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Andrew, tell us about your book, which focuses really on two days in the kennedy presidency. June 10th and june 11th, 1963. Why did you decide to write a book focused on only two days of the kennedy presidency and why did you pick those two days to focus on . Well, thank you, colleen, and its a great honor to be here with you and the White House Historical association, particularly meaningful to me because as was just said, it was founded by Jackie Kennedy and in the white house 60 years ago. I had been looking for a way into the Kennedy Administration for some time. Part of this may be hard t...

[ laughter ] but, you know, at the end of the day, you have to what is it . Theres the word hope. You hope. What was his name . Leonard cohen, the writer, leonard had something about a crack in the a crack in the sunlight or a crack in the whatever. And he said, theres something about that thats the reason we have cracks. So we can let the light through. And somewhere in people like lincoln and douglass they could let the light. Get your perfect offering, theres a crack in everything, thats how the light gets thats how the light gets in. What a perfect way to end this session. I just want to s...

Thanks for joining us today. I am tom called, director of the center for International Security and cooperation at stanford and am also a senior fellow at the institute for International Studies at stanford and we are honored to have William Perry and tom collina to discusstheir brandnew book. You can see the title on the slide at your screen. The button the new Nuclear Arms Race and president ial power which puts readers at the front row and offers policy descriptions for a safer future. As many know doctor perry served as the 19th us secretary of defense in the Clinton Administration and is ...

One of the most seminal days of my life was november 22, 1963. As an eightyearold, i learned of the assassination of president kennedy. It isnt unusual for someone like me or anyone of my generation to remember where he or she was, but it seemed to me to change something, and from he developed a fascination. As i grew up, my friends were andrested in captain kirk the new frontier and i was interested in jfk in the old frontier. Lookingdent, i had been , and as a washington correspondent as well, as a way into the kennedy story can story. There were studies, heavy amoirs, there was scarcely par...

Book, which focuses really on two days in the kennedy presidency june 10 and june 11, 1963. Why did you decide to write a book focused on only two days of the kennedy presidency and why did you pick those two days to focus on . Andrew thank you, colleen, it is a great honor to be here with you, and the White House Historical association. Particularly meaningful for me, because it was founded by Jackie Kennedy in the white house 60 years ago. I had been looking for a way into the Kennedy Administration for some time. Hard as it may be to believe, one of the most seminal days of my life was nove...