Between president ial candidates in 16 years and the first ever in which an incumbent president has participated, is taking place before the audience in the walnut street theater in philadelphia, just three blocks from independence hall. The audience may reach a hundred million in the United States and many millions overseas. Tonights debate focuses on domestic issues and Economic Policy. Questions will be put by Frank Reynolds of abc news, james gannon of the wall street journal, and Elizabeth Drew of the new yorker magazine. Under the agreed rules the first question will go to governor carter. That was decided by the toss of a coin. He will have up to three minutes to answer. One followup question will be permitted with up to two minutes to reply. President ford will then have two minutes to respond. The next question will go to president ford with the same time arrangements, and questions will continue to be alternated between the candidates. Each man will make a threeminute stateme
Senior fellow and director of the Chinese Energy at the huston institution. Hudson institute. Hes a distinguished defense and policy advisor, a former highranking Government Official andauthor of numerous books and reports on china. I can tell you definitively that might has really changed the us militarys thinking. Back a number of years ago he was sent to china to collect Chinese Military writings and he was the First American official who revealed that what the chinese were telling themselves militarily behind the scenes was quite different than what they were saying in public about how they wanted to be friends with the world and it really had a tremendous impact on understanding the militaries view of the peoples republic ofchina. His book is a landmark book. His most recent book is the hundred year marathon, chinas secret strategy to replace america as a global superpower. This book is really a fascinating look and is probably one of the only places in public where youll find inf
And id like to first introduce our panelists including myself. Doctor Michael Pillsbury is one of the foremost china experts in the world. Hes currently a senior fellow and director of the chinese strategy at the hudson institution. Hes a distinguished defense and policy advisor, former highranking governorofficial and author of numerous books and reports on china. I can tell you definitively that mike has really changed the us militarys thinking back some number of years ago he was sent to china to collect Chinese Military writings and he was the First American official who revealed that what the chinese were telling themselves militarily behind the scenes was quite different than what they were saying in public about how they wanted to be friends with the world and it really had a tremendous impact on understanding the militaries view of the peoples republic ofchina. His book is a landmark book. His most recent mark is focused hundred year map marathon, chinas hundred year strategy t
Policy adviser, former high ranking Government Official and author of numerous books and reports on china. I know dish can tell you definitively that mike has really changed the u. S. Militarys thinking back a number of years ago he was sent to china to collect Chinese Military writeings and was the First American official who reveal what the chinese were telling themselves behind the scenes was quite different than what they were saying in public but how they wanted to be friend with the world, and it really had a tremendous impact on understanding the militarys view of the peoples republic of china. His book is a landmark book, most recent book is the hundred year marathon chinas secret strategy to replace america as global super power. This book is really a fascinating look and is probably one of the only places in public where youll find information about chinese defectors, people from within the Chinese Communist party system who reveal what is going on there. Before mike speak is
James bond novels written by ian fleming. I have pictured him with his brother, robert kennedy, because the brothers together had great influence on u. S. Intelligence. Theres a lot to say about u. S. Intelligence under kennedy, even though he serves less than a full term because, of course, he was assassinated by a procuban american leftist, a disturbed former marine named lee harvey oswald. At the end, ill have some reflections about the assassination. Before we get to the main intelligence events of this administration, i want to mention a couple of other developments that are not as spectacular but still they deserve to be remembered as important milestones in u. S. Intelligence history, and they leave a legacy to this day. One of them is the president s daily brief. Which was created for kennedy as the president s intelligence checklist. When i first came to cia in 1990, i was i learned that one of the nicknames that insiders used was the pickle factory. They never used the compan