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Good morning everyone. Thank you for braving the aftermath of the cyclone bomb and the polar vortex and other new innovations. On behalf of the Brookings Center for middle east policy, welcome. I am the director. Welcome. Welcome to everyone joining us on the workings website and via cspan at home. We have an extremely important topic this morning and an excellent panel to discuss it. East policy on interests and what the u. S. Should do in terms of immediate policy and pursuing its interest, and we often have debates what the u. S. Should do in terms of its values promoting its vision of the ...

Visited bell labs. Named for alexander or graham bell, inventer of the telephone. The labs were created by at t. Theyre now owned by nokia, a Finnish Telecommunications company. We talked with bell labs president Marcus Weldon at the labs headquarters in new jersey. Host so, Marcus Weldon, where are we . Guest were at bell labs. The esteemed historical institution. But id like to say not just historical, in fact, very present and we like to think or very relevant to the future as well. Its an institution that has invented just about every technology, a system that led to lennox and thats what ...

First time you ever thought about writing a book about this man . 1989, i was contemplating a subject for a biography. I am a field fiction writer and poet. I could not create, but i could explore and explain. I was talking with a friend of mine who said i keep running across his name. Some professor back in 1970 published the first of what was supposed to be a twovolume of Arthur Vandenberg. The world does not need to w o two biographies of vandenberg. My friend said i have to thought my agenda. Why dont you come and talk about some episode in Arthur Vandenbergs life. I gave a little lecture ...

He connected to people with that kind of language and those options, it wasnt just rhetoric about how he was going to make the country great again. Change peoples lives. Very large portion of the book is focused on his second term and you talk about the second term curse and if it had not been for the onset of the war, he might not have been reelected. You want to tell us a little bit about the dynamics in the second term . Sure. Well, the second term, he begins by making the misjudgment of trying to put across packing plan. It never went through. Is this because the Supreme Court was invalida...

Southern california Annenberg Center for communication leadership and policy. Im also president of the Public Diplomacy council. Those are two of the partners in these events. The third partner is the Public Policy alumni association. Im pleased to have the president of that organization here to also welcome you. Its my pleasure to welcome all of you. If i could take a moment to just highlight three events that many f you will be interested in. The office of the historian of the department of state is putting out the volume of the Foreign Relations of the United States, the documents for Publi...