And we begin with breaking news, the u. S. Air force reports one of its helicopters have crashed in the united kingdom. There are reports of four people killed. The helicopter went down during a Training Mission on the east coast of great britain. Local police have cordoned off a quarter mile area around the scene, which is near an u. S. Air base. More on this story coming up. Well try to reach phil ittner for the very latest. The deep freeze has turned deadly, 11 people have died. People who have had to go outside today did everything they could, well, everything they could think of to stay warm, including lots of layers. A lot of people have been stranded by the cold as flights have been canceled, cars and trains have gotten stuck. Jonathan betz is live for us now at New York Penn station. Jonathan, boy, how is this deep freeze impacting travel for people across the country . Yeah, a lot of people impacted, tony. Frankly, frozen in their tracks, whether at train stations or airports
Can goes to show how you can make progress in one election and then a few years later the lack of followup or violence can restock and you can have a mess again. So, you know, it is very, very difficult to set the country on a path when we have fixed it and now they know how to run elections and it is just going to work. In candidate has been up and down with election monitoring. It is not the election monitors fault to say, but it is a good example of where they have been very worried about being critical because of the violent potential. If they come out and condemn the elections. What do you teach here at duke . Guest enter action the Public Policy, policy analysis, i help undergraduates right thesis. And that teach these types of topics like tools of international pressure, external actors to promote domestic reforms and other countries. Host my maturing democracy, you read you can float anywhere in the world. Why is that . Guest well, because i am a danish citizen, and danish laws
So this is a panel where we going to spend some time each of our is going to spend about five or 10 minutes introducing a particular president ial transition and highlight a few of the big takeaway interesting points, Lessons Learned. And so well go im going to im going to we wont go in program order. Were actually going to go and in Chronological Order of the elections that theyre going to be highlighting and then do that. About 50 minutes or so. And then open it up for discussion and conversation and questions. So so let me im going to go forth and im going to introduce everyone at the top. And then we will they will go in turn. So im going to introduce folks in the in the order in which they are going to speak. So first, we are going to have lindsey stravinsky, who is a senior fellow at center for president ial history at Southern Methodist methodist university. She is a historian of the presidency, political culture and the government, especially the president s cabinet. Her first
And participant in president ial administrations and transitions and an adjunct professor at the tech school of business at dartmouth. In 2021, he served in the biden administration, ceo of the u. S. International development corporation. Margaret previously served as director of the Nonprofit Center for president ial transition, where he worked for the Biden Transition Team on transition planning efforts. He also spent 12 years as managing director of the Carlyle Group and held several positions in the clinton administration. David will bring us closer very close to the present day by discussing the 2020 transition. And with that, i will turn over to dr. Stravinsky. Well, thank you all so much for being im very excited about this panel, which i had the privilege to put together. And it was really just an excuse to talk about the things that im working on and able to find people who were interested in many of the same topics. Im sure all of you recall your history textbook lesson on el
Going to we wont go in program order. Were actually going to go and in Chronological Order of the elections that theyre going to be highlighting and then do that. About 50 minutes or so. And then open it up for discussion and conversation and questions. So so let me im going to go forth and im going to introduce everyone at the top. And then we will they will go in turn. So im going to introduce folks in the in the order in which they are going to speak. So first, we are going to have lindsey stravinsky, who is a senior fellow at center for president ial history at Southern Methodist methodist university. She is a historian of the presidency, political culture and the government, especially the president s cabinet. Her first book, the cabinet, George Washington and the creation of an american institution, was published by the belknap press. Harvard University Press in 2020, and it is now out in paperback. Her next book, an honest man the inimitable presidency of john adams, is under co