one of the people i greatly admire and public service with cyrus vance, secretary of state.and your courier. i'm a new york lawyer fundamentally. one day i was riding the subway, for those of you who are rail safety specialists here, i love trains. i love the rails. i was just saying to somebody i've written every single new york city subway line except the franklin avenue shuttle. one day i was riding the subway in new york and in the last car i looked over and hunched over a newspaper in a trenchcoat all by himself, nobody noticed him with cyrus vance, former secretary of state. i'm going to be cyrus vance in six or seven days. >> i would like to thank you for your service. my colleague marcia hale, president of building america's future will come up next for a panel. please join me in thanking secretary john did today. [applause] ♪ ♪ >> you let us know what happens in the house today when it comes to their leadership election. >> sure, it is basically expect it to be status quo.afe, polygram considers safe despitee the election of donald trump, his leadership team, steve

i want to be cyrus vance in 67 days. nafeesa: i would like to thank you for your service, jiang thank you for joining us today. my colleague, marshall hale, president of the building america's future will come up next or four next panel. please join me in thanking secretary johnson today. [applause] >> wlage, please take your seats. -- ladies and gentlemen, please take your seats. marcia: if i could have everybody's attention. back again. thank you so much for showing up. it's great to see this many people show up for a infrastructure event. any time, but particularly at this time as we're getting ready to make lots of decisions we hope on this subject. i'm marshall hale of building america's future. and we're so happy to co-sponsor this with bloomberg government. they have been a great partner for us on many events. we hope to do that. i'm going to ask a few questions and then i'd really like for the audience to get into this. if you'll start thinking about what you might want to ask our panel of great people who know a

president agnu director of cia dick helms, nixon press secretary, nixon johnson, assistant secretary cyrus vance, bob one of nixon's top staff. jim jones tom johnson, and secretary state dean russ.ean they were there to confer about the presidency. >> kind of like if you can imagine president obama inviting donald trump over to have a little chat to brief him incase he won the presidency.y. so they've spent some time together. but i want you to notice what president johnson is wearing. those were his ranch clothes right, clint? >> that's what we call them his ranch clothes. [laughter] that morning -- as i came to work went into security trail earl, the agents on duty said that hey, clint there's a package there for you from the president. so i took the package into the back room and i opened it up and it was -- a set of ranch clothes like his. so i put them back in the and i went back to the security trailer and pretty so long the phone rang and it was president johnson he wanted me to put on those ranch clothes, come out by the swimming pool where he was at swimming, baa because he wanted me to

he brought in cyrus vance, who had been deputy secretary of defense. or george w. bush bringing in colin powell, secretary of the joint chiefs or barack obama held over george w. bush's secretary of defense, bob gates. that's what they usually do. >> in terms of past president, not just past precedent, whether we should be worried, is there any hard and fast rule that history teaches us in terms of whether or not experienced people are better at these kinds are there track records that we should know about where people came in who appeared to be totally, totally unsuited for the jobs for which they're being picked but it ended up being a nice refreshing change. it ended up something where the president had more wisdom than we can see from afar. >> oh, yeah. it very much coo co. be. harry truman himself came in. had been senator for ten years. not great foreign policy experience himself like franklin roosevelt, but was able to pick but the point is we're in a world that is -- we don't need to say how complicated it is. barack obama apparently said to donald trump yo

vice president agnew, director of cia, dick helms, ron zigler, nixon, johnson, assistant secretary cyrus vancebob haldeman, one of nixon's top staff, jim jones, tom johnson and secretary of state dean rusk. they were there to confer about the presidency. >> and this is kind of like, if you can imagine, president obama inviting donald trump over to have a little chat -- [laughter] to brief him in case he won the presidency. so they spent some time together, but i want you to notice what president johnson is wearing. those were his ranch clothes, right, clint? >> that's what we called them, his ranch clothes. that morning as i came to work and went into the security trailer, the agents on duty said, hey, clint, there's a package here for you from the president. so i took the package into the back room, i opened it up, and it was a set of ranch clothes like his. [laughter] so i put 'em back in the package and went through the day not thinking too much about it. after nixon and agnew left, i went back to the security trailer, and pretty soon the phone rang, and it was president johnson. he wanted

vice president agnew, director of cia, dick helms, ron zigler, nixon, johnson, assistant secretary cyrus vancebob haldeman, one of nixon's top staff, jim jones, tom johnson and secretary of state dean rusk. they were there to confer about the presidency. >> and this is kind of like, if you can imagine, president obama inviting donald trump over to have a little chat -- [laughter] to brief him in case he won the presidency. so they spent some time together, but i want you to notice what president johnson is wearing. those were his ranch clothes, right, clint? >> that's what we called them, his ranch clothes. that morning as i came to work and went into the security trailer, the agents on duty said, hey, clint, there's a package here for you from the president. so i took the package into the back room, i opened it up, and it was a set of ranch clothes like his. [laughter] so i put 'em back in the package and went through the day not thinking too much about it. after nixon and agnew left, i went back to the security trailer, and pretty soon the phone rang, and it was president johnson. he wanted