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Speaking of engagement, i hope you will take the opportunity during our interview to doing todays discussion by submitting questions as we go along. You can do that by clicking the q a button at the bottom of your screen. Today, as vicente mentioned, we are joined by my friend robert zoellick, he has served america and served her well across multiple administrations and in a range of key roles in the late 80s he served as counselor to the secretary of the treasury under secretary of state as well as White House Deputy chief of staff. In the george w. Bush years he served as ab and later president of the world bank. Hes received numerous honors the state departments highest award, the treasury departments Alexander Hamilton award, and dod medal for distinguished public service. The American Government werent the only ones, the German Government awarded him the night commanders cross, the Mexican Government awarded him their aztec eagle and chili gave chile abof course the author of a re
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs. He talked about his experience serving under president and obama. Steve and on behalf of the family, it is my pleasure to welcome you to the distinguished lecture. Mattis in front of an audience of 900 people, a scenario which would be unthinkable today. And the Chicago Council which we founded in 2018. For thes as a form discussion and elevation of diverse perspectives on the big global questions. It can be and policymakers, military leaders, journalists, and analysts throughout the year to discuss their insights with the public. The center produces original research to deepen our understanding of the proposed solutions to critical global the surveyincluding of American Public opinion on u. S. Foreign policy. The 2020 installment will be released later this summer. As the council approaches its totenary, they will continue enhance important work into the second century. Turning to this afternoons program, its my honor to welcome our distinguished
Adapt to our troubled times, im glad were doing this evening for nonaspirin, i wish we were all there obviously, thank you for joining me and taking the time, congratulations to you on taking over the Hoover Institution, i hope congratulations is the right way to look at it. I cant imagine how you will squeeze in figure skating in the golfing with all of that but if anybody can, i know itll be you but thank you and nick for helping without book on james baker, you are both generous with your time and recollection to help us make there we got that right, i just wanted to throw that in there too. So im going to start off with some pretty big stuff, this is a tumultuous time in our history, here at home and around the world, big things are happening and maybe its a cliche but it feels like a hinged point and i want to get to talking about that, we remember the claddagh closely covenant when you and president bush and how you responded to the challenge, in terms of american fatalities, we