Really excited to dive into is how journalism is dealing with this issue, how journalists are trying to cover a story that is unprecedented. Here is how the conversation will go. The first half of the conversation, our guest and i will just have a conversation between the two of us. Halfway through we will start taking your questions. For those of you who are members of the georgetown community, you will see a q and a button. Halfway through we will start taking them. We will let you know when your question has been collected and bring you onto the screen to ask your questions. Ake sure you are tv ready. You can ask chris your question directly. Tell us whether you are a student, staff or faculty and they sure to keep an eye on the chat at the bottom. That is where we will let you now. For those of you that know me, you know my side gig is as a fox ews contributor. I have known chris for a few years now and am a summit semi regular guest on his program. It is intimidating preparing to
Listen on the free cspan radio app. Now, utah republican senator mitt romney takes part in a Georgetown University ritual conversation on American Leadership during times of crisis, specifically the coronavirus pandemic. He criticizes the governments initial response to the pandemic, saying he thought the world was surprised at the u. S. Efforts. From earlier this week, this is over one hour. Good evening and thank you for joining tonights virtual form hosted by the to do politics and public services, commonly referred to as geopolitics. The school ofin Public Policy and the school of business. At georgetown, ive had the opportunity to attend many geopolitics fellow discussions and events. Im also part of a team launching a new student organization, the mcchord refugee and policy organization. Our guest tonight, senator mitt romney. It is a tremendous honor to introduce him. Shipg up, growing up or saved his leadership saves dealer picks and helped the economy of my state. Republicanth
Welcome to the more than 1,000 registered attendees at this jackson virtual discussion forum. This is the fifth of these discussions. These discussions have tapped the Exceptional Leadership in knowledge that resides in the jackson network. Today is no exception. All of our panelists today are senior fellows who teach here at yale. Our moderator today, secretary john kerry graduated from yale, and like jacksons founder, john jackson is joining us today, secretary kerry, john kerry at time, left new haven to serve in vietnam. He then served more than two decades in the u. S. Senate before becoming the 68th under ry of state president obama. You probably know all of that, but what you might not know is that secretary kerry continues to pay it forward, helping to train the next generation of leaders here at the Jackson Institute and across yales many schools. It is my pleasure to welcome secretary kerry. This time, secretary, perhaps ou might offer some initial perspectives on how you ass
Really, i am really excited to dive into is how journalism is dealing with this issue, how journalists are trying to cover a story that is unprecedented. Here is how the conversation will go. The first half of the inversation, our guest and will just have a conversation between the two of us. Halfway through we will start taking your questions. For those of you who are members of the georgetown community, you button. A q and a halfway through we will start taking them. We will let you know when your question has been collected and bring you onto the screen to ask your questions. Make sure you are tv ready. Chris your question directly. Tell us whether you are a student, staff or faculty and they sure to keep an eye on the chat at the bottom. That is where we will let you know. Me,those of you that know you know my side gig is as a fox news contributor. Chris for a few years now and am a summit semi regular guest on his program. It is to intimidating it is intimidating preparing to be i
Notion that it couldnt happen, that they could not elect a catholic president of the United States. If you know our political history for the decades preceding that with al smith and others there was evidence that , you cannot elect a catholic, and that was all transcended and exploded one night in november 1960. And so the world we were looking at in 1968 when i could really finally Pay Attention was a world coming apart in the United States. The vietnam war is raging, we had an incumbent president Lyndon Johnson who had been elected four years ago in a landslide who was on the way to an easy reelection again. He was very likely to be facing some of very good at losing president ial elections. Richard nixon, who had the distinction in history at the beginning of 1968, of being the very first Vice President in history to lose a president ial campaign. He then made Hubert Humphrey the second 1968. As the year began, it was back in that ancient america where if someone said, i democrat o