let me begin by introducing professor codevilla from boston university.y of you here at the biography of our speakers. since we do have the viewing audience, i want to go through for our viewing audience the credentials of our speakers. professor codevilla is a professor at boston university. he is the author of 12 books. the most recent is "the ruling class -- how they corrupted america and what we can do about it." he was a u.s. navy officer in the u.s. foreign service. he was a member of president reagan's transition team. he served as a senior staff member on the u.s. committee on intelligence. in his article -- he has written several articles. it is great to have professor codevilla with us to address this question, is there a coming culture clash over the constitution? he will speak for 25 minutes and then i will present dr. rosen. >> irote a paper, which i had assumed would be distributed to all of you before the session, but that is good to come to you afterward. please do read it. >> we did not want to read it while you were presenting. >> it doe

codevilla to repeat your question when he's heard it from you so that everyone can hear the question. >> yes, sir. >> two questions. first, how have your grapes done? [laughter] >> this was an excellent year. [laughter] slow-ripening fall. couldn't have been better. >> very good, thank you. your lecture kind of reminds me of the book i studied from far too many years ago, and it sits on my book shelf, and i can't remember the author and the name of it. seemed like it was politics among nations. >> oh, yes, house watertown. >> there you go. he was a realist and and perhaps you would say machiavellian in his approach to state craft. but through your theme there i get hints of, perhaps, maybe a degree of isolation in that when you say some problems are insoluble, you can't change character, the difficulty of getting people to comply, also the business of emphasizing a very strong defense and willingness to use it when necessary. is that correct as part of your theme? >> no, sir. >> okay. [laughter] >> the question is did you detect in my presentation a bit of isolationism payoff my state