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Of concern. It is especially good and too late to introduce Randy Boyagoda author of Randy Boyagoda mitt mac Richard John Neuhaus. Tonight randy has agreed to be interviewed so is my pleasure to welcome both of them. Thank you. [applause] Randy Boyagoda a novelist writing about Richard John Neuhaus how did we get here . Guest first of all the great question i started perking on this book in some ways in 2009 of approach to a profile for him. It was an essay that argued here is the most influential canadian born that none of you have ever heard of. So then at that point i was in the midst of a terrible unreadable academic monograph and to be rescued from the project relies it really was a story about a man in his involvement and i thought your is a story that needs telling. But then i presume after the biography lot of people could write the biography. Then his very good friend who i knew from a shared coincidence because my wife went to college with his daughter. Especially for our aud
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Former division chief of the cia office of soviet affairs argues that our current level of spending on defense is excessive and is making us less secure. This 45 Minute Program is next on book tv. Thank you for that introduction and for the invitation to come out here to discuss the book. Let me say a few things on why i wrote the book in the first place. Several years ago, bob gates the secretary of defense noted before he announced he was going to leave the administration that he was going to go back to the state of washington. This is someone i followed closely over the years. I testified against him in 1991 when he was nominated to be the cia director. And as an obama supporter of course i was shocked to find out who was crowned be kept on as obama secretary of defense but when he told people i found interesting and was the major reason i wanted to write this book and what he said was we are moving towards a smaller military that will do fewer things and be able to go fewer places