spoke at the cato institute of washington. this includes remarks by one paul sun, senator rand paul. it s an hour and 10 minutes. good afternoon. welcome to the cato institute. i m david boaz of the institute of her trying something different you are doing an event after work hours. we ll see how that works out, but hopefully it s good for people who have jobs and can t come to the events we do usually at noon. required to have a very interesting discussion of ron paul s revolution. about 30 years ago there was a book published about the early years of the libertarian movement called it usually begins a timer and unless we found a cato, that most of our interns and students who came to her seminaries had first read the fountainhead. not all of him, but more than anything else. i think you can say over the past six years, it usually begins with ron paul. as we get more people hitting their first taste of libertarian ideas and maybe then they move on to read ayn rand and ca
china and india because they re large, big countries. but there s absolutely no intent on challenging soa. the chinese are building up forces and we have to watch that and asked for greater transparency. but they re doing too good a job selling it to us. and so while i watch china with great interest as a professional manner, i m not up to be china is going to become an enemyfg because it got nowhere been our enemy in the past and have gotten very far by not being counting the enemy. .. if you read the consequences as interest we need to have a clear idea of who would be taking over to power. with respect to iran, we need to put pressure on them. they are not going to give up their nuclear program easily. we have been trying to do this for eight or nine years. they keep insisting that it s just for the production of power. but i have seen some of the things that have evolved. so you can t trust them. the solution may well be okay, if all you want is power, let s talk abo
in 1999 he tried to buy my case. we didn t get there until 2003. my case was heard in my home county in alabama in january of 2003. after a week of testimony the jury came back with a verdict in my favor. i had two women who came forward, one of them still working at the plant and at the time she took a tremendous risk, and she paid a horrific price for doing this. but she had suffered a lot of discrimination as well. and she has never gotten anything for it. the other had sold her service and have been working 22 years. she went to work for honda as a supervisor. she took a personal day and came to court and testify on my behalf. the lawyer asked her why she never complained and she said i was a divorced mother supporting a blind and handicapped son and i live paycheck to paycheck and i couldn t afford to bring up my pay. because you see, we were all told in management but if you discuss your pay, you will not work here. evidently, no one ever did discuss their pay. and she
next, in this encore booknotes for 2001 historian herbert bix discusses his biography hirohito and the making of modern japan . professor bix portrays hirohito hirohito asher japan into the modern world. this is about an hour. c-span: herbert p. bix, author of hirohito and the making of modern japan, could somebody who is japanese write this book and publish it through a japanese publisher in japan today? guest: i think so. i think today there has been a number of breakthroughs that have occurred over the past 20 years, and hirohito has died, died 10 years ago, so enough time has elapsed. it s possible a ja and i would expect and, in fact, i would hope that japanese historians will surpass this biography and uncover new material and that we will get critical accounts of the emperor and the role he played, both before, during and after the war. because that man is absolutely crucial for understanding the dilemmas of 20th century japan. c-span: there s a picture in her
coming up next on american history tv, author elizabeth calls hoffman explores the costs and consequences of the u.s. role in world leadership, asking the question, is america an empire or empire? i looking at key turning points, she argues that the u.s. has played the role of umpire since 1776, but she also says umpires cannot win. this program is about an hour. thank you so much, kay, and thank you all for being here. i can t tell you how pleased and honored i am to be here addressing the world affairs council and especially because what i hope we re going to discuss tonight is i think one of the most critical questions of our time, which is, you re not going to know it because i didn t turn the microphone on. [laughs] look, you are human. well, where s the button here, kay? the green light, right? the classic green light. anyway, i m here to discuss one of the critical questions i think of our times which is why the united states assumed the role of world defende