Im kelly mccutchen, president of the foundation and i would like to welcome everyone to our february breakfast. Most importantly i would like to welcome our elected officials here today. We appreciate your service. We have a great event lined up today on issues that are near and dear to our hearts and its a key part of something we feel strongly about as Economic Opportunity and to introduce our speaker i will bring about Vice President , anita dodd. [applause]. Good morning. Im a little shorter and closer to the microphone, so i hope you can hear me a little better. I would like to welcome dick carpenter today, but i want to tell you first have much we have worked over the years with the institute for justice. I think about it with we sue government that sounds pretty good to me, but dick is a coauthor of bottleneckers. Dont miss your opportunity to get a copy. Its excellent and shocking. Bottleneckers gaming the government for power and private profit hes also director of Strategic R
[inaudible conversations] good afternoon. Welcome to the Washington Institute. I am robbed that last comment there and im delighted to welcome you to this special event. Before you begin, if i can ask everyone to take your iphones or sam sans or whatever and turn them on island because we are broadcasting live on cspan 1. Please watch your language, speaking clear tones of people around the world can hear us today. You are free to to eat as much as you like because we are eager to get the message of todays discussion out far and wide. It is not often that one can time the publication of the new book so precociously to an International Event or perhaps i should say its not often one can arrange an International Referendum in a faraway country to be time perfectly with the publication of a new book. But as it turns out, we have today this confluence of events. We have the referendum and hurt you in turkey that although the results and process where provocative and remain controversial, i
Could. Stakes for coming this is your first day at the pentagon began quite a while someone to Start Talking about the future and personal reform so if you could talk about what are the accomplishments over the past year you are the most proud of . Cry was of the army is undersecretary and remember dr. Carter asked me to serve and be their 31 2 years as general counsel and undersecretary i spent time talking about issues and advocating for personal with very innovative thinkers in the army. It over the next year or year and a half they will be historic for personnel reform. We were pleased to add Sexual Orientation for example, since dead dont ask dont tell was is repealed did we added 401k to benefits that is new in the history of u. S. Military with that congress to support that it has had a massive impact and then transgendered service and we put together a plan what that may mean it and then the work we were already doing which is the extraordinary effort to put together reforms fo
Welcome everybody. I am Walter Isaacson and its my pleasure to welcome you to the f. Aspen institute. We were just discussing the period in the late 1940s evan thomas and by many years ago wrote a book called the wise men which was the time of a bipartisan foreignpolicy and we were facing challenges that were similar to the Global Challenges we are facing today. During that period Robert Lovett who is the undersecretary of state every evening he is to drive by the wardman park across rock creek for marie lived and stopped by and talk to the republican chair of the Senate Foreign relations committee. And together with a Bipartisan Group of people, with the senate and Truman Administration working in concert they were able to have the most creative flourish to Global Challenge that i think you can find in history that created nato the creation of nato, the world bank and the institutions of radio free europe, the Bretton Woods economic agreements the Marshall Plan as we build europe. We
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