So the real question is for all of that is, how did they manage to so marginalize, it are, take no account of women in the midst of the most serious right now Armed Conflict that is engaging so many governments . I dont have the answer to that, but what i do know is we better understand how it even works. It not just about denying both to 1325. They probably also did 1325. Lipservice is a very interesting thing to study. And we have that work now a blatant example of saint lipservice to a major u. N. Was aleutian that they are obligated to abide by and many of them voted for and yet, without seeing any embarrassment to help negotiate a process that shut women not to room. So i am going to and at that point and we can have a good conversation. Yes, please stand. [inaudible] we need mics. There you go. Jump ahead here. I work for a Womens International league for peace and freedom and cynthia has been a longtime member and influencer of our work. For almost 98 years old of a womens Peace
Thank you very much, and thank you very much for everyone showing up this afternoon. Those were very generous comments and i am honored to be here today. At the stimson center, an institution named for and inspired by a man who helps guide the nation through some of the most difficult challenges that we have ever faced. And an organization that i remember calling upon for guidance and assistance on many occasions particularly when i was working for sam nun who i had the pleasure to work with for about 17 years. And i remember spending at the old office north of Dupont Circle many a day talking to bury and mike and the team of experts on proliferation issues, loose nukes, chemical and biological warfare issues. So its a Great Institution and its an honor to come back here. Little did i know two months ago, approximately two months ago when we got together and talked about this, how good stimson was and it really is today i realized how good they are. Two months ago when we picked this d
Franklin roosevelt appoints him in the summer of 1941 aswhat eventually becomes the office of strategic services. Kind of a strange choice because donovan was a staunch republican, had run for governor of new york on an antiroosevelt, antinew deal platform. But he was also a man of irrepressible spirit, boundless optimism, full of ideas and, in a sense, hehe reflected the qualities of Franklin Roosevelt so he was named the head of our first spy service. Cspan as you know, they called him wild bill donovan. Tell us a wild story. Guest well, oneone of theone of the conclusions i reached about donovan was that he was a magnificent magnet for attracting talent. His oss attracted College President s, semanticists, philosophers, writers, journalists, photographers, actors, cameramen. Arthur goldberg had been an oss veteran, subsequently goes on the supreme court. Historian Arthur Schlesinger jr. Was with the oss. The french chef julia child was with the oss. But what kind of strstruck me abo
Literally the house that copyright built. And with that, let me start by just introducing briefly the distinguished panel that we have. Their bios in depth, of course, are in the program and online. But to my immediate left is tom allen who is a former congressman from maine and is presently the president and the chief executive officer of the association of american publishers. To his left is James Shapiro who is a professor of english and a shakespearean scholar and author and Vice President of the Authors Guild. Hes a professor at columbia university. Thank you for coming down from new york, jim. And did you also come down from new york . This week i was here. This week you were in washington. Youre everywhere. And to james left, we have peter jaszi who is also an author, and i will say although peter does not want me to, was recently given the great honor by his colleagues at the Washington College of law to have a lecture named after him. Congratulations, peter, and thank you for
Well, its thank you all for coming. I have to say first that i really honored that mark asked me to be part of this as a third world friends from ann arbor are we both went to college and the editors at the newspaper. I knew then that mark was from the area, like icann, but i didnt know of these intense interest in detroit history and the stories here and that leads me to my first question, which is what i do to want to write this book . I remember you calling me when you are starting to work on that you said to write about book about the jewish heard that since it is everybody. This is a different book than this the others are reading right now. I sensed that a little tiny bit with her not to lunch the first time. Thank you first of all for doing this. I guess ive always been drawn to detroit as a topic and, you know, i thought for the longest time it would maybe turn out to be a novel. That seems like the way to go. Then, you know, when i came back in 2009, for Rolling Stone, i was a