My name is sarah and i am im the events director of kramer books and on behalf of both the staff im pleased to welcome you and bruce for his book jfk forgotten crisis. In the buck, he book, he shares a gripping story of the conflict that really has escaped history is attention but is really still resonates today that of the union war. He draws on the documents and details of the decisions made by jfk to send the tie the tide of an allout war and explain how the forgotten crisis is influencing the world more than half a century later. We are glad hes here to share his book. Please welcome bruce. [applause] thank you very much for that introduction and all of you for coming out tonight. I want to begin by taking you back half a century. On the morning of october 16, 1962, george bundy, john f. Kennedy National Security adviser arrived at his office in the west wing of the white house. On his desk as there was every morning there was a final prepared by the white house situation room of t
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Our speaker this morning, the former secretary of defense william perry, i first met when he was the deputy secretary of defense, and he and mrs. Perry came to korea where i was the c5j5 and i was assigned to escort them around. And i had a lot of those kinds of duties while i was assigned to korea. But it was the most pleasant experience i had and i say that honestly, to get to know these two people. And he then became our secretary of defense. And many of us that have served thought that he was one of the best secretary of defenses weve ever had. Hes currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and a freeman Foley Institute of international studies. He is the michael and barbara bavarian professor at Stanford University and serves as codirector of the Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative and preventive defense project. Please help me welcome our speaker this morning, former secretary of defense william perry. applause what a pleasure it is to be aboard this symbol of americas mille