to put it all into one book. I will go through the chronological part of this book and talk about some of the things i have never seen before and begin with asking you about the first moment you met Richard Nixon. The first moment was at the Burning Tree Country Club in 1954. Pete cook and i were looking for a summer job. We were the only two white guys out there. After the black caddies had gone after their afternoon bags, the Vice President s was put out on the bench. The assistant looked over at me and pete cook an