Everybody for joining us. Thank you for the council on Global Affairs. We will be Live Streaming this evening. For those of you that cannot stay off of twitter. During the discussion, we have a few hashtags that we can use tonight. Also, hashtag at 70. With that i would like to welcome my panel. Lets just jump right into her. We have with this the last close to two decade experience covering and handling some of the biggest issues in world affairs. I am sitting with for the people that i would reach out to all the time for insights and thoughts. I cannot say that about many of them. Really, there is no one better to speak about in the milestone of the Nato Alliance. Im going to ask each of the ambassadors to start off. How it was brought home to them by their unique issues. And a little bit of the reflections of what it meant to them. Want to start. Good evening everybody. I want to thank them. They have done such a great job. It really is an internationally known present. Because of h
Im not going to give away all of this stuff, but the most consequential question is what happens with vietnam and civil rights. And what about the 22nd approach is . They can be a huge debate. The conservatives will tell you that he ran as a hawk and he often said that we are not going to leave vietnam than we would have the same advisers as Lyndon Johnson. The army couldnt get the troops there kennedy was on the phony, are the troops . Theyre on the way. So you have that. And in an effort to kind of bring reality some fantasy together, i construct a meeting in which most of the participants speak the words they actually spoke at one time. I just put it somewhere else. Theres a man, an unsung hero of vietnam, civil serviceman named paul, head of the vietnam working group, and in a meeting with the other big shots had the temerity from the back to say, maybe we shouldnt be there . And a couple weeks later they got rid of him. Now, kennedy was one guy what wanted as much information as p
Rev enough agents checking expense accounts. Want government to go back to he tell bills to fine out who was with you . These are real quotes. Now, if the kens were prepared to do this to stop a steel price hike, what they do to keep the presidency in their hands . Some of you know i worked for Robert Kennedy. No public figure i admired more. But this this dark side. They get away with it but people know that something is up. One of those underground things that know. Its all kind of underground. Last, 1968. What happens . So here are two notions. If theres no war in vietnam, then Richard Nixons most powerful argument for the presidency i know the world, i know the soviet union, i can bring peace to vietnam is irrelevant, and the republicans can find somebody who could actually win elections, say the governorship of california by a million votes. Reagan made a very lame last minute bid for the nomination. Take away the vietnam war, nixons strong point, and i realize the idea of a first
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