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My pleasure to introduce David Davenport, the author of rugged individualism dead or alive. 0 also Research Fellow at the Research Institute and previously the president of pepperdine university. David, thank you very much for coming to share this with us. [applause] thank you, george, and ladies and gentlemen, its a pleasure to be with you today. Occurred to me as we collected up yet one more spring rain and were competing with the warriors playoff game and i assume the giants and the dodgers game, i dont need to give a talk on rugged individualism. You are rugged for show up. Youre also brav...

He is a vietnam veteran and a life long aficionado of books, maps, chicago sports, and music. This afternoon, he will be speaking on his latest book, the tragedy of u. S. Foreignpolicy, how americas civil religion betrayed the national interest. [applause] thank you very much. It was a wonderfully brief introduction, except you left out my doctoral dissertation. [laughter] mr. Mcdougall i thank you all. The turnout is fantastic. I will try not to let you down. , this is a homecoming, or would be, if the Woodrow Wilson center had not changed so dramatically over the years. I was a wilson fellow...

[applause] has he beamed his witness dom towards us last night, president obama told us that isil was not islamic. You mean the Islamic State is not islamic. Doubtless if he had been around at the time of the spanish inquisition he would have told us the pope wasnt catholic. Do you consider that this latest intellectual is further evidence that he has adopted the arab narrative, and as such, isil will never be defeated i think obama demonstrated, by saying nothing and doing nothing, while half a million christians were expelled from their homes or slaughtered, that he is no christian. [applaus...

On newsmakers republican senator john hoeven of north dakota. William adams, the 10th chair announces a new initiative to enhance the significance of the arts and humanities. The initiative is part of the institutions 50th anniversary celebration. The Government Institute titian was founded in 1965 with a mission to support research, education, preservation, and programs and humanity. This National Press club event is about one hour. Tuesday night, president obama delivers his state of the Union Address. Live coverage begins at it 00 p. M. Eastern. The gop response, delivered by joni ernst and...

The category of things where i think there will be bipartisan support. I think those are very clearly legislative issues that the congress will take the lead in terms of the timetable and focus they will do. Not mentioned because i thought that they were very contentious. As her matter of fact as a matter of fact, on the ledger of putting things in columns of more contentious or greater possibility for working together, i see both of those in that category of greater possibility for working together. I think the question will come back to a point that was just raised in terms of deficits and t...