Wife of our president newly elected hugh hewitt. [applause] our distinguished speaker was to dr. Kissinger as dr. Kissinger was to president nixon. He joined kissingers security staff in 1969 as special assistant traveling the world on virtually every Major Initiative in the greater cold war. He was with dr. Kissinger during the talks with go she ate her in purse that culminated in the paris peace accords. He was with president nixon in moscow in during his first trip there in 1972 and he was therefore kissingers shuttles between the arabs and israelis after the yom kippur war. He was a key actor in nixons trip to china in 1972 known as the week that changed the world. Was president of the council on formal relations and assistant secretary of state for Southeast Asian and pacific affairs. From until 2016 he conducted oral histories of Henry Kissinger on behalf of the foundation. They cover a variety of subject , andr china, vietnam statesmanship and are and now adable book is availabl
I just wanted to mention a couple of special guests. We have our distinguished speaker this evening, i wanted to mention a couple of special guests. We have our distinguished speakers daughter here and her husband. We have betsy hewitt, the wife of newly elected hugh hewitt. Our distinguished speaker was to dr. Kissinger as dr. Kissinger was to nixon. He was with dr. Kissinger during the peace accords in 1973. He was with president nixon in moscow during his first president ial trip there. He was there for kissingers shuttles between arabs and israelis. He was a key actor in president nixons historic trip to china. He was state Department Director of policy and planning, ambassador to the peoples republic of china and assistant secretary of state for South East Asia and Pacific Affairs part he conducted several hours of oral histories of dr. Kissinger on behalf of the Nixon Foundation. He conducted several hours of oral history on behalf of the Nixon Foundation and the collection of in
Winston lord talks about the Nixon Administrations Foreign Policy approach. He is the author of kissinger on kissinger reflections on diplomacy, grand strategy, and leadership. Mr. Lord describes president nixons relationship with his secretary of state Henry Kissinger and how it was instrumental in developing Foreign Policy strategies. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. Nixonith the richard foundation. Before we introduce our distinguished speaker this evening, i wanted to mention a couple of special guest. Distinguished speakers daughter here and her husband. , the wifetsy hewitt of newly elected hugh hewitt. Our distinguished speaker was to dr. Kissinger as dr. Kissinger was to nixon. He was with dr. Kissinger during the peace accords in 1973. He was with president nixon in moscow during his first president ial trip there. He was there for kissingers shuttles between arabs and israelis. He was a key act your and president nixons historic trip to china he was a key actor in presiden
Governor pete wilson served as one of the four eulogists at president nixons funeral. Wilson is a marine, u. S. Marine and a graduate of Yale University and Berkeley College of law. He first became acquainted with Richard Nixon while work object 1962 Gubernatorial Campaign as an advance man. Fwas nixon who urge and inspired the wilson to service. Before serve as senator as governor he was a california state assemblyman and then mayor of san diego. He was mayor of san diego for 12 years. 3 of those years overlap with the nixon presidency. He transformed the city in part by working with president nixon to bring millions of federal tax dollars back to state and local government, bricking decisionmaking power closer tote people. This is truly a testament to democracy in america. Governor wilson will be in conversation with dr. Frank gannon. In 1971, gannon served as i white house fellow in the Nixon Administration and went ton serve in the domestic counsel and in the White House Press offi
Covered the coverup trial. I understand people were convicted. But you need to understand that lawyers, lawyers donts play fair. They argue two things. They can argue, look, the person didnt do the crime. The person wasnt guilty. But usually in a political scandal the argument is there wasnt enough proof to find them guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Very high standard. Its not theyre blameless, its not theyre innocent. But we say wed rather let 100 guilty go free than convict one innocent man. So were were loading it to a very high standard. The other thing that lawyers argue, which the public sometimes has trouble with, is procedure. If you didnt get that evidence into the courtroom properly, then it cant come in. If you didnt share exculpatory information properly with defense, those are procedural violations which can equally invalidate a verdict. And im happy to argue both. So, thats thats kind of what were going to go through. One word from last week. Last week was the allure of