Divisive times in American History. A time that marks the emergence of a postcivil rights racial order that defines american psyd today. Formally known as the National Advisory committee on civil disorders, president johnson establish the committee in july following violent racial confrontations in newark and detroit which left 69 people africanamericans, and city blocks burned to the ground. That summer there were more than 150 riots around the United States. Ignited byriots were incidents of Police Brutality. Of growingtime racial and Political Polarization and the retreats from the progressive reform agenda ushered in by the Civil Rights Movement and Great Society legislation or the factors were the war in vietnam, the republican sweep in the 1960 Midterm Elections, a law and a liberalismm, and insulated from the realities of black life and dismissive of lack protests after 1965 from the evolution of Martin Luther kings leadership to black power. What senator harris described as ame
Live coverage on cspan 3. The next seven months, the commissioners and staff they a probingpursued examination of conditions that fueled the riot, including visits to 20 three cities, interviews with residents and activists, and confrontation with realities invisible to most politicians and policymakers. The Kerner Commission produced a 704 page report that sold 2 million copies. We have a group or today prepared to offer insight into the report, the historical context, and significance. I will introduce them in the order in which they will present. Julian zelizer. And publicf history affairs at Princeton University cnn. News commentary on he is the author of numerous books on american political history. His recent book is a monumental study of lbjs legislative season which produced civil rights legislation, the war on poverty, and transformative initiatives. He published a new edition of the Kerner Commission report which includes an excellent introduction. Julian zelizer will conside
We are very happy to do that. As much as we love it we have been there for 15 years we look forward to our move and if you dont know next year the museum will not be 100 meters from here. Where across the mall in the plaza area in which case we actually will be able to have a new the new Museum Without having to go somewhere else. Its not going to happen for another year or so we used 2018 as our new museum and we will have the program before he do a grand opening around this time next year. Be on the lookout for that. You were given a program for this evening. Definitely take a look at it. Includes a communique for the offense we have at the museum. This is an example with the partnership of the news york times for the two events throughout the spring. Theres a lot of stuff going all the way through the end of march march. One of the highlights of the spring as a Development Event we are doing later this month with the former director of National Intelligence jim clapper who has been
I will post some questions to the group. We will say the last part of our we will save the last part of our time in the session for questions from the audience save the last part of our time in the session for questions from the audience. Let me quickly introduce our group. We have the Principal Assistant deputy administrator at nsa, where he runs the defense program. Anita is the acting system secretary of state from the bureau arms and control. I am very pleased that we could gather this group here and we are looking forward to this discussion. We will start with entered option and go with the following order we are going to start with greg, then we will go to phil, anita. Greg, over to you. Greg what i thought i would do in my brief remarks is give you a little more insight into the approach that 3 departments took in conducting the Nuclear Posture review over the last year. It will emphasize what general hyten said. Which is consistent with the National Defense strategy. This is a
From. [inaudible] its my pleasure to moderate this discussion with a group of folks who are prime movers in the development of the nature posture review. I will introduce them in a moment. We are not calling this a panel. Each group will give us five or ten minutes. We will get some conversation for the group going. Most of you know the group and let me introduce rob the Deputy Assistant secretary for defense for Nuclear Defense policy. Greg weaver is strategic director for staff j5. He runs the Defense Program shop and anita is the acting assistant secretary from the bureau of arms control. Im very pleased we can gather this group and we are looking forward to the discussion. As i said we will start with introductory remarks from each of our guests and then we will go in the following order. Well start with greg and go to phil, anita and rob has asked to clean up today. Thats what well do. Greg over to you. Thank you. When i thought i would do in my brief remarks is give you all a lit