Posted by the atlantic council. It s one hour. Good afternoon and welcome, everyone. I would like to welcome to you a highprofile event in the series today on the topic advancing the priorities of the future of warfare. We have two guests with us today. My name is michael anderson. It s the speakers for the military and defense leaders to discuss the audience across washington s policy community including think tanks, media, industry and government. Particularly when it comes to research and development and how we can be better prepared to meet the future capability needs. We have previously had the pleasure of many distinguished speakersly such as the general d the commander and market expert and the secretary of the army and as you know they both moved on we have two very distinguished guests, the secretary of the army welcome and thank you for being with us today. And chief of staff of the army. I have vivid memories. Now it is my pleasure to introduce the president and ceo who will
bush and foreign leaders who influenced events during the cold war. held by the georgia historical society, this is an hour. we are here to talk about the cold war at 75. this marks the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the cold war, and i just want to briefly introduce you. you were born in macon, georgia, attended georgia tech, graduated from emory university and emory law school, came back to georgia and practiced law and served in the united states house of representatives. then you served for 24 years until you left office in 1996, including eight of those years as chair of the senate armed services committee, and since retiring from the senate, you co-founded, with ted turner and now co-chair the nuclear threat initiative. as yi mentioned, we re here to talk about the events of the cold war as you experienced them. let s start with you. when we think about the cold war, the scariest moment of the cold war was the cuban missile crisis in october of 1962. where were
eberhardt from the friendly d roosevelt presidential library and clay bauske of the president truman presidential library talk about the factors that led to the remaking of their museums and the thought that goes into overhauling their exhibits. the two discuss what their job as curators entail. the fdr presidential library hosted the conversation and provided video. the am herman eberhardt at franklin was of a presidential library and museum and i want to welcome you to a new series of programs featuring conversations between me and curators at other presidential libraries. in this series we will explore the various jobs and roles of museum curators. today we will be talking about one of the most important and complicated jobs of a curator, developing new museum exhibits. curators are responsible for providing new changing exhibits on special topics on a regular basis in their museums. they also make periodic alterations to the museum s larger permanent exhibits to reflect c
i m judy woodruff and i m thrilled to be joining the three amazing authors today. you can see them on the screen. they are george packer whose latest book the man who ran washington richard holbrooke and the man who ran washington and the life and times of james a. baker, iii. two brilliant books about two complicated and fascinating men. they were born a decade apart. baker in houston in 1930 and holbrooke in manhattan in 1941. baker a republican trained as a lawyer, holbrooke a democrat foreign service officers student of foreign policy. their lives are very different and they are project trees but they both ended up in washington where they became major power players. peter, picking up on that this is a man with great ambition and i was there even before he came to washington. yeah it was. he was a family of aristocracy. his family built modern houston and he was expected to do great things. a very dominating father who is in part done him the legacy of his family.
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