the first day since 1977 i returned in 78 with secretary james schlesinger, the first secretary of the department of energy and a former cia director as well. every time a u.s. cabinet officer has gone to china, a cooperative science and technology agreement has been signed. and they urge us to look to the current technical duties that are taking place as opposed to the agreement. and here i am most pleased about the signing ceremony, which is going on outside, which is a concrete effort to develop a joint research and development program in automobiles, clean coal and building efficiency. and i know there are many other industrial operations cooperations going forward, joint chinese u.s. activities, which deserve our attention. this is the area which needs to be accelerated. second point i want to make is a challenge. the anxiousness than i have about u.s. attitudes, especially in green tech allergies, solar technologies and biomass and other technologies among young technical people of the united states. they are passionately concerned about the chart that mr. sandalow showed up othe

and i sat to the right of president nixon, and to the right of me was james schlesinger. and i noticed that there was a camera above us that was trained on brzezinksi, and brzezinksi began his remarks and i noticed some activity out of the left corner of my eye. president nixon had leaned forward, and he took a writing pad off of the table that the hotel had provided, he picked up a pen and i saw him scribbling something. and he passed the note to me, and i looked down and it said, "are you having a good time?" and i immediately turned the pad over because i didn't want the camera to pick up what he had written because he was supposed to be paying attention to what brzezinksi was saying. but to me that really illustrated the kind of person he was, that he was involved in all of these great events and really influencing american policy toward russia and having to worry about that, and yet at the same time he was concerned about my welfare and whether or not i was learning anything. c-span: there was a moment in the book you describe where you went to his house, and you wer

the first day since 1977 i returned in 78 with secretary james schlesinger, the first secretary of the department of energy and a former cia director as well. every time a u.s. cabinet officer has gone to china, a cooperative science and technology agreement has been signed. and they urge us to look to the current technical duties that are taking place as opposed to the agreement. and here i am most pleased about the signing ceremony, which is going on outside, which is a concrete effort to develop a joint research and development program in automobiles, clean coal and building efficiency. and i know there are many other industrial operations cooperations going forward, joint chinese u.s. activities, which deserve our attention. this is the area which needs to be accelerated. second point i want to make is a challenge. the anxiousness than i have about u.s. attitudes, especially in green tech allergies, solar technologies and biomass and other technologies among young technical people of the united states. they are passionately concerned about the chart that mr. sandalow showed up othe