Council or Foreign Relations since 2003. Today were here convenes to listen to Richard Haass the prolific author and academic who just came out with yet another book entitled not very ambushesly as he said, slightly ambushesly the world, a brief history in 300 pages. He calls it a little bit of a departure from his previous books. I want to start because it was only after you turned in the manuscript that the world was confront by the covid19 pandemic, and in the roughly two months since that happened, this crisis has highlighted so many of the themes and concepts you tackle in the book. So i wanted to just ask you outright, what does the pandemic tell us about the world right now . Well, thank you, juju, thank you for doing this. Thanks always to everybody on the call. Hope everybody is well and safe as we all get through this one day at a time or as ive said, one groundhog day at a time. What i think the pandemic tells us first and for most is that the world matters. Thats perhaps an
Listen to richard haas the prolific author and academically came out with another book entitled the world. A brief history and 300 pages its departure but i want to start because only after you turned and manuscript the world was confronted by the covidien pandemic and since that happened this crisis has highlighted so many of the themes and concepts that you tackle in the book. I just want to ask you out right what does the pandemic tell us about the world right now . Thank you for doing this also thank you to everyone on this call we hope everybody is well and safe as we get through this one day at a time its like groundhog day. With the pandemic tells us first and foremost is that the world matters and that is obvious were member of the council on Foreign Relations the world matters and what happens around the world doesnt stay there now its a small city in china where the virus broke out spread through china and then to the United States and elsewhere around the world, 9 11 it was
Richard wears many hats. Of ambassador. And the future of afghanistan. Frequent morning joe contributor and of course our fearless leader the president of non counsel for relations. We are listening to Richard Haass the author and academic who has just come out with yet another book the world a brief history. He calls it a little bit of a departure. I want to start richard because it was only after you turned in the manuscript that the world was confronted by the covid19 pandemic and in the roughly two months since that happened they had highlighted so many of the teams in concepts. What does the pandemic tell us what is the pandemic tell us about the world right now. Thanks also to everyone on this call. Needless to say i hope everybody is well. As we all get through this one day at a time when groundhog day at a time. What i think the pandemic tells us first and foremost is that the world matters and that is an obvious thing for member of the council on foreign relations. The world m
First of all, thank you for having me. What has surprised me about the process and it probably should not have been a big surprise but it was great to see it up close. The voters in the early states really do take this process very seriously. And so, that has been a very positive surprise in terms of the engagement of the voters in the early states. And i think of other americans could see that, they would be much more comfortable with the early state process we engage in. What surprised me on the negative was the fact that it seems like a kind of social media primary has been inserted ahead of the iowa caucus and the New Hampshire primary. In other words, the race got very nationalized very early. There is no invisible primary . That is right. To some extent historically, the early states really were the first indication in terms of what voters are thinking that things like what the dnc did with the debate rules and requiring candidates to have a certain number of small donors that ki
And by the end of this class, Richard Nixon will be the president. So weve been waiting a long time to get to that point since january so to recap from last time, 64 was a terrible year for republicans. One of the four great landslides of the 20th century where arizona senator Barry Goldwater lost was defeated. Incumbent president Lyndon Johnson. So a terrible year for republicans. Conservatives. However, call it a great year. 1964. And remember, we talked conservatives were democrats, conservatives were republicans. They were divided. Its different than it is. The parties are configured. And in 64, if youre a conservative and still are a few goldwater conservatives around and we asked them today kind of talk to about 64 they dont talk like that. They went over the cliff with goldwater. They get the sort of twinkle in their eye and the smile. And this was a wonderful year to be a conservative. It was really the year that conservatives exerted themselves. Not only did they get a true co