bush, and secretary to george h w bush. we have executive director of fiscal institute of international affairs. he has been it distinguished professor on diplomacy at georgetown, vice president of worldvision, a veteran who served in the gulf war, us special envoy to the darfur process and most especially administer of international development. today they have edited and produced transforming our world, george h w bush and american foreign policy, a collection of essays from well-known foreign-policy practitioners who participated in unfolding international events in the administration. i to make sure everyone knows we will have time to take some audience questions near the end of the program. if you have questions please submit them to event@wilsoncenter.org. please include your name and affiliation. let me get things going. for me, a recurring theme in this book even though it was written by 20 authors in terms of the essays is good fortune. and ocean that george w. bush was uniquely qualified to lead the free world whe

bush. >> right.we heard -- mike, we heard about the bushes and how they spent the holidays at camp david. so between the two presidencies, there were 12 which family christmas is at camp david. what was it like to be there and serve during the holidays? >> it's, again, you see a typical american family come together as a family. and it's just wonderful to watch. and know that you have a role in providing that, that calm, that serenity, that peaceful meal, the right decorations, and just provide the atmosphere and your goal is to serve the president and his guests so when they leave on that sunday or whatever that's over they're happy, they're restored. and to watch the bushes during christmas's for 12 years is just a phenomenal thing to witness. >> yeah. all right, well we are close to being out of time and as you although you get to see a special sneak preview of our exhibit across the way, and not only does it cover camp david but it covers prairie temple pray pray chapel ranch, it covers walker's

bush was tempo. president bush was trail blazer. joins nearly 30 years career with the service culminated in 2015 when president obama named join the 24th director of the u.s. secret service and he was in charge. two jay joins the chief security officer at comcast coca nation nick trotta is with us here protected five presidents including president bush. [inaudible] post 9/11 travel with president bush, including his secret trip to iraq and afghanistan that you will hear about tonight. and if nicola oakes familiar you may have seen him in a documentary or two talking about being on the field at yankee stadium as president bush threw out the first pitch before game three of the 2001 world series. what a moment. also pleased tonight to have us with us as modern moderator, spencer geissinger, the former deputy assistant to the president for operations and advance at the white house under president bush. in that role, spent oversaw the integration of dozens of military security and operational agencies, all involved in presidential trav

completely, i not luc bowie, kate bush! completely, i got lucky and — bowie, kate bush! got to _ bowie, kate bush! completely, i got lucky and got to see - bowie, kate bush! completely, i got lucky and got to see her - bowie, kate bush! completely, i got lucky and got to see her a i got lucky and got to see her a number of years ago when she was performing in london, but that was after such a long hiatus. what do you think about that aspect when it came to her career, isuppose that aspect when it came to her career, i suppose a lot of young people as well wouldn't have seen her touring or anything like that either, that she took that decision to just concentrate on record making and not to be gigging around the world for example. i and not to be gigging around the world for example. i think a lot of artists _ the world for example. i think a lot of artists wish _ the world for example. i think a lot of artists wish they - a lot of artists wish they could do that. i think touring after a while gets quite tedious and repetitive, and if you can keep a career going just by m

bush presidential center is the host of this 55 minute event. >> here at the bush center we have a wonderful relationship with our partners, it is so nice to have dr. -- knowing our panelists who will be out here in a minute, these will be both informative and highly entertaining. these guys know how to tell a story. it's a rare treat to have the curtain pulled back, from those who are on the front line protecting the president and the first family. we are honored to be joined tonight by three former secret service agents whose combined years of service almost approach 82 years. privileged to have larry buendorf with us, 22 year veteran of the secret service. he was honored with the u.s. secret service avail are award, for stopping an assassination attempt on president gerald r. ford in 1975 and sacramento. later, he served 25 years as security chief -- joe clancy it is with us, he served on the protective details of four presidents including president bush, or trail blazer as he would have called him by his secret service code name. joe was -- culminating in 2015 when president obama named

bush. privileged to have larry buendorf with us, was a unique experience in the 22 year veteran of the sense that, he had, when i secret service. larry was honored with the u.s. worked for him he was governor secret service development for his of texas. he had gotten elected role in stopping and to that position on a reform fascination attempt on president agenda, four things he wanted gerald ford in to do for the state of texas. september of 1975 in sacramento. it was a policy driven later, larry served 25 years as campaign. when i joined the the security chief with the united states bush operation he was a olympic committee. joe full-fledged presidential clancy is with candidate and that was also a campaign on issues. it was a very disciplined process with him. you had your policy team, the speechwriting team would be given the policy. it was our job to turn it into a nice, presentable and persuadable speech. it was a very good policy operation and when the president got up to give a spee

bush. we kicked out all the old people -- [laughter] -- and my other favorite was the 43rd president of the united states who called me immediately after john mccain's funeral, jean, everyone at that funeral talked too long except for me. [laughter]. at dad's funeral, nobody talks more than ten minutes, you got it? ten minutes. yes, sir. president bush -- this time to talk about the train.? >> we'll get into that >> shall we save it for later? okay, we'll save the train for later. he enjoyed talking about the funeral. and one quick story, this is a little bizarre. but even the national media has to get really organized because they also had to hit the ground running and the networks divide up who's going to be the pool camera for the big events. fox news for that was the pool camera for the restart and they called [inaudible] [inaudible] me ended up closing into the media. the burial turned out to be 100 percent private. and for a while it was going to be a poor camera. so i just told presi

after his bush died. he was sad and obviously. and we came up with the idea his his his medical aid arranged for him to have a service dog named sully who became quite famous and evan took this was taken the funeral home in houston. the day after president bush died and evan just took sully to the funeral home with him to go check on everything and he found sully lane in front of the casket can't make it up and he took a picture and he came to the office and he said do you think we should send this out and i on, you know, release it to the media and i said, yes, i do. it will touch the nation's heart. and so i have a silly story. this is how famous sully was. but and by this gives me an opera. i was telling the story. i have two members of my funeral here. it's so exciting, maryland baker and lindsay reynolds were both great members of my funeral team. i was telling them we took sully with us to wash in dc on air force one because his next assignment was walter reed hospital. and we wasn't we we a problem

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they are in the bush library. all of those papers, we had to give everything, two sets were on it, it became a record. >> actually going forward from where we are in the world, and the current occupant of the white house, you should know that they can't just throw things out. every record must be kept under federal law to that effect. i was just going to say that we unfortunately did not have people do handwritten edits, i surely wish we did. but i think everybody had a different method. similarly, five o clock the day we circulated, i think most speech writers that i know, we are all kind of obsessive about version control. so i have a elaborate system of how i name my files to make sure that i'm looking at the right version. when i got a lot of edits, i would actually print out all the edits that i got so i could check off that i got through all of them. oftentimes, if, i might be getting a bunch of edits from members of the same team, say the economic policy team, i would ask them to combine them all, litigate

a painting by hieronymus bush. what he did was make an open call for all artists out ever and the world actually, ah, where he gave him some, some inspiration document of a deeper details from the painting and say, what do you think in this time about this like a de burned bunny city, what would it, what would it mean in that time? and what, when it does mean in this time, what's burning in the world now? for the dodge sculpture artists behind this creation, it was a question of what will be burning in the future roman installation or for the bush, put out a full show out of future will look in holland and we are because of the climate change or the water will come soon or we have to rescue everything. we've got the we have to float the landscape and get it on the on the run. in the future, we will need to save in a chair so all these bulbs contain as special atmosphere and special plans that need to be rescued from either rising water and polluted airs. the bush parade is a free event, attended by more than $36000

bush. was supposed to be or had a comic that kept him up in d.c. we will tells many of his stories as we can remember, quite a few of them. my hope is used half this time to talk about questions that i have got for these two. and then will spend the other half taking any questions you have. this when they happy to go if the whole session is being a presidential speech writers exactly think it would be on west ring. that is it. [laughter] i'm kidding it is much more like deep. [laughter] so this is a presidential ideas festival. i'll set up with a question for these two about the relationship about ideas and speeches. sometimes what comes off as an idea ends up in a speech but sometimes a speechwriting process starts before you have the idea. so just curious, what do you think about that process and how an idea becomes a speech? >> in a weird way, as speech writers were not coming up with the ideas for their much smarter people in the building for developing those ideas. and away at these ideas actually get -- they do not get crystallized until they

kate bush back at number one in the chart up bush back at number one in the chart up a0 years.ister borisjohnson has travelled to kyiv, to have talks with ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky. during the visit, the pm offered a uk—led military training programme which he said could "change the equation of the war". downing street says the operation would have the potential to train up to 10,000 soldiers every 120 days. both leaders have been speaking about the talks in kyiv. let's have a listen to what they said. translation: we do not have any doubt that - ukraine's going to prevail, so we are preparing for postwar reconstruction after our victory. i thank you for this. i thank you for your help in terms of reconstruction of kyiv that the united kingdom has undertaken. i thank you for the fact that these negotiations are, as usual, very frank and substantial. and, taking this opportunity, i'd like also to draw your attention to the fact that we have had a historic moment today as ukraine has received a positive assessment from the european commission in terms of our membersh

talk him bush, also known as den bush, is where the artists spend most of his life. the higher one of miss bush are center showcases work by the renaissance artist, although not the originals. they show his fascination for uncanny imagery as in his painting called the garden of earthly delights, inspiration for the bush parade which this year was given, the motto: seduction. this does do wo teamed up to create this inflatable interpretation of the painting. they wanted it to be a bit playful. above in the paid thing, there is like a kind of airship and strange figures and we were like, one, like a swan. yeah. and we were like, yeah, we want to make something cook some, some strange technical machine. and we also wanted to play around with the public, so we sort of invented the inflatable lego. i'm in a way that you can zip and unzip all these different types of bags and make all sorts of structures. so while playing with this lego, we came up with this structure, which is a playful, large tentacle where we can yet try and trick did the public not only visual artists

these countries were targeted by the george h w bush, or george w bush, the senior vice president of ronald reagan and bribed with hundreds of millions of dollars. and these monies were given the countries in exchange for their acquiescence and their submission to american military and economic and political objectives. no ring of nato military bases is being formed around russia. the u. s. and nato have over 600 military base as well to wide. russia has just 18, but the west still claims that russia has aggressive intent by turning this russian soviets into this dangerous bo, you man, that wants to take over the world. that was a content strategy to create this image in. soviets as out for a conquest, which was not the case, then bar now with nato should have died, but they will give it meaning. it is about infected, created by nato native business machine, because you must remember, if nato disbanded shareholders in the united states and elsewhere in lodge obs companies would lose millions and millions. they'd only have one yacht instead of 2 yards each there. oh dear, wouldn't tha

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george w bush and putin come on together and george w bush certainly sought a reset with russia. he was very chummy with putin. we all remember the fishing trip, and that was later in the process. they're very first joint news conference george w bush was at the podium putin was standing next to him. he said russia is not the enemy of the united states. the cold war is over, right, but putin didn't get what he wanted from bush and some historians have argued. this is a big reason why he became he becomes more and more authoritarian and autocratic. i wouldn't put the us at the center of the story and that way. i think that putin became autocratic for internal. okay reasons, it speaks to his personality his sense of power. the vision that he has for for russia eventually he latches on to a very, you know, sort of conservative in the sense of reactionary autocratic vision ultra rationalist. yes of russia's past and of russia's future, and i don't think that that's a function of anything george w bush did or anything at the us did although the us has always the the foil to to putin's

the bush parade is a free event, attended by more than $36000.00 locals and visitors ally. they only have to pay for a seat on $1.00 of the 4 terraces. ah, nice to people. i have been very creative. all things look for the different a lot of the art was about how we can, how we shall go on with his world, sir. talk him bosh, also known as dan bosh is where the artists spend most of his life. the hieronymus bush, our centre, showcased his work by the renaissance artist, although not the originals. they show his fascination for uncanny imagery as in his painting called the garden of earthly delights, inspiration for the bush parade which this year was given. the motto seduction. this dust you wo, teamed up to create this inflatable interpretation of the painting. they wanted it to be a bit playful. above, in the paid finger as like a kind of airship and strange figures. and we were like one, like a swarm. yeah. and we were like, yeah, we want to make something cook some, some strange technical machine. and we also wanted to play around with the public. so we sort of invented

jeb bush and hillary clinton so another styon of the bush dynasty. and you can't get more establishment than hillary clinton on the left, right? so trump, there is kind of he's basically saying it bushes over because it there is disappointment and in iraq war there is still a huge discontent and opposition to comprehensive immigration reform which of course jeb bush had written a book about when it prior to his run. and the economic legacy of the bush presidency which ended with the global financial crisis and the great recession the also in the back of voters heads republican primary voters heads. so i think that played a part i've say that we the important moment is not trump's victory in the republican primary. donald trump won about 45% of the total vote in the republican primaries and caucuses in 2016. had he lost the general election. i think the anti-trump forces would still have had a be in a very good position and that debate which is a debate that goes on between populism and conservatism for 100 years as i outlined in my book would be more

bush told me. remember when pelosi -- pelosi was first elected in the first woman in the history of our country and george w. bush would to deliver the state of the union address and he was very gracious in the beginning mentioning the history of the mom and then the mentioning her father and according to his top aidessh bushveld that pelosi ner reciprocated. he was making anet offer k let's try to act in the cooler manner than where the politics are heading today and that was something she was willing to do. >> it's interesting i wondered if she thinks if i relinquish any notion of teen partisan i relinquish the power.ou >> she would say boehner didn't deliver. like what's the point of bipartisanship if you can't deliver to the people? she thinks the most damaging legislation she pushed through was not thee affordable care ac. it was the bank bailout in 2008 when we had the financial meltdown and nobody likedd bailinged out tanks. bailing out banks is not the most popular thing to do but the econo

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w bush. the liberation of kuwait was only the 1st stage of a much more ambitious policy. he wanted to build a new middle east. after the victory in iraq, he sought to make the persian gulf whose oil wealth made it particularly strategic region. more secure for american interests. but to achieve his goal, bush 1st needed to resolve the israeli, palestinian conflict threatening the stability of the entire middle east. the process was launched with a peace conference in madrid in his efforts to impose his pox americana on the gulf. president bush invited any one with any potential influence on the arab israeli conflict. got up with them. you may know some europeans were the soviets, with leaders of the ma grip and the middle east. all attended. russell created that national swimming. only one country was missing the islamic republic of iran. the visceral answer for why iran was not invited is the hangover from the hostage taking it's still with us today. ah, hatred of iran for the 979 hostage thing that is behind us policy today. more than anybody thinks or believes is a par

came to head to cia and i established my relationship with bush. i was 26 years old at the time and that relationship was obviously. pivotal in my life because he eventually made me attorney general. he served in that role for a year if i recall. yeah, he was in that role as a head of cia for one year and during this time. the cia was under investigation by six committees and one commission. this was for alleged. excesses during the cold war things like attempted or successful assassinations and things like that. and so he had to defend the agency during the time where everyone was trying to tear it apart. and he did such a great job in that one year and he won the respect of the agency professionals who are the old-time cold warriors in those days? that they named the cia campus and building after him. it's the george hw bush intelligence center. so that's the kind of impact. it could have even just one year in the job. you your doj. you're the number two there. you become acting attorney general and attorney general thornburg gets convinced to ru

bush. so dana carvy became famous for his characterization of bush. and bush's sometime sort of telegraphic style of speech. and while bush was president, he would smile and me, and that's pretty funny. so after he left the white house, he no longer had to do that. but george h. w. bush, i had the honor and the pleasure to encounter him a few times. i used to teach at texas a&m at the george bush school of public service. and so i got to meet him, and he would come to my classes and he always struck me as one of the most decent individuals to occupy the white house. and the most -- i had no idea that he had this sense of humor and this capacity for humor that he does not long after the left the white house, at about the time that his presidential library was opening and school was opening at texas a&m, he gave a closed door address to students at texas. closed-door in the sense that the press was not allowed. and one of the things that presidents often have a hard time with -- and george w. h. bush really had this problem -- when the press was around,