to read >> royte because henry kissinger was just an exceptionally important figure. we will only include a handful of people that were not and nixon and kissinger were a team. at the end of the day he made the decision and kissinger said of himself but kissinger is probably the best certain string of republican foreign policy by which i will call realism and that emphasizes balance of power international behavior of other countries and internal behavior the need to carefully coordinate to read the kissinger approach is different from the bush approach and the ronald reagan approach so kissinger is deserving of special mention for the reason. as bernanke went to china in 1972. what did that to for the republican foreign policy expectation? >> at the time it was a popular move. with the general boating public -- voting public there was a conservative who were very skeptical because their point of view was with a horrible dictator and long term united states presiding it makes perfect sense. we are balancing china and the soviet union, its practical, it's constructive a

. >> right. >> why. >> because henry kissinger was just an exceptionally important figure. i mean, i only included a handful of people that were not presidents, and nixon and kissinger really were a team. at the end of the day nixon made the decision. he was the president. but kissinger, he is probably the best living represented today of extreme republican foreign-policy, which i would call realism. and that emphasizes balance of power to manage a national behavior of other countries, the need to carefully coordinate diplomacy, the kissinger approached is very different from the bush approach and very different from the reagan approach. and so i think kissinger is deserving. >> richard nixon went to china. what did that to its republican foreign-policy expectations? >> well, at the time it was a popular move. with the general boating public it was popular. there was a group of, you know, conservative consistently conservative republicans, the national few who were very skeptical. one view, of horrible dictator. dino, a long term. they didn't like it, but the mainstream res

[laughter] and then here comes henry kissinger. i think, my god, henry kissinger is still mad about that one little war criminal mention? talk about hypersensitive. but it turns out that's not what he is mad about. i guess i said in a column once, why is it that george shultz, former secretary of state with a ph.d is always referred to as mr. schulz, and henry kissinger, former secretary of state with a ph.d is always called dr. kissinger? and the only thing i could figure it may be kissinger had a podiatry practice on the side. [laughter] but the dinner party has not happened, and i tell you i hear from is animal people. and by animal people i don't mean people who are thrown clear of a plane wreck in africa and raised by a bench of our many things. i mean people with special concern for animals. i mentioned once in a column that they appeared to be a breed of dog that seemed to be assembled from parts from other breeds of dogs. [laughter] not the parts of those dogs are all that sorry about getting a. you may be surprised how man

there were a couple of moments where i wondered whether henry kissinger was still henry kissinger. was henry kissinger -- we talked about the concept in this book called strategic trust press is -- versus a system of strategic threats. as i learn from henry kissinger, sometimes not imagining the world you want but the world you have, have you become sentimental about china? >> we now have a republican version. i -- how you define -- i believe and i have not changed my philosophy that for foreign policy you need a correct assessment of the principal elements that are shaping the perception of nations of each other, the sense of security, you have to decide -- you have to understand they have an element of equilibrium. otherwise, every issue turns into -- that is my basic view. conditions have changed. when the soviet union was the other major power in the world, we were dealing with a country that faced its impact on its military capacity. confronting us in each decade with some military crisis, i think conditions have now changed. the chinese in the world in which we live is not so

henry kissinger, thank you very much. [laughter] [applause] >> we have a former vice president and liz dick cheney, which i would find the toughest interview available -- possible if my daughter were to interview me. steve commons will moderate path this is an interesting opportunity. having a vice president and his immediate predecessors did it predecessor within an hour of each other is enviable. people know joe biden is a distinctive and important vice president, and dick cheney might be of all the president's one of the most powerful, distinctive, and some who used that office in many ways that others have not. i once was talking to walter mondale and had written a critique of the issues going on, and walter mondale took credit for powerful vice presidents by telling me his was the first vice president's office in the white house. when i was in the middle east last year with liz cheney, we see the world a little different, led been a senior official in the state department and worked closely with her father and variou

shultz, and henry kissinger, former secretary is always called dr. kissinger and the only thing i can figure is maybe kissinger had a podiatry practice on the side but that the dinner party has not happened and i tell you who i hear from is animal people come and buy animal people i don't mean people who are thrown clear of a plane wreck in africa and raised by a bunch of a running it things i mean people with a special concern for animals. i mentioned one in a column that to the breed of dog it seemed to be assembled from parts from other breeds of dog. [laughter] not the parts those dogs are all about sorry about giving up. [laughter] you would be surprised how many voters there are here in the united states with computers and things, typewriters. anyway, i hear from the animal people. i wasn't one of the people who said dan quayle had a scare like a deer in the head headlights but people who did write that got more, even though dan quayle had a very loyal quality got more letters from deer people than dan quayle people. >> my question is about whi

this after a lot of gop donors and other prominent figures such as henry kissinger encouraged christie to run. >> now is not my time. i have a commitment to new jersey that i simply will not abandon. that's a promise i made to the people of this state when i took office 20 months ago. to fix a broken new jersey. when i look at what we've accomplished so far, i'm proud. but i know we are not nearly done. >> christie's announcement as a new poll shows support for perry falling after weeks of defending his record while herman cain is rising after much praised debate performance. >>> meteorologist mike nicco talking about a break beforer in storm? >> definitely, the calm before the next storm will affect the sierra. winter storm warning up there and how heavy the rain is going to be around here the next 2 to 48 hours. >>> plus, -- bart unveils a wheelchair ramp in the east bay. advocates say there are major things missing. >> south bay teacher who got a surprise gift. unbelievable gift today for the classroom.  >>> a transportation security administration at new york kenn

this after a lot of gop donors and other prominent figures such as henry kissinger encouraged christie to run. >> now is not my time. i have a commitment to new jersey that i simply will not abandon. that's a promise i made to the people of this state when i took office 20 months ago. to fix a broken new jersey. when i look at what we've accomplished so far, i'm proud. but i know we are not nearly done. >> christie's announcement as a new poll shows support for perry falling after weeks of defending his record while herman cain is rising after much praised debate performance. >>> meteorologist mike nicco talking about a break beforer in storm? >> definitely, the calm before the next storm will affect the sierra. winter storm warning up there and how heavy the rain is going to be around here the next 2 to 48 hours. >>> plus, -- bart unveils a wheelchair ramp in the east bay. advocates say there are major things missing. >> south bay teacher who got a surprise gift. unbelievable gift today for the classroom. >>> a transportation security administration at new york kennedy's airport apolo

i wrote about henry kissinger. if we read his no bell peace prize he wouldn't like some of it. it's very very hard. and he was, jobs was very smart about that. he said don't worry. i mean he thought he was going to be arou and i hoped the book would be out when he was alive. he kept saying don't worry i'm not even going to read it when it come out. >> charlie: how was it different writing this beyond the obvious. he was alive, franklin was dead. einstein was dead. >> it was astonishingly different in ways i hadn't thought of. two ways in particular. most biographers know very little really about the intimate details about their subject. and i realized how much you can actually know. i almost fell i knew more about him than i knew about myself. he was remembering things that happened to him when he was young. i was thinking, you know, it's hard for me to remember it that much. and so it was a whole, you don't have that our leaders. there are very few leaders, i can't ink of any who have been so open so that you really have a pretty full record. now there will be other people who

a tough state, and yet, you saw the republican party, the leadership of the republican party, henry kissingery reagan, all begging governor christie to get in the race, that they were excited about him. they were like teeny boppers at a justin bieber concert-- "please, governor christie, run." judy's question was, do you excite people, and as of now he doesn't. and i think that has to bother him, but i think he took a step closer to nomination. >> brown: and we saw new attention to herman kane. >> i actually have seen henry kissinger at a justin bieber concert. he's way over top. it's the season. mark talked about this in the past. the primary cycle has its own emotional rhythm. in the early day you go for the guy who gives you the thrill, whether it's howard dean or herman cain, but then you have to decide who will be president and go with the more established choice. there is no question there is suspicion of romney. there is no question he will never excite people. there will never be passionate support. that's probably pretty healthy, i think, in retrospect. but people are suspicious. wha

i've looked at the writings of henry kissinger, k.c. mcfarland, someone i respect. >> would you describe yourself as a neoconservative then? >> i'm not sure what you mean by neoconservative. i am conservative, yes. neoconservative, labels sometimes will put you in a box. i'm very conservative. >> you're familiar with the neoconservative movement? >> i'm not familiar with the neoconservative movement? i'm familiar with the conservative movement. let me define what i mean by the conservative moment p less government, less taxes, more individu responsibility. >> were the wars in iraq and afghanistan a miake? >> i don't think the war in iraq was a mistake. because there were a lot of other reasons we needed to go to iraq and there have been a lot of benefits that have come out of iraq. now that being said, i don't agrewith the president's approach to draw down 40,000 troops and basically leave that country open to attacks by iran. iran has already said that they want to wait until america leaves -- >> spresident cain would want even beyond

we've already heard the reports henry kissinger had come to him, a lot of big donors had come to him. so he felt he needed to take another look at it. i am told that he came very close to getting in. people pushed him very hard on the politics of getting in but, in the end, he decided exactly what he's been saying for the last year was he's not ready yet but he owes it to the people of new jersey to finish his job. it was the tipping point so we can ebbs inspect him to come out at 1:00 and announce that he will not be getting into the race this time. thomas is this. >> as you point out it has to be seductive to hear from all these people, especially henry kissinger and the farmers, as you point out, all across the board of wanting him to throw his hat into the ring. do you think this was a family decision? >> i really think -- i was told earlier that his family was behind him, that they had said to him whatever you want to do, that they would support, and so i don't think it was at all his wife or kids objecting to it. i think that they would have supported his getting in. i think tha

american psyche is that there was actually a negotiated end to that war nine hundred seventy three henry kissinger in the north signed a peace deal in paris. and unfortunately the north vietnamese did violated and then they pushed forward two years later and captured saigon and you remember the pictures of the helicopters taking off from the roof of the u.s. embassy so i think in the minds of a lot of american decision makers of that generation that's the idea of you should first of all never negotiate so much better when and if you do negotiate you know those guys will cheat you violate it so it's better not to negotiate and i think that's really damaging because actually that's the russians found out in the mid eighty's the only way to get out of afghanistan is to negotiate a withdrawal and they did quite successfully do that and the americans have to do it too i think the obama administration has to recognize as mikhail gorbachev did in one thousand nine hundred five that this war is unwinnable it's just a long war of attrition americans won't be defeated by such in a pitched battle but nor wil

henry kissinger line that it's dangerous to be america's enemy but it's even more dangerous to be its friend holds true once again because the was working with the united states and yet when washington decided to kind of ride the wave of the arab spring they thought they could get something out of this he was dispensable and they killed him and i think the lesson that will be learned by major powers certainly like russia and china but also smaller third world powers is don't work with the united states it doesn't say they might like you for five years and then offer you the next so that's now and this is going to my last question where do you think that libya stands as a warning to the world that any regime can be toppled by nato powers. yes to a certain extent however i think any small regime that is a third world power and if america turns against them if they decide to jump on some bandwagon like the arab spring yes they are willing to use nato however you know you hear a lot of these maniacs like john mccain and and others who are frightening clinton and russia or something like t

one would be the gentleman you just heard from, and henry kissinger. as a very nice things about him. -- would be the one you just heard from, henry kissinger. i said some very nice things about him in book. the thing i've always done remarkable about kissinger, it is the only time in history we ever had a president to resign. they manage the transition. he went out into the house. he announced that secretary kissinger would continue. there are difficult problems. it is under the most difficult political conditions. >> this is unscripted. my colleagues have brought in such a wide in the first group of political players. everyone from vice president biden to dick cheney. i like to ask you a question. and your role, and thinking of the security decisionmaking structure that the bill, there has been some critique that you took over the process. >> i'm not sure the structure is there. i come back to something i mentioned earlier. i am convinced that what makes it work are the individuals and the relationships they have. >> it is not enough that ino the oth

he said, i have to get this box to henry kissinger. sebelius said, i have demands for you, pat roberts. he is a former marine. he opens up the box and i look in and say, what is this? it was a huge ball of tin foil. i said, i just have a top- secret clearance. this is much higher than that. [laughter] i should not be seen that. there is a guy you should go meet. that is bill katz olver in bob dole's office. >> he said, ok. bob dole? i said, you are going to see bill katz. i called the secretaries. i said, we have a guy with a big box and he is going to make a big contribution. [laughter] in he went. i did not answer the phone for about three days. i will tell you how we got things done. right in the middle of the grain harvest, they said they would change the criteria in the way the grain goes across the stale. they had stopped the kansas harvest. by that time, i thought i was somebody. i was a member of congress. i said, we have to put a stop to this. i knew the meeting was held at 10:00. all the agricultural groups -- i told them, we

having written prize-winning biographies of henry kissinger and albert einstein, he just finished a biographyime," you get a special reflective essay from isaacson. >>> and now for the last look. many of you have probably seen this extraordinary speech that steve jobs game at stanford university's 2005 commencement. >> so you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. you have to trust in something, your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever, because believing that the dots will keg doconnect dow road will give you the confidence to follow your heart even when it veers off the well-worth path and that will make all the difference. >> for me, it's the best commencement speech i've ever read or watched. it strikes me as simple and profound. the reason is because we live in a culture that so event rates success. people write books, everyone tries to learn about it. but the essence of steve jobs' address was that he learned from failure. the talk is about three failures -- dropping out of college, getting fired, and being diagnosed with cancer. and how he was able to give his

that was one of the keys to american's success then henry kissinger wrote the nation is great prices reconciliation. and that is why is. big goal is to change our society's assumptions that comes by moviny'g ahead in the above theth administration o gets that right rather than focusing on the wrongs of t the predecessors to continue the hitters -- hideously pricee situation but the cost to those who have enhancedho interrogation those who have the legal guidance carry-on but the benefit this society ships away is a small price to payn >> >> a fabulous talk. i think a few months ago and op-ed piece isn't it ironic that given we have been unable was a country to come to a way to handle detainee's that we solve this problem by killinged them?now i am curious if you think that is a fair y characterization of our an improvement of our not?d, a >> that may be the toughest question. [laughter] i don't oppose in principle l but my opinion i don't know how relevant it is the reason i am standing here. i think it is a little flippant he was kind enough to writer burma -- blurb for my book but

. >> henry kissinger and a lot of others too. >> the big money men. >> they were looking for a candidate and were happy for a variety of reasons. perry scares a lot of them. he was the best bet. will they not look for somebody else? conceivably. now that they are conditioned to look outside romney. you hear reports that believe it or not seems preposterous and believe it or not rudy giuliani might jump into this. mike huckabee might jump back in. in the last few days, he has been talking about this. the idea that the field is now closed, not necessarily so. there several weeks to go before the filing deadlines are on top of us. stranger things have happened for that. >> they could take the dollar and jump in. >> there is a possibility that could happen. >> the president is streaking today in texas. i want to ask you about his take on the 2012 race as he told it to abc's george stephanopoulos. >> you the underdog? >> absolutely because given the economy, there is no doubt that whatever happens on your watch, you have -- >> you accept that quickly. >> i don't mind. i'm used to being an und

he has henry kissinger, the youngest guy on it at 93. >> andrea: in bob's defense, the reason he is notng new he has 22 of bush's former advisors. so a lot of people would say is that a smart move? >> bob: good point. >> andrea: to bring back bush's advice sors. no question that romney has the most sophisticated operation out of any of the candidates. he is doing things. but you wonder why would he do something so controversial? this is much less about romney and more about bush. why open yourself up to that? >> greg: what a surprise. like shakira. >> bob: i can understand why he needs to talk about foreign policy. he has laid out position on jobs which is ridiculous, but the point of this is if you are going to do something on this, call for something significant? did you deal with the united states and china? >> eric: because he is winning. you're a football guy, right? if you are running the ball and getting four or five, six yards every carry, why do you start throwing the ball? you don't. >> bob: any president or pathial wannabe has to address the united states and chinese relation

he was right, when the kind of people that came to him and encouraged him to think about this, henry kissinger, chuck swab, a large number of names that leaked into the public environment, and he owed it to them and he owed it to himself to take a careful look at it, and it sounds like from his statement today he did so and came up with the same conclusion that he went in with. but he's right, when those kind of people approach you and said you need to think seriously about this, he had to think seriously about it. >> so who wins today? what candidate benefits from him being a no again? >> well, that's -- let's step back for just a minute because this is one of several big actions that has impacted the race. we've had the recent debates, which have advantaged some candidates and disadvantaged others and the pace of those debates is going to continue. we've got two more in october, we have some in november, we have some in december. second, the big thing that impacted all of this is that 1/2 moved up its primary to the 28th of february -- excuse me, 28th of january which is causing other states

some republicans he idolizes including former first lady nancy reagan, former secretary of state henry kissinger and former president george w. bush." sources said. the new jersey "star ledger" adds, "in addition, the governor's wife, mary pat, no longer objects to a presidential run according to an adviser to the governor. a few months ago, former first lady barbara bush called mary pat to assuage her concerns about life in the white house, the adviser said." the christie excitement surge continues even though there have been exactly no national polls that show christie's support level among the current republican field of candidates. more importantly, christie has not been included in any of the key early state primary polls. the latest new hampshire poll, for example, shows mitt romney with a commanding lead there with 41% of the vote. rick perry runs fourth in new hampshire, with 8% of the vote. the latest south carolina poll shows perry essentially tied with romney. a slight lead within the margin of error. and the latest florida poll shows perry nine points ahead of mitt romney. there is a

he knows, look, as i said, i admire a man who in spite of all the persuasive power, henry kissinger, he gets up at this meeting and says gone i never been involved in domestic politics before. i want you to know the what foreign leaders look for in all leaders, character and courage. i ask you to run. then he sat down. that's all he said. you name it. john whitehead came. i invited him i wanted him to meet governor christie. thpeople, i have people that are enormously wealthy at that time have never picked up a phone to raise a nickel for anybody called memoranda and -- called me and said i'll call everyone i know to hit them up for money. >> charlie: in thend he said he could not go. he wouldn't close the door in the future. >> no, but i'm not sure, look i'm not second guessing him. the tonic he's giving to new york -- new jersey, the tonic he's giving to new jersey is a little bitter from time to time. the tonic we have to take in america is not all roses and cream. we have to take some pain. >> charlie: you are an articulate, very articulate and passionate man. you always put your

how do we actually get that foreign policy that, you know, henry kissinger spoke about that combines realism and diplomacy? so this is a tremendous opportunity for the united states in its foreign policy and along a variety of tracks to take advantage of. >> it's a high wire act, to say the least. roya, congratulations on the book. >> thank you. >> "assassins of the turquoise palace," fun title, too, assassins always get people to open the book, and then it's the book. all the best with this. matt, it's been too long, hope to talk to you again soon. >>> coming up here on "the d.r. show," will the president's new housing plan keep you in your new house or your house or simply keep this president in the white house? >>> plus, the end of wikileaks, whether the secret-spilling site could soon go dark. >>> and worm, the best-selling author of "blackhawk down" joins us to reveal details of the v s first digital world war that you probably didn't even know already happened. [ male announcer ] tom's discovering that living healthy can be fun. see? he's taking his vitamins. new one a day vita