i've hunted, 29 your women in philadelphia. some of those people suffered abuse advance of the attack because they thought they were bonnie. >> very frightening. >> have in your door broken down and that sort of thing. >> i would like to thank you very much, and i would also just like to say that, given everything that we now know about the impact of what they did, we have here people who have pulled off one of the most horrible nonviolent acts of resistance in the country. [applause]

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>> now, for this panel i am the warm-up act. the panel features civic new zabriskie himself as those robert hunter, jessica mathews and david. you know them and respect them and, therefore, i will not waste your time with introductions. i will take a few minutes, however, to introduce the book itself. we have three objectives. first we wanted to offer the first comprehensive account in english of civic new zabriskie as an academic, as a key policy maker, and as a policy advocate and strategist. our second goal was to place his contributions in perspective. and several chapters, for example, we do with the role he played in bringing the cold war to a peaceful and. we do with how they managed to combine political loyalty with intellectual integrity. not something very common in

washington these days. and less obviously, the longest chapter in the book, chapter one, deals with the important role that he played in making room at the top for immigrants as well as for women, blacks and jews. please remember that zbigniew brzezinski and kissinger, afford those establishment was composed of white males. today, we look, no longer knows when and/or a woman becomes secretary of state. when blacks occupy the high foreign policy position at the nsc, or when jews leave the council on foreign relations. of course, they encountered resistance. i'm referring here to, particularly to dr. brzezinski. i give you an illustration from the book. in 1974, dr. brzezinski learned that a member of the old astonished, governor harriman, didn't think that someone named

brzezinski should occupy a high foreign policy post. so he pinned a feisty little letter, part of which i'm about to read. dear mr. harriman, since you're a blunt man, ma let me say quite bluntly that i do not feel that in her kissinger's background is qualified him are dealing with the middle east, nor do i think that your background as a million capitalists prevent you from dealing intelligence with the soviet communists. [laughter] yours sincerely, zbigniew brzezinski. i hasten to add that they soon reconciled. so while our first goal was to divide weight his career and the second to place it in perspective, our third goal that i tried to emphasize was to publish a book that is readable, mixing their easter's essays with a few stories about him.

there is certainly no time your to even mention host of these stories but i will summarize two of them that i particularly like. the first story has to do with the election of 1978 of a polish pope, john paul ii. some of you may remember, i am sure secretary gates would, that soviet leaders suffice by the election believed that a grand conspiracy by dr. brzezinski led to his election. [laughter] typical of the paranoid in the soviet union then and perhaps in russia today. in any case, against this background, consider the end of one of their conversations, that is the pope and brzezinski. the pope said, come back soon. dr. brzezinski replied, i can't do that so often. it's such a privilege. the pope says, laughing, you elected me, you have to come and

see me. [laughter] the second story, funny, more sentiment, and much to my liking though, the second story takes us to boston where doctor visits to became a u.s. citizen in 1968. in the books last chapter which is a conversation, twin mmi so, i raised the question of why he didn't change his impossibly difficult name at that time. i did change my first name can not my last name when i became a citizen a few years after that, for years after mckay said he was confident that in america people can become american without masking their ethnic identity. america is the only country where someone named zbigniew brzezinski can make a name for himself without changing his name. >> you can watch this and other programs on line at the tv.org. >> next on