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symposium hosted by the atomic heritage symposium. this is 40 minutes. i hope you ve enjoyed the morning program. we re now in for some additional treats this afternoon. this section is called girls of the manhattan project, and i sadly had to i m not sad about filling in but i m sad that denise kiernen who is the author of girls of the atomic city will not be here today. so i know many of you are looking forward to her. she s just a wonderful, vivacious, engaging person and just fell in love with oak ridge and the girls that she met there and that are the heroines of her book. her book reached new york times best seller list when it came out and it fascinated people with a story of the women in world war ii who were working on this top secret project in oak ridge. and one of the girls she featured nine girls is with us this afternoon and that s rosemary meyers lane. three of them are captured three of the girls that are the nine major characters not cha ....
former white house staffers discuss the impact of second terms on presidential leadership and effectiveness. the panel suggests that presidents often change their focus to foreign policy welding news media is already looking ahead to the next president. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. think you to the foundation. we have had a great partnership. this is a series where we look at leadership not in the abstract, but at a particular institution. we have the majority leader from the senate, senators lott and daschle. we have also looked at congressional leadership and foreign policy. we have a panel of people who are extremely knowledgeable who have served with and encountered multiple presidents we can talk about today. let me say a few things quickly and then introduce our panel. we put together a book about the second term of the bush administration. it was called second term blues. that is not to pick on george bush so much as to say second term presidents hav ....
for all the work you have done on this. and, since he showed up, mark who is retired from the central plains, i/o have a special thank you. over the years, i have done a lot of research at the national archives. back when you were at [indiscernible] and the archivist always seem to know what i was interested in. or have suggestions for what i ought to be interested in. and mark called me when i was working on cold war kids and said, you know, there is this collection are my be interested in. well, yes, i was very much. and it became part of a chapter in a book. so, thank you, mark. now, for tonight s discussion. what do school lunch programs the indian adoption project, polio shots, and comic books have in common? you are going oh, obviously, your first guess would be, yes, they all have something to do with the postwar years. but to they are also examples of the uptick and an unprecedented uptick in the federal intervention in children s lives between 1945 and 19 ....
the political life. i can remember the convention in 1960. all of the grandparents and parents were listening to the convention night after night. i remember john kennedy s race in 1962. it was the biggest thing in the family life. the fantasy all my life was that , grow up and find a career and fight away to get into public service. your dad started a full vote dealership. mr. beyer: by the end of the summer i had fallen in love with the business and gotten cold feet about med school and i asked if i could stand at the weeks and it turned into 41 years. interviewer: where did you go to college? mr. beyer: a small liberal arts college that dates from 1793. and at dartmouth, majoring in economics which was formative for me because i had one graduate program in development economics. how do you raise poor countries out of pollard poverty and that has been relevant for the u.s. and relevant for leadership. interviewer: what makes a successful car dealership? mr. beyer: ....
us. the other imminent threat is giving up a piece of the grid. and giving law enforcement the tools of intelligence, the single greatest asset we need have and also giving them the electronic tools, i don t think we do nearly the job we should be doing in terms of protecting against cyber attacks. we ve seen just last week what happens when supposedly the chinese have now hacked into the personnel records of upwards of 20 million government employees. the one positive out of all of that, it is the only hope we have of maybe recovering lois lerner s emails from the i.r.s., get them from the chinese. but it is a serious issue that we need to put first and foremost as a serious threat to the safety and security of our communities. i know that there are some sheriffs representing interesting states, maybe like iowa, might have interests there. some other states like florida. i see one of those sheriffs is about to take the stage and i d like to ask him to take the next q ....