It is my pleasure to welcome you for discussion of this book. The big stick the limits of soft power and the necessity of military force. What we are going to do is the author should have the last word even if he doesnt, we will give him the first turn to my colleague, and residents and counselor for budget chair assessments. Sounding conspiratorial here. Henry kissinger, director of Global Affairs for his comments. Then we will turn to the other, eliot cohen and open the floor to you for your questions and go from there. With no further ado, eliot cohen. Great to be here. Important that every book event remember it is to sell books. A copy of the big stick, television audience, a very important book. On groundhog day we are meeting and that is very apropos. By the way those who dont know Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow, we are in for another six weeks of winter. The movie groundhog day is one of my favorite movies. Those who have seen it know that bill murray wakes up every day and i
And how everyday items and occurrences can help explain physics. That all happens this weekend on booktv, 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, television for serious readers. Marlene trestman, your other of fair labor lawyer the remarkable life of new deal attorney and Supreme Court advocate bessie margolin. Tell me about her. I would love to. Bessie was born in a jewish orphanage in new orleans that changed her life profoundly with social justice values. I like to say before their was a notorious are bg as Justice Ginsburg is affectionately known there was an audacious bessie margolin. We are the first stable act and the equal pay act, she championed those laws in her 30 years as an associate solicitor at the Labor Department and she was a tour to me. Host what were the significant cases she was involved in as well as the fair labor act . Guest all her time at the Labor Department was spent on fair labor standards act, but it was the body of work that caused chief Justice Earl Wa