Members and guests tonight had the honor of introducing a friend and academic colleague who happens to be a best selling author, call miss, speaker, commentator, senior Level Management strategists are key has worked with president s from here at home to south asia to iraq and for more than 20 years our speaker has provided strategic and Crisis Committee k should counsel to companies, policy organizations, government agencies, not for profits, advocacy campaigns and grassroots groups. He is served in many roles including executive director of the Republican Party in new york state, advisor to the us chief of protocol at the vatican, planner to the department of state of former president s bush and clinton to the tsunami ravaged south asia and director of communications for the Environment Protection agency. Our speaker is currently an adjunct professor. A charter member of the board of advisors at college of liberal arts and sciences and a opinion contributor to forbes in the hopes of
Why is it taking so long to get the sewage system fixed and baghdad . Why is it taking so long to get the lights back on . There is this sense of impatience that you are laughing i assume because how ridiculous it was and what i would say to the reporter was work, take us out of baghdad. Take us out of baghdad and put us in columbus, ohio. How long would it take you to build a power plant in this, ohio under the best circumstances imaginable . Five years on the lowend . I mean, we are in new york city and there are projects that you invest in that developers are investing in that started investing 10 years ago and they are still not done, but according to the Mainstream Press we were supposed to have everything fixed and that was what they wanted, the narrative they wanted to try to drive and they did successfully. The white house for its part after what happened with that Mission Accomplished matter really needed to redouble its efforts to re explained people in everywhere could that
The end of the war. The summer of 1978 to the summer of 1971. The experience stuck with me iss because of anything experienced as a combat platoon leader, but what i saw in terms of the decay and deterioration of the army in which i was serving. Oft gave me an appreciation the terrible effects of war. What was your career like . How long were you in the army . 23 years. I served until 1992. It was a year in vietnam early on. They were mypart, experiences of a serving officer at the latter part of the cold war. We thought we existed to be prepared to fight world war iii and that our readiness to do that to prevent world war iii from happening. I spent seven years in germany. Most of the rest of the time in stateside units that would have germany in the event of a crisis. 23 years in the service and finished as a colonel. Why did you in the first place go to west point . What was the drive for you and where were you raised . I was raised in the u. S. I was born in illinois and grew up in
Vietnam was toward the end of the war. Summer of 70 to summer of 71. The experience stuck with me less because of anything i experienced as a combat platoon leader, but from what i saw in terms of the it gave me an idea of the terrible effects of long war. How long were you in the army . 15 years. We served until 1992. It was a year in vietnam early on. But for the most part, i was my experiences were those of a serving officer in the latter part of the cold war. We thought that we existed to be prepared, to fight world war iii, and that our ready to do that would prevent world war iii from happening. So i spent seven years in germany and most of the rest of the time in stateside units that would have deployed to germany in the event of a crisis. It was a time that patriotism equated to seeing military service. As not simply honorable but almost a part of what it meant to be a citizen. I grew up in that environment. When it came time to go to college, i had choices. And i think i went
As not simply honorable but almost a part of what it meant to be a citizen. I grew up in that environment. When it came time to go to college, i had choices. And i think i went to west point, not because i thought i was going to be a career officer, but because i was attracted to what they had to offer and thought i would save my parents some money by paying for my education. They paid for you go there too, slight. Its a stiphon. Its spending money, more than spending money, yes . Where did you grow up in illinois and indiana . I was in normal, illinois. My dad graduated from medical school, he served in the army for a year as an intern in hawaii. And when we return from hawaii in 1954, we returned to where he grew up in the northwest corner of indiana, around east chicago and hammond. Her years, total years from her freshman year at the west point to the time you got out of the service, what were those years. 1965. So i became a cadet in the summer when we were ratcheting up the comba