In washington over several decades he wrote about National Security and foreignpolicy on both the pentagon and state department and he held other important assignments for the times before leaving the paper about four years ago. Paul was seen as one of the journalistic prose in this cityy on the National Security affairs and in his new book he applies his Extensive Knowledge of americas National Security establishment to highlight the valuable role played by some veteran diplomats. He singles out for in particular, ryan crocker, and patterson and Chris Stevens. How significant officers these days folks work with our military and intelligence communities in such countries of afghanistan, iraq, serious, pakistan and libya to combat terrorism and manage the challenging situations. At a time when the u. S. Diplomatic corps is being downsized and disparaged, pauls book is a reminder of the vital contributions made by some of the state departments finest, the risks they sometimes had to take
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Michael lynchs new book is know it all society. To watch the rest of this Program Visit our website, booktv. Org and type the authors name or title into the search box at the top of the page. Training. Were very pleased to have paul richter with us this evening. Paul and i crossed paths a lot when i was a journalist with the Washington Post covering the pentagon and he was reporting for those Los Angeles Times based in washington. Over several decades paul wrote about National Security and Foreign Policy on both the pentagon and then at the state department beat andy help other important assignments for the times before leaving the paper about four years ago. Paul was seen as one of the journalistic prose reported in the city on National Security affairs, and in his new book the ambassadors he applies his Extensive Knowledge of americas National Security establishment to highlight the valuable role played by some veteran diplomats. He singles out four four in particular, ryan crocker,
We are very pleased to have pole here with us this evening. We crossed paths a lot when i was a journalist with the Washington Post covering the pentagon and he was reporting for the Los Angeles Times based in washington over several decades he wrote about National Security and foreignpolicy on both the pentagon and state department and he held other important assignments for the times before leaving the paper about four years ago. Paul was seen as one of the journalistic prose in this cityy on the National Security affairs and in his new book he applies his Extensive Knowledge of americas National Security establishment to highlight the valuable role played by some veteran diplomats. He singles out for in particular, ryan crocker, and patterson and Chris Stevens. How significant officers these days folks work with our military and intelligence communities in such countries of afghanistan, iraq, serious, pakistan and libya to combat terrorism and manage the challenging situations. At a
Told makes it easy to quickly get an idea of what was debated and decided in washington. Scroll through and spend a few minutes on cspans points of interests. Okay. Welcome to class today. How is everybody doing . So this is history outside, a field school and finding america, so all semester weve been going to different places around campus and trying to think about what we see, how the landscape impacts where we are think about where we are. So those Big Questions for the semester are, where emily . Whats the next one that where mi . We got where am i . What happened here . And how do i fit into that now quick so we will do that today to think about where mi, what happened here, and how do i fit into it. So to set this up in the longterm, im going to pull a quote from a book called ecclesiastes from the old testament, and ill read it so that dont mess it up, although there are a lot of different versions of it. All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not yet full. To the plac