Peculiar way we count the two nonconsecutive administrations of Grover Cleveland in the 19th century. All 44 of those president s have been males. All but two of them have been white protestant males. , of the 44, have been elected to second terms, which is a room entry indicator of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives beginning in the 18th century have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached and two of those in the lifetime of many people here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that, i mean the president is electedne of the 536 officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, and theers of congress, president and Vice President im treating as a single click on entity. So the president is one of 536
Of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassination. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to of the size most, is the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and the im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 536 other federal elected officials, im reminded of a quip by the journalist theodore white, who wrote several books on president ial elections beginning in
Which is some kind of a rudimentary indicator of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassinated. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to emphasize the most is simply the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single political entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 535 other federal elected officials, im reminded of a quip by the journalist theodore white, who w
Hour and a half. Thank you for joining us today for what we hope will be an informative and interesting conversation about russias information efforts. We called it in our invitation. I think we have two really different speakers. Both with extensive experience in the Intelligence Community. To my left, our first speaker, dr. Eric hazleton who is a neuroscientist, but also a former chief Technology Officer at the National Security agency. I got that correct, i hope. And also a recipient of the National Intelligence distinguished service medal. Someone with really very extensive experience at the intersection of technology and intelligence, both in the private sector and also in government. To my right, we have my new colleague george bibiwho is the director of the National Intelligence center. A career intelligence professional, who had been an adviser to Vice President cheney on russian matters and also on intelligence issues after that the director of russian analysis at the cen fede
Thank you very much for joining us. Why dont we get started. Im paul saunders, the executive director of the center for the national interest. Thank you very much, all of you, for joining us today for what we hope will be an informative and interesting conversation about russias information efforts. To apply left, our first speaker, dr. Eric hazelteen, who is a in oneuro scientist, also former chief Technology Officer at the National Security agency. I got that correct, i hope. And also a recipient of the National Intelligence distinguished service medal. Someone with really very extensive experience at the intersection of technology and intelligence, both in the private sector and also in government. To my right, we have my new colleague, george bee bibi, who is the director of the National Intelligence center. A career intelligence professional, who had been an adviser to Vice President cheney on russian matters and also on intelligence issues. After that, the director of russian ana