in the country, because the one set of remarks on monday that he read from the white house yesterday doesn t erase the fact that what he neglected to say on saturday still caused a lot of pain for a lot of americans. that s one. the second thing, brooke, is, you got to remember what these ceos, they re mostly concerned i don t say this callously the bottom line is sort of what a ceo is all about. sure. and so they re making a calculus that their customer base, their employees, are requiring them to take this position. so, that, to me, also means they re hearing from people who sort of are voting with their pocketbook and their jobs in this moment that they need to display this kind of leadership. sure. but then you also look at it from the president s perspective. this is someone who on twitter at least says, hey, essentially, i can replace you. you re grandstanding. but at the same time, we ve seen all the ceo round table pictures, right, at the white house, i mean, dooiavid
allies in the fight. russia has not only tried to hack our elections and undermine our democracy, and vladimir putin is a war criminal and they have engaged in behavior that s very detrimental to the war community. i think that president-elect trump was a little bit aloof, if he s going to speak callously about world affairs, i think he should be brief. because who the president is matters and the president s words matter and right now this is risky business. is he turning things on their head? i believe this is good for the world order. because we have a president-elect who understands diplomacy, who is going to garner the president of our world leaders like we haven t seen in the past eight years and we re going to have someone who s going to go in there, having dealt with them and having dealt with the international skill as a successful business person. so i think his ability to
toess we were seeing. among the images we aired was one of the romney family that showed mitt romney s grandchildren, including his adopted grandson, who s african-american. given my own family history, i identify with that picture and intended to say positive things about it. whatever the intent was, the reality is that the segment proceeded in a way that was offensive. and showing the photo in that context, that segment, was poor judgment. so without reservation or qualification, i apologize to the romney family. adults who enter into public life, implicitly consent to having less privacy, but their families, especially their children, should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly. my intention was not malicious, but i broke the ground rule that families are off-limits for that i am sorry. allow me to apologize to other families formed through transracial adoption because if we suggested interracial families are in any way funny or
what does this crisis remind you of, and of course, we re not saying there is any moral equivalence. i think katrina may be the best analogy, joe. we have seen it on twitter. george stephanopoulos there. and we have seen it in print. a bush official recently told the new york times quote, the okay hes of the 2005 are erie. katrina matches to the rollout of the website. but katrina is not shorthand for bungled federal policy. it s a moment when the federal government responded callously, as 1,833 people died and tens of thousands suffered in the super dome and throughout new orleans. we can t just toss out the moral part. yes, both the response to katrina and the rollout of the aca involved presidential failure, mismanagement, and incompetence. that s not nearly enough to earn the analogy, the hand maiden of money dasty. in response to katrina, we saw a president who the new york times called, quote, casual to
how do you make committee management work? how do you make it end up getting you the outcome you want even though it was done by a committee? well, this is an imperfect, an imperfect activity. academics are very smart people, and they have a very independent mind and you can t always be assured that the outcome will come out the way you want. one of the things that i think s important in guiding an institution like a university is to differentiate clearly and to have a clear sense of what you need to get the faculty to buy into it and indeed to own as their own decision and what you can do of your own initiative as a university president or a dean of a school. and there are clear distinctions. the two prerogatives the faculty guard most callously and are embedded into the written and unwritten constitution of most universities is the faculty control curriculum and the faculty control appointments to the faculty. so you have to be very cautious about your attempt to move and have infl