Good afternoon. Welcome to the washington institute. Im delighted to welcome you all to the postlabor day gathering, a celebration, celebration of the publication of this this timely, important new book by my colleagues. When youre a leader and you get your face chiseled into Mount Rushmore or your picture on a coin, its not because you did nothing during your time in office. Its not because you waited out the term. Its because you took Big Decisions that affected the fate of your nation, often at moments of great crisis. Often decisions that were unpopular or that risked that this would be your last term in office. But decisions that reflected your vision about the direction of your nation and your people. And if you made it to rushmore or if you made it on a coin, its because decades later your people looked back and said, thank you for having the boldness, for having the courage to take those decisions. Israel today is remarkably a strong, selfconfident country for many reasons far
Good afternoon and welcome to the Washington Institute im delighted to welcome youut all to this post labor day gathering, a celebration of the publication of this timely, important new book by my colleagues. When you are a leader and you get your face chiseled into Mount Rushmore is not because you did nothing during your time in office. Or you waited out the term, it is because those were the decisions that affected the fate of the nation often at moments of great crisis often decisions that were unpopular or that risked this would be your last from an office. But decisions that reflected your vision of the vision of the people and if you made it to rushmore or on a coin it is n because decades later your people look back and said thank you. To have the boldness and courage to take those decisions and remarkably a strong selfconfident country for many reasons its too complicated to go into them just for this event but to be blessed with rushmore leadership from the founding of the st
Now he compares the constitutional model of the United States and the uk. Please welcome good evening, when the french Political Writer visited the United States in the 1930s, 1830s, forgive me. One of the things that struck him most forcibly was the space occupied by employers in the public life of the nation. In his classic account of early american democracy they suggest is that lawyers task as exceeded of the old landed aristocracy. They share the habits and above all they shared contempt for popular opinion. The more we reflect on all that occurs in the United States the more we will find that the lawyers as a form the most powerful if not for the democratic element in the constitution. There isnt that something that doesnt resolve itself through a judicial question. There is only one other country that they could think of where it enjoyed a comfortable influence over Public Affairs and that country was written. A new addition for the day would probably make the same point. The tw
we have an important program for you today with the president of the united states, joseph r. biden. i sat down with the president in the roosevelt room of the white house on friday for an exclusive president biden is headed to europe for a trip that will take him to lithuania for nato s summit. holding nato together is really critical. it has been 500 days since russia invaded ukraine. is there any sign of an end to this war? and will nato offer ukraine membership? also, is there a thaw in relations with china or are we going to see an even more intense rivalry? and when can bibi netanyahu expect an invitation to the white house? all this in a special interview with america s 46th president. i think we have enormous opportunities, and i just want to finish the job. i ll bring you my take later in the show, but first, president biden is headed to europe today for a five-day, three-country tour. the main focus of which will be a stock in lithuania for n
through a resolution focused on getting humanitarian aid into gaza, but it stops short of calling for a cease fire. we will have the latest from our correspondent in new york and have all the reaction for you, including from a un human rights representative working on the ground in gaza. also on the programme tonight, we ll take stock of the uk economy after poor figures raise fears of a recession in 202a. and what happens when you need to take out the trash when you live in space? we ll look at the complicated operation under way today to clear the junk on the international space station. good evening. the united nations security council has passed a resolution aiming to get more aid into gaza, but which stops short of calling for an immediate truce. this was the moment the vote came in. 13 in favour and two abstentions from permanent members the us and russia but, crucially, no votes against, no veto. so after multiple attempts to come to an agreement on action after th