Karl rove, your moderator. [applause] good morning. What a pleasure to be here to talk about some of the most important subjects that are on everybodys mind. Today we are going to have a wonderful opportunity to talk to three outstanding experts about the election that changed our history. Somebody who once worked on many campaigns, i will be fascinated to hear the assessment of my colleagues here. Lets start with you, hw. How these we should be looking at transformation as an overarching theme for discussion, president ial leadership . When i think about a. Elections i talk about two categories, those elections whose importance is not known until after the election because the election sets up certain conditions, brings in a certain officeholder and things happen. The election of 1942 where Franklin Roosevelt becomes president and launches the new deal, the moment he won no one knew how big a deal it was. In 1860 Abraham Lincoln was elected and immediately things start to fall apart.
Thank you. [applause] the writers festival continues now with a discussion on us president ial elections with Arthenia Joyner and historians mark and morley. Karl rove, your moderator. [applause] good morning. What a pleasure to be here to talk about some of the most important subjects that are on everybodys mind. Today we are going to have a wonderful opportunity to talk to three outstanding experts about the election that changed our history. Somebody who once worked on many campaigns, i will be fascinated to hear the assessment of my colleagues here. Lets start with you, hw. How these we should be looking at transformation as an overarching theme for discussion, president ial leadership . When i think about a. Elections i talk about two categories, those elections whose importance is not known until after the election because the election sets up certain conditions, brings in a certain officeholder and things happen. The election of 1942 where Franklin Roosevelt becomes president an
Everybodys attention please. All right. Welcome to the met club thank you for coming out on this rainy evening and i know theres a lot of traffic and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were absolutely delighted im not doing introduction yet but delighted to have dick march here the first time hes been here at the club. Thank you, welcome to the met club. [applause] were to have our friends from cspan here thats pretty cool so wave to the guys at cspan there. [laughter] yeah. Okay just a couple of quick announcements, our next adventure at the club will be the first thursday. Yeah, you will too. Our next event here at the club will be first thursday october fifth and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman adele who she and her husband moved to washington, d. C. Her husband david who is a very noted economist is part of the easy under secretary the treasury for International Monetary affairs. So hes been confirmed as undersecretary and treasury so theyve moved
Can i get everybodys attention please . All right. Welcome to the met club. Thank you for coming out on this rainy evening. Know theres a lot of traffic and everything so we appreciate you coming here. Were absolute im not doing the introduction yet but dehighlighted to have dick morris here tonight. Thank you. Welcome to the met club. Were also glad to have our friends from cspan here. Thats pretty cool. So wave to the guys at cspan there. Just a couple of quick announcements. Our next event here at the club will be our first thursday say hello. The next event is first thursday, october 5th, and that will be our Farewell Party to our county chairwoman, adele, who she and her husband moved to washington, dc. Her husband, david, who is a very noted economist, is part of the the undersecretary of the treasury for International Monetary affairs. So hi has been confirmed as an undersecretary of the treasury. He is going to be here that night, too so its a great opportunity to celebrate the
The hearing ran an hour and a half. The Foreign Relations committee will come to order. We thank our the Foreign Relations committee will come to order. The senators who i know care deeply about this issue. I would like to thank you for being here to testify, your insights and experience will be helpful as we begin to reengage on this difficult topic. Its been well over a decade since 9 11, and theres an interest on the part of many members to revisit and refresh the authority we used to fight terrorism. In 2014 we saw the rise of isis which feeds territory in iraq and syria and has seen thousands of foreign fighters and conducted repeated attacks against the United States or our allies. As a result of these types of threats and others, multiple president s have use the 2001 authorization for the use of military force by necessity to conduct hundreds of drone sites around the world and to put american troops on the ground in multiple countries. However, there are a multitude of terrori