kissinger fought very hard.e one then kept in his control -- he want them kept in his control throughout his lifetime. for access to them within the last decades. brian: how excessive was the drinking? john: if i had to pick one person on the skill of great reliability, he was one. people that when they spoke to -- it was either i agreed with them exactly, or they spoke such sense that i was overwhelmed by listening to them. historysly long oral said it was a problem. we shouldn't exaggerate it, but it was a problem. how many have you talked to that were close to richard nixon? john: i talked to a dozen. i talked to his secretary of defense. ,s i'm talking to mel, i say you were a close friend of jerry ford, who succeeded nixon and pardoned him. were a close friend of nixon. did you play any role in nixon's resignation? told nixon yeah, i he would be pardoned. ford, who succeeded nixon deniet the years that there was any deal that he would be pardoned. and here is mel in his mid-90's telling me this. people have

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kissinger, for five minutes. be limited to five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. kissinger, for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. speaker. be limited to five minutes. mr. speaker, i rise today to hopor the life and legacy of the honorable john b. anderson, to pay inspired many to serve. mr. kinzinger: he passed away at the age of 93. in mourning his death i said my condolences and prayers to his wife and family. a native of rockford, illinois, he attended rockford central high school and graduated from the university of illinois in 1939. before representing illinois' 16th district in the house of representatives, the district that i now proudly represent, john anderson answered the call to serve as a staff sergeant in the united states army. he left law school in 194 to enlist -- 1943 to enlist and bravely serve his country through the end of world war ii. honored with four battle stars for his valor in combat. upon returning home to rockford, he finished his law degree at the university of illinois and went off

what are nixon and kissinger reading together? they're reading h.g. wells, man in the moon, teddy roosevelt's use of the white man's burden, a phrase people are understandably allergic to. this is 1969. the example of britain early 1th century, 20th century, faced with the threat of germany, they discussed at great length. castleray back in the 19th century. then they go to book to book which many of you will know by lawrence thompson, professor of university at california at the time, a signologist about 1940, about britain's darkest hour, and nixon and kissinger reach for churchill and they reach for churchill for precisely the purpose we heard about a lot today, churchill's later career, where there is this yearning for peace and order and stability, something that goes beyond immediate triumph. it's not that the historians decided we must apply history or we've forgotten the lessons. it's that this is a living breathing calculation. obviously certain areas without naming names, history looms larger in the consciousness of a president or a secretar

you won't repair a nuclearly exchange on the korean peninsula. >> kissinger suggesting nixon was a bit unstable. there are those advancing the notion now that donald trump is mentally unstable. would you go that far? >> i went that far years ago. i went that far on the birth certificate. it its a birth certificate. it is an intelligence test. sanity test. integrity test. all those things. trump failed every one of those. every built of it. and i don't think there is a thing that is different, about, his behavior, since becoming president. i dent thion't think there was g that wasn't adadvertised. since he became president. >> there are those saying with increasing volume that now is the time to get serious about -- looking at impeachment when nan steep plo nancy -- nancy pelosi and others said, don't go there. is it time? >> distinguish political speech from reasonable speech. nanny pelosi doesn't want to be seen as the party that wants to impeach the president. of course they would go along with impeachment, tomorrow if the republicans, that's how it would have to happen if the republ

the part of it we re antonio kissinger. the part of it were not true.s story was also fiction but it made the great headlines. his death leaves many unresolved legal issues. he was being sued by his victims and appealing against his convictions, protesting his innocence to the end. with all the sport, here's karthi gna nyasegram, at the bbc sport centre. karthi gna nyasegram, good evening. karthi gna nyasegram, there karthi gna nyasegram, are there karthi gnanyasegram, are two big derbies. manchester there are two big derbies. manchester city are currently playing manchester united at old trafford in the top of the table clash. it was 1—1 at half—time after david silva put city ahead and marcus rashford equalised with this goal. manchester city have taken a 2-1 goal. manchester city have taken a 2—1 lead. there arejust i7 goal. manchester city have taken a 2—1 lead. there arejust 17 minutes remaining. if they win, they will be 11 points clear of manchester united and it will be difficult for any of their rivals to catch them. wayne their rivals to catch

i was going to say, secretary kissinger contacted the direct you of the fbi before he did that.d he would like to meet with the soviet ambassador and the director of the fbi gave him con kurnsicurrence to do so, an think that coordination was lacking. >> and all reporting is pointing to the fact that there was not coordination between the trump transition team and the obama administration. what about "the new york times" reports saying russians were using the nra and christian and gun groups? is that the m.i.a. for the russians? >> it certainly is. the russians have a lot of soft power. odd to say, but their weapons industry is one element. so is the russian orthodox church. there are lots of american citizens who enjoy shooting weapons and would be excited about shooting a drag nof sniper rifle and others who have an affinity with the russian church. and russian intelligence has used that soft power to make contact with individuals and develop relationships, yes. >> daniel, why do you think that flynn was so attractive to the russians, it seems, and who else do you think was at

i was once at an event henry kissinger was speaking at and the chair said can everyone hear me? and from the side, henry kissinger said, by definition, the people who cannot hear will not respond. [laughter] now audible. to repeat station identification you're at the wilson center and , today is another in our books at wilson series featuring the latest book by the remarkable james reston who is a wilson center global fellow. the topic of the book deals with a contentious period in the history of the vietnam war, and the book itself deals with the contentious debate over how to mark that war and the american'' role and sacrifice during that period. that was fraught with politics and contention over the appropriate artistic expression to memorialize that dramatic period in american history. the gold standard of book reviews remains "the new york times." they reviewed it this week and described the book as superb and unexpectedly affecting -- unexpectedly affecting in terms of the emotions it evokes as one reads it. it is a fantastic volume. jim has been affiliated as a fellow at

on saturday shock and cologne shared the spoils their set hoffenheim win against life's a labor kissinger with dortmund we showed you by our next win against hanover braman defeated augsburg downed lines and on friday freiburg shared the spoils with hamburg. then plunging temperatures in eastern china have left tree branches and leaves coated with a special type of frost called rime these scenes are from mountains sean and john showing province dripping white crystals on the trees and turn the area into a winter wonderland prime forms and water vapor in the air freezes rapidly on the surface of the planet. left it on the news has been. they know look like they know what we think. and soon they'll even know how we feel. well not a real person i'm still just a piece of software scientists around the world are working to measure our emotions . so hopefully i can be a helpful piece of software to virtual person as a therapist or a robotic as a teacher neither would have human empathy. what does the machine need to do to create empathy and a medical context when i disclose more information to

some people would regard henry kissinger also as a highly innovative person.ature? if somebody says to you, what makes somebody innovative at this world historical level? >> especially with steve jobs, ben franklin, and even einstein, you look around, and they love to cross disciplines. they love the humanities and the sciences. and leonardo da vinci is sort of the ult maimate in that, somebo who wasn't just smart, but had a playful curiosity about everything there was to know. and just like steve jobs loved design and loved, you know, calligraphy, but he also loved electronics, i think innovation comes from crossing disciplines. >> you know, there's a story that einstein tells that when he would get stuck on a physics problem sometimes, he'd stop. he'd go and play the violin. >> yeah. >> and he'd come back and there are now people who said you're actually exercising different parts of the brain when you do that, and that produces precisely the literal cross fertilization. >> when he was trying to get general relativity, all the years in 1912, 1913, he's livin

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henry kissinger was talking about the need to get out of vietnam with a decent interval.s quite a radical point of view for an establishment person at that time. to say we should be out, and we ask that they not embarrass us by taking it over immediately. that led in me but nearly everybody, to the false impression that presumably nixon agreed with it, nixon didn't agree with that for a minute. >> i had given a set of options to kissinger to consider at its first council meeting with nixon. and he at one point said dan, you don't have an option. i said, well, i don't think there is a win option. i said, you could double the number of troops and that would keep things quieter, but until they left. you can use nuclear weapons and kill off the people, i wouldn't call that a win. there just is no way to win. i too that opportunity to tell him something i long thought of telling somebody that was about to enter the world of really high secrecy. i said, henry, you're about to get a lot of clearances higher than top secret, that you did not know existed. that's going to have a s

catalyst for the rise and rise of a small sect in the country never of come to power had we not kissinger and nixon and a huge assault because the why that's what i'll be talking about at the podium or wherever. if people have the information of why i things i've had is the role of a documentary to make at least a political as un some is that we didn't ask for any money the british people gave well i'll give you an example and sends people well isn't it went if we saw where it went because the next we showed view view is we also than oxfam is a slightly different. and ourselves. we both factories nation had been ordered to where will we provided antibiotics who know what we're all i written this for the daily mirror primary schools using my phone people of cambodia it became not so much charity. because the film itself was a political fight was job thanks south african leaders had no sin mandela told the civil coming of it but to. what politicians do you should. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you see this like them before. they should. welcome back us stil

nixon met with kissinger every day.hurt herself with the comments with the president and his accusers. >> they said it seemed to be defender the accuser saying they deserve to be heard. this is clear. so we don't know exactly why nikki haley was the one who rolled this out. when i first heard about it on monday, it surprised me she was the one doing it. she still has a lot of credibility in the administration. it could be because they want her to be the face of iran. part of this was talking about violationins of u.s. regulation. i don't know why. she has been the face of a strong foreign policy for this administration on two major issues, north korea and iran. >> tim alberta, is it kevin mccarthy or steve scalise? >> it is mitch mcconnell. tax are form is on the one yard line here. it's not going to be the house that holds it up. the only way this thing falls apart at the last minute is if the senate cannot get to 50. mitch mcconnell is already in the dog house -- in the president's dog house because he can't get repea

the kissinger book sort of slowed me down and caused me to think about some things in ways that i had taught about them before. -- that i had not thought about them before. my moderate republican upbringing -- my father didn't like joe mccarthy. it started to get me to rethink some of the things i was taught at home. things progressed and i was going to vote for. goldwater, the first time i could vote for president. the election year, he started talking about, well, maybe we got to use nuclear weapons in vietnam. i thought that was crazy and i couldn't vote for him. started percolating at the university of wisconsin. they had a protest over dow chemical, which was the very first violent protest. there were many protests about the vietnam war, but this one went violent. the whole campus was in a state of shock. ton graduation, you had think about the draft. it was very present in our daily lives, what is going to happen next, what is the draft board going to say, what do we do? it just so happened there were graduate affirmance then so i went to law school and continued to get a draft

of come to power had we not bomb the country flat which they basically did what pull pump began kissinger and nixon completed they were there were two phases in the genocide in cambodia the film came under huge assault because it adapted why the why that's what i'll be talking about at the british library talking about documentaries the adding of the why you don't get it right all the time but if you have the evidence you do have the responsibility to attempt to draw a conclusion is you responsible just to show it without any conscious yes that is because you know what it's going to do it is going to. as i say scoop up people's emotions and they're going to ask why but they won't get an answer to that question and things are going to be changing in cambodia or wherever. if people have the information of why i things have happened in the first place and that is the role of a documentary maker at least a political documentary maker and one dealing with such serious matters such as life and death in a country that was bombed many more times than hiroshima was why they leads might not have li

if the dykes had given way, according to henry kissinger, somewhere around 2 million people could haved of famine and drowning. and we were bombing and it was not being talked about. and i thought, well, i'm a celebrity, maybe if i go and i bring back evidence... and it did stop two months after i got back so i am proud that i went. it changed my life. all for the good. the thing that i regret is that on my last day there, i made the mistake of going to a ceremony at an anti—aircraft gun, it wasn't being used, there were no airplanes or anything like that... there was a ceremony and i was asked to sing and people were laughing and so forth. and i sat down and laughing and then i got up and as i walked away i realised, my gosh, it is going to look like i am against my own country's soldiers and siding with the enemy. which is the last thing in the world that was true. i had spent years working with the veterans and soldiers. and then i made coming home in order to try to show what these men were dealing with when they came home. but the image was there. do you feel that, to a certain ex

i will finish by saying, i asked henry kissinger and his comment to me was that the chinese view siberia as their land and they are going home. peter: you have 30 seconds to apply. [laughter] natan: i have no concept of the chinese government or even president putin. you6 i was in siberia and my wife grew in siberia. -- i can tell you i was in siberia and my wife grew in siberia. friendship and we were singing songs about russia and anda friends forever participating in demonstrations against the chinese embassy. there were different stages. are huge empty lands in siberia along the border with china. you can go for hundreds of miles and see a hundred people here or there. border,ther side of the there are whole populations of chinese people. forink the potential russia, which is keeping every square meter to give away. -- they are so big, why do they need these for islands? for russia, it is against the nation are -- nature of the history of the country to give it away but look at the physics. the most empty lands, one meter out of this is the most populated -- most populated. more oppo

said hey this has to end and you've got to give the vote everyone in one thousand nine hundred six kissinger went to the south africans who also had a white minority government and told prime minister forester president forrester at the time you got to cut off the road asians and if you know if you cut them off we will give you some time to work out your problems but you have to cut off the rhodesians now and when the. south africans cut off the rhodesians cut off their oil cut off their gas very quickly the regime change they entered into negotiations and eventually you had majority rule not didn't work out very well with robert mugabe but. we need the chinese to do to the north koreans what the south africans to the rhodesians we have to have full comprehensive sanctions we have to cut them off from the international community that in my view is the only way they're going to avoid war at look we don't want war on the korean peninsula i think the way to do it is to is to have very effective sanctions and told you're an advocate of a three hundred fifty five ship u.s. navy president trump ha

. >> pure speculation, but would churchill filmore marketable with the nixon-kissinger detente schoolr the ronald reagan strength school? mr. ruane: i have thought about this, because you cannot research this era of history without this contemporary nances in yourreso mind. i think it depends where along that nuclear journey you hold churchill and say what would he be like? i prefer, as i expect edwina does, the churchill of the end. the peacemaker. i think that if you accept that churchill's anti-communism ran very deep, notwithstanding his efforts to get on with stalin, for him by 1953, 1954 to embrace peaceful coexistence suggests to me one of the most remarkable acts of statemanship. if you do, we are going somewhere very bad very soon. as to how he would manage world affairs today, that is a very difficult one. it makes me a little uncomfortable to extrapolate, but one thing i would say briefly because i expect my time is running out, i don't think he ever foresaw it. for all of his vision and scientific interest, i think he probably suspected that britain, russia, and america wo

, nixon and kissinger. >> in the early 1970s, right? >> yes. >> let's go to calls and hear from ed in danbury, connecticut. >> caller: was the south vietnam government in 1967 anti-buddhist? it certainly was before. and was it to build support from freedom of religion? >> certainly many buddhist activists understood the south vietnamese government to be anti-buddhist. in 1966, you had demonstrations against the saigon government. there is no doubt a spectrum of opinion when it comes to buddhist leaders of south vietnam. it seems the south vietnamese government had a persistent problem. it is beyond that part of the south vietnamese population that was most strongly behind it. >> what was the u.s. government's relationship with johnson's relationship with the south vietnamese government? >> well, i think it was complicated and a source of frustration alongside so many other sources of frustration for lbj. on the one hand, johnson recognized there had to be a partnership for the war to succeed. the war at the end of the day was in pursuit

. >> pure speculation but would churchill feel more comfortable with nixon kissinger detente or ronald reagan peace school that ultimately wound up the cold war? >> i think -- i have thought about this, because clearly you can't research this episode of history without having contemporary resonances in your mind. i think it depends on where along that nuclear journey you halt churchill and say what would he be like. i think the church hiill at the end, the peacemaker. i think if you accept that churchill's anti-communism ran very, very, very deep, notwithstanding efforts to get on with stalin, for him by 1953, '54 to embrace peaceful co-existence suggests to me one of the most remarkable acts of statesmanship. that his view was you cannot remain locked into dogmatic ideological positions in this thermonuclear age, because if you do we're going somewhere very bad very, very soon. as for how he would manage world affairs today, nuclear affairs today, that's a very difficult one. it makes me as a historian a little bit uncomfortable to extrapolate. one thing i'll say briefly because i sus

kissinger, a biography. steve jobs. benjamin franklin, and american life. and brings to life leonardo da vinci for us. without further ado, walter isaacson. [applause] >> thank you for -- from the miami book fest. always a great pleasure to be in this city. one reason it is great to be in miami, like so many other cities of this world, failed to be a mix of creative people with tolerance for all sorts of people, that is what made leonardo da vinci so creative. i have written about a lot of smart people, smart people are a dime a dozen. they don't usually amount to much. it takes being innovative and creative. one recipe for that is being able to stand at the intersection of arts and sciences, the humanities and engineering, what i remember watching steve jobs give a presentation that would always end with that street sign of the liberal arts technology and say that is where creativity lies. i thought that is what ben franklin did, even einstein, would play out his violin and play mozart when he had trouble with his equations saying music and art helps conne

some people regard henry kissinger as highly innovative.somebody says what makes somebody innovative at that historical level? >> especially with steve jobs, ben franklin and einstein you look around and they love to cross disciplines. they love the humanities and the sciences. leonardo da vinci is sort of the ultimate. somebody who wasn't just smart but had a playful curiosity about everything there was to know. just like steve jobs loved design and loved, you know, calligraphy but also loved electronics, i think innovation comes from crossing discipline. >> there is a story that einstein tells that when he would get stuck on physics problem sometimes he would stop and play the violin and come back and people said that you are actually exercising different parts of the brain when you do that and that produces the literal -- >> when he was trying to get general relativity, living in berlin he played mozart on his violin and would say that reconnects me to the harmony of the universe. that ability to feel harmonies of music and nature's laws

kids mom -- henry kissinger turned 94. i don't know but i'm hoping it was something in the water. >> george schultz had something. >> so that was extraordinary but what i do most proud of doing? >> history takes a long time to judge. i am grateful we stood up for the white people of freedom. and to be justified of the freedom agenda. but i think america is at its calling. so those are indeed universal. and so i am grateful we were able to do that. but always it was about people. then after the great earthquake the little boy said you are the lady from the united states? i said yes. just to be a woman representing the united states and to have a very difficult meeting who could not teach -- touch me because i was outside the family but so will you do me a favor? but my 13-year-old granddaughter and she and her mother are coming to the states would you meet them? so to come in with a pink t-shirt. he said i got to be foreign minister too. there was something in that moment this problem through justice and equality it is a lo

johnson, even worse nixon, sticking it out so to get elections.lives for kissinger comes off horribly. he is still celebrated. i don't get it. i think things were -- i think division we have this country between the classes, between the hard hats as we called them and long hairs, town versus town, all that stuff really got aggravated in the '60s. it never really left us during watergate. it kept getting worse, rural versus urban. everybody in this room knows what i'm talking about this fight, just seems to be the definition of every election now. reagan democrats, trump people. people are angry on both sides, faxes mean nothing, depend on your side. alabama, four weeks, we'll see what happens down there. i think, tough one down there only alternative to moore is a liberal democrat basically. pro-choice liberal democrat. i just think abortion issue could go away, we don't recognize up here or down here, but down here is also like up heree so. i think that is a tricky one to watch but i do think doug jones will win. i think. >> hi, chris. >> for three years. he will t be in there three

kissinger, a biography, steve jobs, , einstein, his life and universe. benjamin franklin, an american life.. and, of course, walter brings to life leonardo da vinci for us. without further ado walter, please. [applause] >> thank you, javier. thank you all from the miami book fair. i've been here for every book and it's always a great pleasure to be in this city. [applause] one reason it's great to be in miami is that like so many other cities of this world, it has now become a mixpl of very creative people with the tolerance for all sorts of people. and that was what made leonardo da vinci so creative. i've written about a lot of smart people, and at a certain point it occurs to me that smart people are a dime a dozen. they don't usually amount to much, right? it takes being innovative, imaginative and creative. and one recipe for that is being able to stand at the intersection of arts and sciences to love both the humanities and engineering. remember watching steve jobs give his product presentation. he would always end with that street sign of the libe

administration move to sign an arms deal with the soviets was criticized today by former president nixon and kissingernd mistake to eliminate medium range missiles in europe. >> many conservatives thought reagan had been charmed by gorbachev, and reagan had more problem dealing with his hard right than he did the left. so reagan had to constantly let the right know, i know what i'm doing. >> reagan was being accused already of getting soft on communism, but he hadn't forgotten the problems we still had. europe was still divided, there was still a berlin wall. >> there's one sign the soviets can make that would be unmistakable, that would advance dramatically the cause of freedom and peace. mr. gorbachev, open this gate. mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> it was perfect. it was beautiful. he had to insist on keeping it in the speech. and he did it. don't let anybody tell you it was a staffer or anybody else that did that. >> meanwhile, in the soviet union, gorbachev decides to do something bold and he says let's separate sdi from reducing the nuclear stockpile. once he does this, it opens up the po

american politics responds and it took several years and henry kissinger complain for the rest of their lives they were not able to achieve peace with honor because congressional support kept dropping. and then forcing them to turn against the war. and not declaring an end to the war with that peace movement had not force them to. but he is been killed and 76x77? seventy-eight? seventy-nine? how many more would have died? and those who are active in the peace movement to save lives sooner than it would have if they had never done before. and to save lives raising his voice to the growing chorus while it was still politically risky. abigail mccarthy they save lives. they owed their lives to force the united states to get out of vietnam on april 30, 1975. i received a draft notice 72. i was in in college two weeks later i had to report for my physical exam in south boston. it was filled with young men and then others pretend to be gay or mentally ill to be disqualified. i pass the physical and went home to wait for my notice to arrive in the mail telling me exactly when to report for duty

and it seems as if kissinger and secretary of state in there. they were embarrassed by it friendly. they did not want to tell the public. the navy was he humility. people within the soviet intelligence were probably locked up and how did you let that happen. the soviets twice sent ships out and sailed around it. there was a mutual agreement. as far as we are concerned i know there are stories in the new york times but it did not exist. we will never comment on this again. it became a situation where it was like one of their most closely guarded secrets even though i had been in the media. i did not know about that. that's how became this legend. all of these reporters were like you want to talk to us about it what happened. and they were just like what you mean. they started doing freedom of information request. the government agency is obligated by law to respond to it. they have to either say here what's your asking for on the account of national security. if they have done that then they were acknowledging that it have happened. and that is another loss. they are bound by the law

negotiations that were going on and conducted by the johnson administration, through the auspices of henry kissinger, nixon sent word to the north vietnamese that they should wait because they would get a better deal from nixon. now of course nixon wound up getting impeached from actions like that. it's not unusual for presidents to reach out on foreign policy issues in advance of the inauguration. however, it's very unusual for them to try to disrupt the policy of a sitting president, and that's what they did in this case. there were negotiations going on regarding israeli settlements and a message was sent by flynn clear as day that -- to the russians about how they could, you know, interfere and change what the obama policy was toward israel on that. and that's an interference similar to the nixon interferes in the peace talks. >> it also raises a series of questions because as has been reported, if michael flynn had briefings about his meetings with sergey kislyak before and after they happened and he told other members of the transition team about them, why have there been all these denials for

we could easily point to andrew orkson or henry kissinger metal and albright who, when asked in 1996 about 500,000 iraqi children who died because thats. sanctions, replied the price is worth it. we can point to the architects of the iraq war, they conflict that caused nearly 200,000 civilian deaths in the first 10 years. if we include factors such as infrastructure and damage and disease, that number tops 500,000. future generations might speak about the trump mindset. if we really want to take war seriously, we need to think about the bodies and lives of all of those involved, not just those who fight on america's behalf. i hope putting the body at the center of the american war story reminds us that the nations marshall history is much messier and more devastating to life and limb, more reflective of who we both for good,, frank -- thinking about the 369th, or for ill, when we think about military sexual trauma. hope we cannd i have a conversation about this. [applause] >> i have a rather dry question. you started off talking about often focus on not informing people about the sev

henry kissinger, bill gates met his wife in the workplace.ack obama met michelle obama in the workplace. sometimes they work out, sometimes they don't. but let's not act we don't live in a society where people work and meet each other all the time. >> so you think obviously we've been having this back and forth, you think everything is being conflated. a consensual relationship and someone being abused in a relationship, from harvey weinstein, you think they're all being lumped in one category. >> that's what they've attempted to do to me. i am not harvey weinstein. i don't want to prejudge him, but what i'm suggesting to you is i have never coerced, groped or exposed myself to anyone. the great sin is to have over 30 years a handful of consensual relationships. and we're going to start criminalizing people to have legitimate relationships as consentencing results, if that's the crime, then let's just say that. but don't drag me through the mud and then come back is and say we're going to continue the investigation. >> all the people when hav

there's always -- look at someone like henry kissinger, very serious person.h richard nixon are cringe-inducing. not in public. in the public, it's the president, you're vice president, and you behave with dignity. there's a kind of third world banana republic quality to the way pence is personally -- and again, the personalization is what gets me. and i think it's inappropriate for a constitutional republic. this is an administration. this is not a one-man rule where everything depends on his brilliance and his ability to do this and his being in touch with the american people. it's quite appropriate to say we're proud of what our administration has done under your leadership, mr. president. it's not appropriate to say you, mr. president, have done all these things, we're here just grateful to be around the table with you. >> doug, have we ever seen this kind of relationship between the president and the vice president? >> no, not when you have a vice president, as bill is rightfully saying, he's kind of -- all he does is kiss the ring of the president. does

>> i haven't heard this kind of sycophancy since i listened to the nixon take place where henry kissingering the president what a remarkable human being he is. >> but the president hasn't always had the best relationships with all of these people that you see there, who are praising him. do you think this is a turning point between the president and congress? >> well, you would have to then believe that this is real and that they believe -- that they really mean -- >> -- happen already and i missed it? >> well, who knows, but one of the lessons that congress learned is that this president is insecure, and that if you want to work with this president, you have to make him feel great about himself. and they didn't do it in the health care debate. and they decided to do it over tax cuts. and by the way. they did get a concession from donald trump, because he insisted on bringing the corporate tax rate to 15% and didn't get it and he's still applauding. >> well, this is a victory for the president, but this sycophancy, it's really just bizarre to watch. but the bigger question here, the broad

we could just as easily point to andrew jackson or henry kissinger or even madeleine albright, who when asked in 1996 about the 500,000 iraqi children who died because of u.s. , "theons replied that price is worth it. it.- the price is worth include such factors as infrastructure damage and disease, that number tops 500,000. future generations might speak about the trump mindset. one that would have us do unto others, totally destroy north korea, on the off chance they might do something to us. if we really want to take war seriously, we need to think about the bodies and lives of all of those involved, not just those who fight on america's behalf. at the very least, i hope that putting the body at the center of the american war story reminds us that the nations marshall history is -- history is martial much messier and reflective of who we are as a people, both for .ood or for ill -- thank you, and i hope we can have a conversation. [applause] >> that was an extremely moving lecture. i have a rather dry question. medialk about how the focused on not informing people about the severity

so i'm remembering that one of the great warriors of the 20th century -- >> you mean henry kissinger? >> i mean winston churchill. >> sorry. i was thinking about the shape of the table in paris. >> in fact, in diplomacy, i don't know whether wendy would put it this way, but in diplomacy, sometimes process is our most important product. get them at the table. talk about where you're going to meet, who is going to be there. but to continue my quotation, it was winston churchill who said that in the midst of war, he said that to jaw-jaw is better than war-war. i think that's where tillerson is coming from here. >> let me switch to iran for a moment because that's the other regime that you dealt with so intensively. we don't know what the president is going to decide to do. he certainly signalled he would like to tear up the deal but he had the u.n. ambassador yesterday in an unprecedented way declassifying debris from missiles that she argues were iranian produced, sold or distributed to the iranian-backed rebels in yemen fired at rijad. the question of whether it's a violation of the u.