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Better get started right away. [laughter] well, good evening, again. For those of you that i have not met, my name is joanne drake, and i serve as chief Administrative Officer for the Ronald Reagan foundation and institute. I want to welcome you all here. It is our tradition here that in honor of our men and women who wear the uniform of this country around the world, we ask that you stand and join us in the pledge to the flag, and i will ask that you remain standing in a moment of silence in ho...

I was so late, i figured i better get started first. [laughter] well, good evening again. For those of you i have not met, my name is joanne drake and i serve as chief Administrative Officer for the Ronald Reagan foundation and institute. I want to welcome you all here. It is our tradition here that in honor of our men and women who wear the uniform of this country around the world, we ask that you stand and join us in the pledge to the flag and i ask that you remain standing in a moment of sile...

Would you help me in thanking our three winners today. American history tv with a look at journalism history. At 8 00 p. M. , women reporters in vietnam. A new exhibit reporting vietnam, the museum hosts a discussion with women who covered the war. At 9 20 p. M. , we marked the 150e anniversary of the nation, one of the oldest magazines in america. We have interviews. Journalism history on American History tv, 8 00 p. M. Herein on cspan3. For the weekend webs here are a few book tv special progr...

Oh, well, then i am preaching to the choir. I was going to tell you, i was looking at the Pulitzer Prize winners announced and there are five books nominated or that won Pulitzer Prizes. I was talking to frank reese, our partner in this, and i understand you know frank, we only have three of those five to show. And one of those was poetry and we dont do a whole lot of poetry. I told him we better do better this next year and get all five. Chris whipple is no stranger to awards. He is a filmmaker...

Oh, well, then i am preaching to the choir. I was going to tell you, i was looking at the Pulitzer Prize winners announced and there are five books nominated or that won Pulitzer Prizes. I was talking to frank reese, our partner in this, and i understand you know frank, we only have three of those five to show. And one of those was poetry and we dont do a whole lot of poetry. I told him we better do better this next year and get all five. Chris whipple is no stranger to awards. He is a filmmaker...

His 2012 book, private empire, exxon mobil and amend in america, power is a study is of the elio chime in. Im please to have steve cole at this table, welcome. Steve thank you. I can imagine they said this, it is an exciting time, i cannot remember a more exciting 10. To be looking at what is happening in the world, to be a journalist. It is exciting to be at a journalism school, all these young reporters going out into this environment, trying to figure out how to do their job professionally. I...

His 2012 book, private empire, exxon mobil and amend in america, power is a study is of the elio chime in. Im please to have steve cole at this table, welcome. Steve thank you. I can imagine they said this, it is an exciting time, i cannot remember a more exciting 10. To be looking at what is happening in the world, to be a journalist. It is exciting to be at a journalism school, all these young reporters going out into this environment, trying to figure out how to do their job professionally. I...

Exxon mobil and American Power is the study of the oil giant and its role in world affairs. I am pleased to have steve coll back at this table, welcome. Steve thank you. Charlie i can imagine they said this, it is an exciting time, i cannot remember a more exciting time. To be looking at what is happening in the world, to be a journalist. Steve it is exciting to be at a journalism school, all these young reporters going out into this environment, trying to figure out how to do their job professi...

Thank you, thank you all very much. And i welcome all of you to our final forum of our lecture series this year. Our theme as you all know is looking at 100 years since world war 1, 2014, 1914, an awful lot of history has occurred during that time. And to onanalyze the changes th have been made, we looked at war and peace and the changes in that arena, we have looked at government and we have also looked at the issue of freedom versus security. Tonight were going to look at the president of the ...

The most important Strategic Initiative of any president over the last 40, 50 years, it was the strategic triangle of nixon and kissinger to allow the United States to build better relations with both china and the soviet union than they had with each other. And it was cia intelligence that provided the impetus to suggest that we could do this and as a result the soviet union would have to engage us which they did in terms of the treaty of berlin and the arms control agreements and we would end ...