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Andrew krepinevich and barry watts talk about their book at the pentagons office and the pentagons think tank from 1973 to 2015. The coauthors are former members of marshalls staff. This event was held at the nixon president ial library and museum in yorba linda california. [applause] tonights discussion is that Andrew Marshall who served from nixon to obama. He retired january at the ripe age of 93 years old. For his pioneering work called the hidden hand before and behind American Foreign poli...

Things thats going on in our approach to world affairs. And i think it recognizes that weve made the transition from 21st century problem solving to 21st century problem solving. The 20th century was kind of a bipolar century. The 21st century is obviously multipolar. Globalization is a reality. Its on a course of diversions, because one of the sectors that is universally admired and recognized for what it does is the American Private sector. And when you think about the developing world and the...

Here are a few of the book festivals we will be covering on book tv. We will visit maryland for live coverage of the gaithersburg book festival with congressman tom davis and martin frost. We will close out may at book expo america where the industry showcases their upcoming books. And we are live for the printers row literature fest including our indepth program with glitter prizewinning author Lawrence Wright and your phone calls. Vice President Biden delivered remarks thursday evening at isra...

To get democratic members of congress to give you the backing you need to get i through . I think im right thats more of a question at the moment than it is republican. Ms. Atkinson well, thanks very much, fred, and i want to say even though these are not formal remarks, thanks for your leadership in having this session and with all these terrific panel members. I believe this is a really important moment. Of course for the president and the president s legacy, but more important, for america an...

See the light from the other side of the arch, thats the moment of, yes, it works. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station ...

See the light from the other side of the arch, thats the moment of, yes, it works. Woodruff those are just some of the stories were covering on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by supported by the john d. And catherine t. Macarthur foundation. Committed to building a more just, verdant and peaceful world. More information at macfound. Org this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station ...

Shiller and auto sales. The nikkei closed up 56 . The best performance in 41 years. This final shortened trading week, all the major indices coming off big gains last week. As we look back on this great year for the equity markets, did 2003 end up stealing gains from 2014. Well take a closer look. But this year was not a good one for gold. The precious metal having its worst year in more than three decades breaking a 12year winning streak. Google and apple are expanding their fight for tech supr...

Negotiation that has to take place. And it needs to involve people who represent several different points of view, both from within the ruling party and outside. And that observation brings me to mr. Pendergast. After the Security Councils approval of additional peacekeeping troops for south sudan last month, you commented that the political and diplomatic elements of International Responses to most african conflicts have been slow and ineffective. Which have put more pressure on peacekeeping mi...

Security. And, lastly, and this is important particularly in light of the metcalf incident, that has been talked about here, and theyre in the early stages of this but the, they are working on working on a project to develop security, security protections, physical protections and others for substations. So thats going to be extremely critical also. Were very proud of the work that is done at the Idaho National laboratory. Like i said they are reknowned when it comes to Nuclear Energy but there ...

And the implications of the Virtual Currencies also other block chainbased applications for the future broadly and i will get into what i mean in a little bit. We are a Nonpartisan Organization that promotes constructive u. S. And european leadership in the world and who meets todays challenge is working with our allies. But we also serve a Public Education function. And i really cant tell you how many people from what i would call that traditional constituency of the Atlanta Council, which is a...