Visit st. Augustine, fla. To speak with local lawyers. Check booktv. Org for complete schedule. Booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books every weekend on booktv. Booktv continues now. Michael bohn looks at 17 International Emergencies faced by president s going back to harry truman and assesses how they were handled. Michael bohn served as director of the white house situation room under president reagan. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] thank you for taking your seats, we will get started in just a moment. Welcome. I am the acting dean of the school of government and International Affairs at George Mason University we are delighted to have Robert Guttman one here to a presentation based on his latest book, and we talked about it, some excellent work. And his experiences as well in the situation room in the white house. On will introduce the director of the center for politics and Foreign Relations and theres a formal introduction for a speaker. I will show y
Moment. Welcome. I am mark rosella the International Affairs here at George Mason University and we are delighted to have mark bone here to do a presentation based on his latest book which i had the pleasure to read in draft form and we talked about it at length. It is excellent work. I am thrilled that he is here to make a presentation based on the research he has done in his six years as does well in the situation room at the white house. I am first going to introduce my colleague, the director of our center for politics and Foreign Relations than he is going to make the formal introduction or speaker. I teach a class on the presidency from jfk to obama, so im going to use this for my next few classes. What i like about this book presidency in crisis from truman to obama is that at the end of each crisis or decisionmaking problem in the white house from truman through obama, he does an assessment which gives it an interesting background. You see what jfk did their in decisionmaking d
Journal cspan. Org. Front page of the Los Angeles Times this morning, obama weighs direct action on iraq militants is the headline. Heres the president from yesterday. But what weve seen over the last couple of days indicates the degree to which iraq is going to need more help is going to need more help from us and going to need more help from the international community. My team is working around the clock to identify how we can provide the most effective assistance to them. I dont rule out anything because we do have a stake in making sure that these jihadists are not getting a permanent foothold in either iraq or syria for that matter. Host and the New York Times says u. S. Scramble to help iraq fight off militants. You can see this picture on the front page here, some shiite muslim iraqis volunteering for military service. , obama weighs air strikes. The white house confronted by an unexpected crisis on a battlefield it thought it had left behind, scrambled thursday to reassure ira
L, isi l, l new stress el nustra. Is her top turkish government officials, not necessarily others in the turkish state. They see them as their brothers. I think theres an ambivalence but it is not necessarily an indemnity. Why did they not pull their people out of there . Half a million refugees got out. They were outside of the city but also in the city. Kr g and between the angora could not be better. They have an evacuation plan, even here in washington. Where are you going to go . [laughter] [laughter] would have involved hopping in a vehicle and driving into a kurdish area. They did not take that decision. Somebody needs to ask why. Turkey right now is not the kind of democracy that will lend itself to that review. First of all, when you have 80 hostages, that becomes job number one. There are all kinds of options , butding cyber, military by and large, you are totally succeeded on that problem. Everything else fades. Themurks have lived with on their border in some areas for some
Pleased to have you here today joining us for this event cohosted with the center for a new American Security to mark the release of michael gordons. Excellent new book degrade and destroy the inside story of the war against the islamic state. From barack obama to donald trump. Because michael has had exceptional access to top u. S. Officials and military commanders. And because of his extraordinary firsthand reporting from the battlefields, hes produced a must read book on this historic conflict. We were very proud to have michael with us inhouse at fcd for a period while he was working on the book. And we understand you also spent time at cns during the same. Were all happy to see it on the shelves today. Its available for purchase at all. Major booksellers online, im sure. And for those of you here in person, in the back of the room at the conclusion of todays events. Michael gordon currently as the National Security correspondent for the wall street journal. In addition to his late