Ferguson, former george w. Bush Administration Justice from an official john you and awardwinning author shall be steel it up first, here is a portion of a 2013 interview with George Scholz, secretary of state during the reagan administration. He talked about his book, issues on my mind. And issues on my mind you right when it comes to terrorism we in this country must think hard about the moral stakes involved if we truly believe in our Democratic Values and our way of life, we must be willing to defend them. Passive measures are unlikely to suffice and means a more active defense and deterrence must be considered and given the necessary political support. Well, you say if you have a Law Enforcement approach, you say, okay, let a terrorist act happen and then we find out who did it and then we try them in a u. S. Court and if we make them guilty with their endless appeals they go to jail. Well, what does that accomplish . A certain deterrent but in the meantime the terrorist act has t
Schultz, he talks about his book, issues on my mind. In the measures onio mind you talk when it comes to terrorism, we must think of moral involved if we must think of way of life, we must be willing to defend them. Means of more active defense and deterrence must be considered given the political support. If you have a Law Enforcement approach, you say, okay, let a terrorist act happen, then we find out who did it and we try them in the u. S. Courts and end lease appeal they go to jail. Well, what does that accomplish . A certain deterrence but in the meantime terrorist act is taking place and terrorist act like 9 11 can kill a lot of people. If you know something is coming at you, stop it from happening. In other words, prevention. I think when i first said that in 1984 it was controversial but after 9 11 people said, of course, we should be trying to stop that from happening and so trying to prevent things is very important and we do it a great deal in the country. I think theres be
Ago. How many others are left . Patrick im sure there are some of the young men around nixon, what we would call back in those days like Dwight Chapin and others who havent written memoirs yet, but im not sure they are going to. But i do think in terms of a written memoir, this is brian, this is probably the last of someone who was right there and knew it from the beginning. Brian what did you put in this book that you had never talked about before . Patrick well, i put in the origins of the agnew speech my memos on that. There is a number of memos in there then i went to my files and got out that i have never published before a great number of them and theres a description of how i almost defected on the china trip. I was so unhappy with it, and theres also the end of it, you know where you put in that quote by john osborne and it looks so he said, he saw i had seen shelly and me when first day, the Inauguration Day in 1969 looking up at the portico and then he had seen how it all end
British writer diana, i regret we cant be with you in person this evening at the Ronald Reagan President Foundation institute. But we are here both spirit and virtually our foundation. Toby philanthropies is proud to support George Shultz fellowships and lecture series. We established this program in december of 2020 in honor of georgias hundredth birthday. It was pleased to have his legacy enshrined in this manner. One short month later, we said goodbye to him, as you all know, George Shultz had an illustrious career in government academe and in the business world. He was a mentor to many myself. He was also my journalist friend, taught our privilege to play a part in distinguished scholars together for a series of roundtable such as this evenings program, which honors georgias life leadership and legacy. We look forward to a future occasion where we can meet with you in person. Thank you for being here this evening. My name is Anthony Eames and i am the director scholarly initiatives
sometimes life is very strange. i was having breakfast this morning in the restaurant of the hamilton hotel thinking about this event and the anniversary which is today. and i looked up and said to my breakfast partner, that looks like carl bernstein and she said it is. and i said who s that guy next to him? it was bob woodward. so that is the way the day started out. i thought that was auspicious. i will get to questions. this is actually a very interesting great panel that we have. i will just mention that we do have an opportunity for audience questions. and that will happen at about a quarter to six. so that we wrap up by 6:00. and i would urge you there will be a microphone. if you raise your hand somebody will get you the mic and you can fire away. some of my colleagues from the washington post are here. so, i know that we will have some heavy-duty journalism happening. so, william golson of the working institution told my colleague dan both recently that we ve been l