She also discusses her decision to leave the cia to become an fbi special agent, focusing on chinese counterintelligence. The International Spy museum recorded this event in february. Good evening everyone and thank you for coming out on this gloomy washington, d. C. Evening, to the International Spy museum. I am the executive director of the International Spy museum. I am excited to introduce this program with former c. I. A. Officers officer, fbi special agent, now author, tracy walder. Tracy joined the cia straight out of college and served as a staff Operations Officer the counterterrorism center, where she was responsible for tracking down terrorists and weapons of mass destruction. She went on to become an fbi special agent at the l. A. Field office, where she specialized in chinese counterintelligence operations. Tracy lives with her husband and four and a halfyearold daughter in dallas, texas. This evening, tracy will discuss her memoir, the unexpected supply unexpected spine u
The first lecture in this years series. This year, we are examining dissents opinions. Different aspects thereof. You have already been warned about your cell phones and your apple watches and so forth so i will not repeat that. But you will be in the doghouse if it goes off during the period of our evening. I also want to thank this evening our host, Justice Stephen breyer, who against all odds was able to come and introduce our speaker on the first day of a busy term. Justice breyer is one of the most faithful friends of the society. Whenever we have called on him to help us out, he has shown up and done a wonderful job. Him for taking time away from his busy schedule on first day of term. To impose too much on his time so i will abbreviate the introduction of Justice Breyer. Francisco. In san he received an a. B. From stanford. Aba from mod lang college, oxford and an ll. B. From harvard. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur goldberg of the Supreme Court of the United States d
Director of the wyoming institute for humanities research. Im excited to welcome you to the topic which is pandemics in historical perspective. Im excited to introduce the history and member of the committee who will be our moderator tonight and introduce our speaker. Please welcome. Thank you, scott, and our panelists who agreed to participate. With usu for sticking and to all of you out there tuning in and some form or another. Going to do a brief introduction and i will let them each talk for a couple minutes how their work intersects with our theme tonight. She is the author of an earlier piece of what the pandemic and teaches about the crisis. Williams we have jacob , an associate professor of history at the college of charleston. He specializes in the history of science, medicine, disease, and is working on a book that examines scientific attitudes and cultural constructions of typhoid fever. Editor of the journal of the history of medicine and allied sciences. Toi will handed ov
Good evening and welcome. Im can weinstein, resident and ceo of hunter and institute. For the condition of my voice. I really wanted to be here for the book forum for melanie kirkpatricks book thanksgiving, the holiday at the heart of the american experience. I want to thank our friends at the historic explorers club, especially the executive director and our good friend. I also want to thank the viewing audience on cspans book tv. Institute is a policy organization, we are based in washington dc. We are dedicated to voting u. S. National leadership for the sake of security, prosperity, and freedom. Most of our work is in the Public Policy space. Insecurity of work in asia. Isis,ked at fighting talked about trying to overcome the challenges of the iran deal. We this book is an outlier. We have to be thankful for many things. That isit is a book extraordinarily timely coming now at the end of what was by all accounts a very challenging election season. Whether you fell among those, i in
This is the immigration station in San Francisco. Its important for not only what happened back then in the 20th century but its timely today. Its timely because when we pick up any newspaper we see headlines like this. This is just from last week. Republicans slam obamas immigration townhall. Obama. Ill fight any attempt to reverse immigration action. Moving forward it to fix our broken immigration system. House conservatives warn boehner dont cave on immigration. U. S. Immigration dispute threatens security ob agency shutdown. Does anyone know what some of the headlines are referring to last week . What was the big debate in congress . What was the proposed shutdown . Deeg o. Therapy pausing to shutdown dhs funding because the obamas executive action referring to families. Right so ab obamas executive action protecting millions of undocumented immigrants. Undocumented immigrants, parents of undocumented immigrants who are parents of u. S. Citizens or legal residents. This would halt