The white house is still there. I think about the wonderful times we had. And 40 miles a week which is a lot. Thinking about the good times that we had and how thankful i am now to have the superb bipartisan support existed in the seventies. Is there republican in the congress or senate that you enjoyed working with that you became friends with . Howard baker from tennessee was a minority leader and was a great personal friend of mine i got wonderful cooperation from the republican side and a minority leader the house of representatives also a great supporter of mine so during the last couple of years i was in the white house so they took away a lot of very liberal democrats with a moderate and conservative democrats and republicans. What about sam nunn . That is very important. He was a young senator then and was my floor leader on some of the key issues applied to nuclear power. He was very knowledgeable about it and working his way up to be chairman later on of the Defense Committee
Fellow for International Studies here at stanford. Going to discuss the brandnew booking see the title on their slide on your screen, the button the Nuclear Arms Race for president ial power which puts readers on the frontline of Nuclear History and offers policy prescription for a safer future. As many of you know he served as a 19th u. S. Secretary of defense nick Clinton Administration defense policy armscontrol and along undistinguished history at stanford he is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution as well part he was the codirector of the center for International Securities in 1998 to 1993 and completed both his bachelors and masters degree in mathematics here at stanford which is particular impressive to me because i did not get into stanford either as an undergraduate or graduate. Hes now the michael and barbara emerita at stanford. Its great we can see you today, we also are thrilled to have his coauthor here. So tom is a director is 30 years of washington d. C. Experienci
History of globalization. She is a coeditor of one of the most important journals in the field, dip diplomatic history. Her publications include gis and germans, culture, gender and foreign relations, 19451949. And now, the politics of peace a global cold war history. She had it published by oxford this year. It is based on this book that she will be speaking to us today. She has also coedited two books, the human rights revolution, oxford 2012. And the oxford handbook of the cold war, published in 2013. Today, she will be speaking with us on if you want peace, or william detours on the politics of peace in the early cold war. Thank you to everyone who makes this possible for inviting me. It is a great honor to be here. I was embarrassed to admit that i had never been here and im going to try to make an effort because i realized philadelphias not that far from washington at least by train. I can do this in one day back and forth. So, writing a book as i am sure some of you in this audi
Associate professor of history at temple university. Shes a specialist in transnational culture, gender history and the history of cultural globalization. Shes a coeditor of the one of the most important journals in the field, diplomatic history. And her publications include two books. Now, of course, politics of peace published by oxford this year. Its based on this book that she will be speaking to us today. She has coedited two books, the human rights revolution, oxford 2012, and the oxford handbook of the cold war published in 2013. Today she will be speaking on, quote, if you want peace, detours on the path to politics of peace in the early cold war. You have the floor. Thank you very much. Thanks to christian, eric, to peter, rachel and everybody else who makes this possible for inviting me. Its a great honor to be here. I was embarrassed to have to admit i had never been here. Im going to try and make an effort, because i realize philadelphia is not that far from washington, at
Statement from me and from mr. Cole then well go tow our distinguished witnesses. Today the rules committee will hold a hearing to discuss how the constitution separated powers between the legislative and executive branches and how the balance of power between these branches has shifted over time. We are doing this in the hopes of finding concrete Bipartisan Solutions to better ensure congress is playing the role our nations founders envisioned. Thats a lot, i know. And while a constitutional debate may be fun for law students and legal scholars and mr. Raskin [ laughter ] the it wasnt fun when i was yeah. For the rest of us, it could feel a little in the weeds. So, so for the rest of us, let me simplify. You know, we throw around the phrase, the peoples house, a lot around here, but this really is but this really is about whether we remain the institution that our nations founders created to be the voice of the people. The constitution entrusts congress with deciding how to spend fede