If we honored on my view Reagan Administration, so this one will be more informal recollections about what it was like working in the administration for president reagan and the atmosphere at the time. Each of our panelists will offer about 15 minutes of comments and we will adjourn for a q a. For my fellow historians, this is your time to do the expert interviews you have been wanting to do. Introducing my three panelists, this is the man who needs no introduction, because i introduced him three hours ago. Ken adelman. For our purposes here, he served as one of president reagans ambassadors to the u. N. And was also a troubleshooter in another way. I want to talk to you about your role in helping put that together. In the middle here, again, a man to those of us who here in austin we need no direction, bob inman. A very important alumni of the Reagan Administration as well. He was the nsa director and was referenced by one of the speakers in the earlier panel, that was the Deputy Dire
If we honored on my view Reagan Administration, so this one will be more informal recollections about what it was like working in the administration for president reagan and the atmosphere at the time. Each of our panelists will offer about 15 minutes of comments and we will adjourn for a q a. For my fellow historians, this is your time to do the expert interviews you have been wanting to do. Introducing my three panelists, this is the man who needs no introduction, because i introduced him three hours ago. Ken adelman. For our purposes here, he served as one of president reagans ambassadors to the u. N. And was also a troubleshooter in another way. I want to talk to you about your role in helping put that together. In the middle here, again, a man to those of us who here in austin we need no direction, bob inman. A very important alumni of the Reagan Administration as well. He was the nsa director and was referenced by one of the speakers in the earlier panel, that was the Deputy Dire
Be more informal recollections about what it was like working in the administration for president himself and the atmosphere at the time. Each of our panelists will offer 10 to 15 minutes of prefatory comments, and then we will turn it over for q a. Especially for the historians, my fellow historians in the room, this is your time to do the expert interviews you have been wanting to do. Introducing my three panelists, the man who needs no introduction. I mean that literally, because i introduced him three hours ago. Ambassador ken adelman. For our purposes here, he served as one of president reagans ambassadors to the u. N. And was also a troubleshooter in another way. I want to talk to you about your role in putting together the iran contra. In the middle here, again, a man to those of us who here in austin and many other americans, admiral bob inman. He holds the centennial chair, a alum of thent Reagan Administration as well. He was the nsa director and was referenced by one of the
The Richard Nixon Library Museum thisosteds hourlong event. Before we start the discussion, i would like to introduce someone will introduce our speaker. Ken served in both the nixon and Reagan White House is. He joined president nixons campaign in 1968, in the midst of going to law school at columbia university, and served as a Deputy Assistant to president in. He then joined san clemente after he retired and helped research and write his best selling memoirs. He returned to politics in the reagan administration, where he served as a speechwriter and senior adviser. Since then, he has been active in many state and national campaigns. Hes a supportive member of the Nixon Foundation board. [applause] thank you, jonathan. First id like to add a note relative to this setting. Having worked so closely with both president s, i think you would like to know first how much they respected each other, i worked very closely with president nixon and president reagan, and president reagan had an ex
And just before dialling the white house to alert the he receives a third call. The whole thing had been a false alarm. Computer error and the point this is that the prospect, was very real the stakes were very high in the cold war. Years later something amazing happened. Images of seen the on berlin wall opening november 9, 1989, and well get to see them again this fall as commemorate the 20th momentous of that occasion. These years over in roughly a decade . How does the cold war end . We go from the National Security advisor getting called middle of the night with suddenly of alarm to the whole thing ending peacefully. Changes, e are big structural changes that happened happen in the world during this decade. Theres the saoeurling debt drop in the e global price of oil in the mid 1980s which spelled relief for he west and presented a severe obstacle in its efforts to gain currency. You have Information Age that hreatens closed societies and empowered the fundamental ma pts marxist l