Taking place of the george w. Bush president ial library in dallas, this is one hour in 20 minutes. One of the most striking features of president ial transitions is the bipartisanship that prevails among government officials in congress who read the transition laws. The president and the white house staff who set the direction of planning and departments and agencies that carried out the policies. It was not always the case. When the 1952, president truman wanted to bring to the white house but the republican and democratic president ial nominees to meet with his cabinet and white house staff members, he met with the partisan divide. He wanted them to come in because he found when he came into office he was unprepared. He came in january of 1945, roosevelt died in april and truman knew nothing of the atomic bomb. Seated by that experience, he wanted to bring people so they could understand what was ahead of them. Adlai stevenson accepted but general eisenhower turned down trumans invi
They would grow a beard if they thought it would help them win an election and they would not change their socks if they thought it would help them win the election and the transition went against that. It is now commonplace for people to think that it is the responsible thing to do to measure the drapes and figure out what they would do if they managed to prevail. And now the job of the transition project is to convince people that measuring the drapes and preparing to leave is the new equivalent of not changing your socks. Transition into todays topic for the panel. What it panel was about was like to transition the white house and this group of people have all walked into the white house on day one but another interesting aspect of the three people is that they have all walked out of the white house before the president walked out and to the executive branch where the mission of the administration also goes on. This panel will be a bit about walking into the building and what that e
Was talking about. So that made the conundrum period youre talking about much easier for our crowd because, we had the agenda in a 300 page book that people had internalized. People those who had worked for the campaign. We had the game plan set out for us and the reason i say that is a blessing, that we were blessed and having to run the campaign is that it made the george w. Bush administration unusually well prepared to govern and the said development and a lot of and are campaigning now is that policy does nothing to be that important and i think what we need to find is a way back, i dont think a particularly helps of the country thinks it is candidate is not bright. We need to find a way back to a mode of campaigning and politics where the candidates with the agendas and the agendas that suggested people, and what the people do in the first hundred days is what the country wants done. I think that is good be critical for our politics Going Forward. You could say that the most impo
And actions undertaken during the transition period. Led the president bush most determined transition out of office that we have experienced. He began the transition cycle in 2007 in discussions with his chief of staff, josh bolten, who lead that effort. Closed the circle that truman proposed to structure by having representatives of the incoming and outgoing chief executives meet well before the election. He brought together representatives of the two candidates in the white house in july, almost too much fire to the 2008 party conventions. , lead theon transition as executive director for president bush into office in 2001, clay johnson was the deputy for management at the office of management and budget and was the department and agency planning, gathering information for a new team. He is going to be on our second panel. Equally important in the 2008 transition was interest in making use of these administration preparations by those leading the transition effort for senator and th
Auction task force. Mr. Epstein, what does that mean . Guest thank you, peter. Im happy to be here. I am the head of the task force at the fcc which is responsible for implementing the incentive auction which is a firsttimeever auction at the fcc for spectrum. Host and the incentive auction is the auction, the spectrum auctions involving the broadcasters, correct . Guest indeed, it is. It is whats called a twosided auction which for the very first time will acquire spectrum from broadcasters in a socalled reverse auction and then turn around, repackage it and make it available to the wirelessc carriers9jz a forward auction. So it is a backtoback auction, a reverse auction and a forwardq auction. Host well, two followups to that. The fcc has set march of 2016 as the date for the incentive auctions to happen. A, will that date hold and, b, how long have you been working on this . Guest the auction commences on march 29th, 2016, and we do intend to hold to that date. All the commissioner