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Weekend, on cspan 3. To join the conversation, like us on facebook at cspan history. Next on the president s how do make decisions, whether it is firing cabinet officials or going to war . We will hear from advisers to president s Ronald Reagan, bill clinton, george w. Bush, and barack obama. Former secretary of defense leon panetta moderated the discussion. Thank you. [applause] thank you very much, and i welcome all of you to the final forum of our lecture series this year. I think, as you all know, we are looking at 100 years since world war i, 2014 to 1914, an awful lot of history. The cha...

Tonight, we are going to take a look at the president of the United States and how president s make decisions, and residents, frankly, influence all of those other areas that we just talked about. The president of the United States has today assumed incredible responsibilities and facing incredible pressures in that position. Since 1914, we have had 17 president s of the United States, all of whom, you know, will have various places in history. We have gone from wilson to harding, truman to eisenhower and nixon, kennedy to carter and reagan, johnson to clinton, bush, and obama. What can we lea...

First historian to perform the first scholarly study of the fort administration. He First Edition of his book was published some 19 years ago by the University Press of kansas. It is still in print. Report, on its fourth printing. Of course, being a pioneer has its disadvantages. In the earlyhat days, he was often asked if his interest in the ford presidency was a function of the fact that all the more interesting president s had been taken. Thoughts of this nature do a disservice to bobs scholarship. While ford is generally remembered as a genuinely honest man who did his best to heal the cou...

With you today. One of them was who is your personal hero . Mine was jim brady. One was a personal connection. Anyone with any objective research would find that we were the last of the press secretaries who shared the hollywood good looks and fashion sense that very often you see in the movies. He is a hero not because of what happened to him. People faced tragedy in the lives. He is a hero because of what he did with it. We live in a very partisan and difficult town right now. It is hard to believe that we can find Common Ground on issues that arent that hard. Jim and sarah got things done. ...

[no audio] [applause] [applause] welcome. We are greeting you as jim brady would greet you, with an irish blessing. We begin the service to celebrate his life. May the road rise up to me to, may the wind be ever at your back. May the sunshine warm up on your one, and the rains fall soft your fields. It until we meet again, may god hold you in the palm of his hand. Have walls forys the wind and a roof for the rain. You, those youer love near you, and all your heart might desire. May Saint Patrick guard you wherever you go and guide you in whatever you do. Protection be a blessing to always. Goo...