Dean, carter speech writer Hendrick Hertzberg and reagan speech writer John Podhoretz offered their thoughts. This event hosted by the New York Public Library. Good morning, everybody. Id like to welcome you here to the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session in shades of red and blue uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff. Im the executive director of the ethics center, and on behalf of our partners in presenting this session, id like to welcome you. Id like to do so on behalf of the Carnegie Council for ethics and International Affairs, as well as the bard globalization and International Affairs program and advance, which is a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Its significant, i think, that we are meeting just after midday on the 1st of april. Some people saw the choice of this date and i thought it was a delicious irony, but, in fact, its a somewhat deliberate irony, because in most countries around the world, people are
Of testimony on us military strategy in the asiapacific region focusing on north korea, that is at 9 30. Follow live coverage from the Senate Armed Services committee on cspan3, online at cspan. Org and streaming on the cspan radio apps. Now a look at the Trump Presidency and how it compares to previous administrations your presence here is true of every hour of every day of your life for other people who are in your presence conjures up the specter or the memory or the muscle memory and some of us of the experiences for decades ago with watergate. As we sit here in the tent tentk or the beginning of the 11th week of the Trump Presidency, obviously one of your themes over the last 70 days has been this question of whether the Trump Presidency is an unprecedented event, or whether it evokes, uncomfortably, evokes the period in which you were a major actor. Do you think that we are in uncharted territory, or is the territory all too charted, shall we say . Well, we are not at watergate 2
I would like to welcome you here to the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session of shades of red and blue, uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff, executive director. On behalf of our partners in presenting the session, i would like to welcome you on behalf of the Carnegie Council for ethics in International Affairs as well as the bard globalization program, and a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Its significant i think that we are meeting just after midday on the 1st of april. Some people saw the choice of this date and they thought it was a delicious irony. In fact its a somewhat deliberate irony, because in most countries around the world, people are aware of the fact that today is april fools day. And the significance of the fool is often underestimated. In literature, we know from plays like king lear and also from medieval history that the role of the fool was to speak truth to power. Not just to speak truth to the p
To the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session in shades of red and blue, uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff. Im the executive director of the ethics center. On behalf of our partners in presenting this session, i would on behalf ofme you the Carnegie Council for ethics and International Affairs, as well as the bard globalization and International Affairs program, and a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Think, thaticant, i we are meeting just after midday on the first of april. Some people saw the choice of this date, and i thought it was a delicious irony. In fact, is a somewhat deliberate irony because in most countries around the world, people are aware of the fact that today is april fools day. The significant of the fool is often underestimated in literature underestimated. In the future in literature, the role of the fool was to just truth to power, not to speak truth to the powerful, but to speak truth to power.
To the forum at the New York Public Library for the first session in shades of red and blue, uniting a divided nation. My name is simon longstaff. Im the executive director of the ethics center. On behalf of our partners in presenting this session, i would on behalf ofme you the Carnegie Council for ethics and International Affairs, as well as the bard globalization and International Affairs program, and a network of other australians like myself from around the world. Think, thaticant, i we are meeting just after midday on the first of april. Some people saw the choice of this date, and i thought it was a delicious irony. In fact, is a somewhat deliberate irony because in most countries around the world, people are aware of the fact that today is april fools day. The significant of the fool is often underestimated in literature underestimated. In the future in literature, the role of the fool was to just truth to power, not to speak truth to the powerful, but to speak truth to power.