Of todays lecture, to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in , if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is, if there is anything that can depress the turnout for a lecture sponsored or cosponsored by the center of president ial history, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you, you are in for a treat this evening. Thanks again for coming. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the Clement Center for southwest studies. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Starting with our friends for whom we are cosponsoring tonights event. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially bono spitz, who along for those people who ha
Thanks so much for coming. It seems particularly appropriate given the subject of todays lecture to encourage you to pretend as if you are in church and to move in, scoot in if you would, to give folks who are, not necessarily late arriving, but people who are fashionably on time room to sit. I should say that this answers an ageold question for me. Which is, if there is anything that can depress the turnout for a lecture, i think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you, you are in for a treat this evening. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the clement center. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially for those people who have coordinated all of the logistics. During my first semester at the clement center, we received an anonymous 500,000 gift in ho
Think we have the answer. Which is no. It was raining cats and dogs a few minutes ago. And i wondered, will there be people there . And sure enough, here you are. I tip my cap to all of you this evening. My name is andy graybill. I am the director of the clement center. I would like to thank the many people who helped make this evening possible. Thanks to jeff, who directs the cph. Especially for those people who have coordinated all of the logistics. During my first semester at the clement center, we received an anonymous 500,000 gift in honor of the governor who had died earlier that year. The donor wanted to hear our ideas first about how we put those funds to use before they were transmitted. Naturally, i proposed that this money be applied to my mortgage. [laughter] he passed. The benefactor liked much more the idea that we use the money to convert one of the junior postdoctoral fellowship lines to one that would support an invited senior scholar. That would cost more and they are
Conversations] good evening everyone. I would like to welcome all of you to tonights on the record meeting. The Senior Vice President and director of studies here at the council. It is my great honor and pleasure to introduce tonights guest of honor Elliot Abrams now i think its safe to say that elliott is the appended me of the blogger that we love here at the council on foreign relations. Elliotts formal title is senior fellow for middle eastern studies. That only begins to explore his great range and depth on Foreign Policy. With the practical part of it. They have served in a variety of government positions. They are relevant to our discussion tonight. He was assistant secretary of state. As well as assistant secretary of state for Interamerican Affairs both during the reagan administration. And he served as Deputy Deputy assistant to the president and Deputy National security adviser in the George W Bush and menstruation. He is also an expert in human rights. He is worked on this