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In the green room, julius went up to Leland Melvin, Leland Melvin, originally played foot pal for the detroit lions. The guy is enormous. Julius is not a big guy. And he is there, talking to him and theyre talking about this and talking about florida and stuff. Julius says to him, he says, you know, and julius had told this story about first day of the job, no one would shake my hand, ku klux klan, all this, and he says to Leland Melvin, you astronauts, youre the bravest people i ever met. And L...

I think you would be the perp to do the person to do that. Ill hang up and listen to you. Guest no question, he was my hero on the brooklyn dodgers. Id like to believe it was because i was a young civil rights advocate, but i think it was more then when i was 5 or 6 years old that he would get on base, and then he would steal second and third and home and completely rattle the ore pitchers. He was the other pitchers. Exciting vital player. In fact all of my childhood i kept wanting to get his au...

Us this evening and experienced investigative reporter, eric lichtblau. Eric first got into Investigative Journalism at the Los Angeles Times where he worked for 15 years. Is final beat for the Los Angeles Times was in washington covering the Justice Department. And when he shifted to the New York Times 12 years ago, he continued covering justice. Is left him wellpositioned and very well sourced after the september 11 attack to report on the bush administrations steppedup domestic spying operati...

To you and are of practical importance. If youre in this area or youre getting into this area. Basically, i want to cover not each to the same extent, but five different areas. The lobbying disclosure act, you already have some familiarity with with the previous presentations and particularly professor therbers presentation now. The registration act. The ethics rules, i know you touched on to some extent in the prior session. Revolving door, again, professor therber talked about some of the refo...

Screeria nigeria. Te. And the house ways and Means Committee looks at the state of the u. S. Economy. Last month the white house announced anjfyt agreement with cuba that includes steps to ease a trade embargo against the caribbean nation. Experts on International Trade and advocates for increased commercial ties to cuba discuss the next steps for imageak u. S. cuban relations. This discussion hosted by the washington International Trade association is an hour and a half. Good morning, everybody...

Central asia here at the Hudson Institute and it is a pleasure for me to host a market discussion on the hundred year by Michael Paul Sperry is a senior fellow and director for chinese strategy at the Hudson Institute and a distinguished defense policy, highranking Government Official and numerous books and china. He served under the Ronald Reagan and george w. Bush administrations. The book which i recommend to everyone in the audience preferably a factually since its founding has a longterm go...

Simple world to American Foreign policy since americas preeminence after the Second World War and based on a very simple binary. Who can we bomb . Who can retake out to lunch . So china is a unique country because they went from being a country that belonged on the two bomb list to take out to lunch list. And it has become a lunch so therefore it has become far more interesting. Before we get started with michaels comment and i am questionandanswer with him and then open it to questions and answ...

Michael pillsbury director of the hutson Institutes Center on chinese strategy argues that china has a secret plan to supplant the u. S. As the Worlds Largest superpower by 2049. He makes the case in his book, the hundredyear marathon. He recently talked about his book at the hutson institute in washington d. C. This is an our and a half. Good afternoon. I hope all of you can hear me. I am Husain Haqqani the director for south and central asia here at the Hudson Institute and its a pleasure for ...

Year marathon the book by Michael Pillsbury who is now a senior fellow and director for chinese strategy here at the out son institute. He is a distinguished defense policy adviser, former highranking Government Official and author of numerous books and reports on china. He served under the reagan and george h. W. Bush administrations. The book which i commend to everyone in the audience, preferably properly bought in hard cover, paid for, thats the way one helps fellow authors. Actually how the...

As the more popular explanations about why we havent seen democracy in the middle east. So lets start with the popular explanation. Often times people say that theres something unique about the religion of islam or the culture of islam that has prevented true democracy in the region. So this is something that i engage with seriously in the book and first of all i argue well probably some truth to that but lets look at the empirical record. Look at the number of muslim Countries Worldwide inside ...