he was also director of social policy programs for aei and codirector of aei's decadent study of themissions to which he was appointed by president reagan. and from 2003 until 2006, served in the of of directors of corporation financial community service. bill kristol is editor at the weekly standard, which he cofounded in 1995. he's one of the nation's leading political analysts and commentators. he forgot me appears on fox news sunday and on the fox news channel. before starting the weekly standard, though lead the project for republican future and prior to that service chief of staff to dan quayle and chief of staff to secretary of education bill bennett before coming to washington in 1985 by bill kristol taught politics at university of pennsylvania and harvard's kennedy school. and finally, senator alexander's coeditor, checker fan is joining us. he is a think tank devoted to advancing educational excellence. also at the red task force on k-12 education. he's a senior editor of the outstanding to inform education maximum adjunct fellow here at the hudson institute. for 40 years,

i am the president of a i -- of aei. this is featuring a distinguished panel and a keynote address by jim mcnerney, chairman and ceo of the boeing corporation. i grew up in seattle, washington. when i grew up in the 1970's, seattle was a company town. it was a boeing town. boeing was responsible for its success and the growth of culture, many of the institutions that i enjoyed as a kid. i have a special attachment to it for that reason. while now boeing is headquartered in chicago, people in seattle still feel the way i do. i am particularly delighted to have gotten to know jim mcnerney over the past year and to have him here at aie. it is a great honor for us to hear his remarks. boeing is a $68 billion aerospace corporation. jim has been running boeing as ceo since 2005. he has a senate career as executive and a number of fortune 50 firms, including procter and gamble, general electric, and 3m. he has been recently appointed to the president's export council. this is a very important position that helped the united sta

i am the president of a i -- of aei. this is featuring a distinguished panel and a keynote address by jim mcnerney, chairman and ceo of the boeing corporation. i grew up in seattle, washington. when i grew up in the 1970's, seattle was a company town. it was a boeing town. boeing was responsible for its success and the growth of culture, many of the institutions that i enjoyed as a kid. i have a special attachment to it for that reason. while now boeing is headquartered in chicago, people in seattle still feel the way i do. i am particularly delighted to have gotten to know jim mcnerney over the past year and to have him here at aie. it is a great honor for us to hear his remarks. boeing is a $68 billion aerospace corporation. jim has been running boeing as ceo since 2005. he has a senate career as executive and a number of fortune 50 firms, including procter and gamble, general electric, and 3m. he has been recently appointed to the president's export council. this is a very important position that helped the united sta

glenn hubbard is not a stranger to aei audiences. ease the dean of the columbia business school, a former chairman of the council of economic advisers to the present. is a prolific author and speaker, public intellectual, and he's a member of aei's council of academic advisers. he's here quite a lot and we are delighted. we are joined today after presentation of his new work by a panel that you see before you here today that features ramesh ponnuru from the "national review," carment reinhart from the university of maryland, and the panel will be moderated by our very own head of economic policy studies, kevin hassett. so please join me in what coming glenn hubbard. [applause] >> thanks very much for that kind introduction. and thanks to a hale and hearty audience. the book "seeds of destruction" i wrote with peter was a classic of mine in graduate school. is a wonderful christmas present. so let me just promote it right here. a great stocking stuffer. when peter and i sat down to write this book, it was about a search for both ideas

again, i believe aei can play an important role in that. with the upcoming congress and the tough budget choices they will face in mind, i want to highlight these notes. fundamental challenges to u.s.. first, a shrinking u.s. defense industrial base and, second, and even faster shrinking pool of u.s. workers who have skills in the problem-solving fields of science, technology, engineering, and math. the defense industrial base, historically, has been one of the united states greatest strategic assets. yet, for the first time in a century, there is no u.s. team actively working on a major new deal in the airplane development program. in addition, there is no active rotorcraft bellman program. nor is there a new nasa spaceflight program. it is getting smaller rather than bigger. secretary gates is seeking about $100 billion in the acquisition process. at boeing, we have been supportive of the secretary's initiative. at the same time, we need to remember that the strong connection between our nation's economic power and its military power is k

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host: there is no partnership between aei and c-span. we at think tanks, republican, conservative, liberal and perspective, and to our bu -- at progressive, and do our best to balance every prospective. tom. caller: merry christmas to you. about c-span, no doubt about it, you guys are the most unbiased of any media there is, print or tv or radio. the glenn beck phenomenon, the march he had in washington, d.c., his talk radio show, talk radio in general, and blocks -- conservative media and blogs. if it had not been for them, it would not matter if scott brown had one -- politicians don't really matter. it is a groundswell in this conservative talk radio and television and media that have really escalated right now republicans holding the mantle as the conservative party. many of the same people would gladly be a third party if there is a viable option. i think that is the biggest thing in 2010 and 2009. host: scott brown is no. 5 on cbsnews.com, top 10 political moments of 2010. uawer: for me, i'm a proud worker, and it would have to be