a person who was in an obscure harvard professor whose name was henry kissinger. henry kissinger joined the white house on a part-time basis, because he was still busy at harvard, and he was the only real european hand. he was very unhappy with the way kennedy and his staff handled berlin and handled other problems, because their focus on moscow was in his mind the wrong thing. he thought they should focus on western europe, because that was our principal ally. he met with kennedy. he liked kennedy. he's told me that. he liked kennedy. they had good conversations. somehow or other, they were not on the same page. kissinger was discouraged because he out that kennedy would yield too much to the soviets. so he resigned before the end of 1961, with a note to walt rustar, who was also working at the white house. note said the following, "i'm in position of a man sitting next to a driver, kennedy, who i heading for a precipice. i'm being asked to make sure the tires are properly inflated and the oil pressure is adequate. as far as kissinger was concerned, it was not th

at one point testing it out by calling the vatican and woz pretended to be henry kissinger saying he was at a summit meeting and needed to speak to the public. i can see woz nodding at this one. as far as i can tell they never really got the pope on the phone. the college of cardinals was smart enough to figure out it was not henry kissinger calling but they should this thing off and steve told me when he described as that story and the blue box story that if it was not for the blue box it wouldn't have been apple. that is pretty profound. >> why did he feel that way? what did they do together? >> very complementary meaning they complemented each other well. he would say to woz that 50 times better than an engineer, define great circuit boards. woz had been taught being an engineer is the highest calling so he never thought about putting it in a package or maybe we should get the good power supply and integrate and may be sell it twice or three times the cost of our materials. so what steve did as he did his whole life leaders will take really great ideas and come up with a great vis

henry kissinger, mcfarland. >> are you a neoconservative, then? >> i'm not sure what you mean by neoconservative. i am a conservative, yes. neoconservative, labels sometimes put you in a box. >> you're familiar with the neoconservative movement? >> i'm not. i'm familiar with the conservative movement, and let me define what i mean by the conservative movement. less government, less taxes, more individual responsibility. >> an individual on the court cain admired. >> i believe justice clarence thomas he basically rules and makes his decision in my opinion based on the constitution and solid legal thinking. justice clarence thomas is one of our models. >> has he been targeted unfairly? >> i think he has been. >> that answer would prove to the prophetic as well. shortly after his appearance on the program, his campaign was confronted with reports of sexual harassment allegations from the past. cain maintained they were false and the public's focus turned to his relationship with his wife. let me ask you about your family, your wife of 43 years. we ha

kissinger says no one less needs an introduction than henry kissinger. no one enjoys one more.t may have been better introducing willie brown saying that than dianne feinstein. i digress. i was just reminded of that quote. willie, don't take offense and please don't write about that on sunday. [laughter] >> i'm just, as diane knows, i'm a big fan that goes back to my high school days when i was that little nervous teenager that was invited in the mayor's office. she asked me what i was interested in, a shakespeare class i was talking. next day, a beautiful book, collective works of shakespeare, 300 pages, it hasn't been open. i did open the first page, there is the mayor of san francisco, dianne feinstein. i still proudly have that book on my bookshelf. i have been a fan since then. boy, do you get to know someone on a personal basis and work with them and you get to admire them more. i drive around this city, i kid you not, i see so much of the work that you probably don't know senator feinstein thas has done. a lot of work at hunter's point cleaning up the shipyards, dianne f

henry kissinger, pat buchanan, criss angel mind freak, bagger vance, grima wormtongue, roscoe the superintelligent ferret, 1.5 times as intelligent as a normal ferret so like a dumb raccoon. chuck todd, and a roll of quarters. so now that my exploretation-- exploration has come to an end. who knows what i am going to it maybe i will be like herman cain and hit the road in a bus with my face on it. maybe i'll hit the road in a bunch of tiny cars each way different part of my face on it we'll figure it out. me and all that delicious money. because since i am no longer a possible candidate, i am officially offering to retake control of the definitely not coordinating with steve stephen colbert superpac. to give it back to me, ladies and gentlemen, please welcome jon stewart. (cheers and applause) jon? bhas's jon? jon? where's jon? he's at the daily show? jimmy, jimmy, open up the satellite link to the daily. jon, jon, what is going on? remember, remember when you gave me the superpac, remember how we didn't coordinate that you would give it back to me if i decided not to run? >> jon: i do remember no

issues that we have to deal with as a country that she has been front and center in the way of henry kissinger and colin powell >> cond lisa rice was going head to head with the big players. >> but during her ten your, it was said that she didn't have the impact that cheney had. only after the -- >> i want to say this. she's had a lot more power and autonomy than some of the secretary of states that you named. the. >> autonomy? >> she has a lot of power. she's completely over the people that came to the state. she's over them herself. she has a lot of power. >> terms of egypt. when they started the arab spring, i saw iran breaking out all over the middle east. >> that's not true because she did -- first of all, she was involved in watching what was going on there and deciding how much any u.s. intervention there should be. when they start rolling back women's rights, that week, she came out and made a statement and -- >> i said on women's rights, she's the feminist sem -- secretary of state. i'm more interested in the u.s. role -- >> it was a major role in egypt. now, can we just talk about he

the new list includes data on former vice president dan quayle and former secretary of state henry kissingerncludes address frs government domains dot gov and dot mil. and corporations that include bank of america, exxon, and goldman sachs. the group recently stole credit card information from stratfor clients and made charitable donations with that money. >>> bp filed a lawsuit seeking at least $20 billion from halliburton related to the deepwater horizon oil spill. bp says it wants to be reimbursed for cleaning up the spill, lost profits, as well as all costs and damages related to the 2010 disaster. the explosion on the deepwater horizon rig killed 11 workers and spewed more than 4 million barrels of oil into the gulf. the incident sparked a series of lawsuits and citations against the companies involved. >>> it's a big night for hooky fans. virginia tech is looking for a bcs bowl win against the michigan in the sugar bowl tonight. it's michigan's first bowl appearance since 2006. you can watch that game tonight on espn. >>> the expected top pick in the nfl draft this year ran out of luck

overall now as henry kissinger said there is no telephone number for europe. so there is obviously huge differences depending on which country you go to. the interesting thing is, which i believe say very sensitive indicator for the eurozone crisis for the budget situation there is the five year or ten year bond yields. and you saw that they have been shooting up last year. and then they've constantly been coming down. and if you look particularly not last week, they are substantially down. and i believe that this would only happen if people are not regaining confidence in the,actions that are taken by the countries as well as by europe in total. so i am probably more optimistic than people are on that end. >> susie: very interesting. >> it is a big problem and it's going to take some time and it's go stock very different for specific countries in europe. >> susie: moving back to the u.s., you did announce that you are closing some plants on friday, you announced that. do you see that you are going to have to cut doses-- costs in other parts of your operation

who was then a rather obscure harvard professor who has gone on to other things, whose name was henry kissinger. he joined the white house on a part-time basis because he was very unhappy with the way kennedy and his staff handled berlin and handled other problems because their focus on moscow was in his mind, the wrong thing. he thought they should focus on western europe because that was our principle ally. he liked kennedy. he told me that. he liked kennedy and they had very good conversations but somehow or other, they were not on the same page. and kissinger was discouraged because they thought kennedy would yield to much to the soviets so he resigned before the end of 1961 with a note to rostou who was also working at the white house and it said -- i'm in the position of a man sitting next to a driver, kennedy, who is heading for a precipice and i'm being asked to make sure that the tires are properly inflated and that the oil pressure is adequate. as far as kissinger was concerned that was not the kind of role that he envisioned for himself and it was certainly not the kind of role he ha

[laughter] [applause] and i also love his autobiography on henry kissinger. partly because henry kissinger was the first man to reassure me when i moved to new york that having an accent was not a problem. [laughter] and he said to me, you can never underestimate in american public life the complete advantages of either incomprehensibility. [laughter] there is no question that, not just at this time but particularly this week, the media is an incredible time of transition. i happen to be in london and we were launching the -- when the phone-hacking scandal started and it was amazing to see two things. first of all, how incredibly irrelevant the debates between the old media and new media is. there's an institution of old media. not an abstract blogger, not having that supervision but it incredible institution on the british press that was acting in a way that would have been utterly disgusting coming from anywhere in the media universe and it was new media that played a huge part in bringing the news of the world down so fast. it was amazing watching what was

we will hear remarks from henry kissinger, stephen hadley and former deputy national security adviser the associate program is an hour and 25 minutes. [applause] >> my name is ruth robbins and on behalf of -- is a pleasure to welcome you here for our program. before begin i would like to remind you to turn off your cell phones, blackberries or anything else that might make any kind of noise and also to remind you photography or videotaping of our program is -- [inaudible] tonight we look at the world of the national security advisory, one of the most important jobs. the advisers are appointed by the president's to advise him on issues related to national security, which has we all know can take many different forms. we have an excellent and esteemed panel of experts with us tonight to help us explore these questions and many more, doctrine or kissinger, stephen hadley, james steinberg and jane harman. we will meet all of the speakers in a moment but first i would like to introduce our moderator for this evening. ken walsh is the chief white house correspondent for u.s. news and public

vice president dan quayle and former secretary of state henry kissinger.also includes addresses from the government domains dot gov and dot mil. bae systems, lockheed martin, and corporations bank of america, exxon, and goldman sachs. the stolen e-mail addresses claim after anonymous claim they stole credit card numbers from stratfor and used the money to make donations to charities over the holidays. >>> bp filed a lawsuit seeking at least $20 billion from halliburton related to the deepwater horizon oil spill. bp wants to be reimbursed for cleaning up the spill, lost profits, and all damages related to the 2010 disaster. the explosion on the deepwater horizon rig killed 11 workers and spilled more than 4 million barrels of oil into the gulf of mexico. it sparked several lawsuits and citations against the companies involved. >>> a cold blast is heading our way, and it's already causing a mess in parts of michigan and indiana. plow drivers were out clearing at least three inches of lake effect snow in indiana. the near whiteout conditions forced officials

he was as famous as henry kissinger who hasn't been replaced and many people like bill from that eraaven't been replaced. there is a judge from chicago, you perhaps know him. he is a moral idiot at any rate. i think it's probably an idiot. he is excellent at crossword puzzles or something. [laughter] but at any rate, he wrote an essay some years ago about lamenting the loss of public intellectuals from the square. i would ask the learned judge where the hell that public intellectual would perform today because who would listen to him or her? there is not such a creature because as burkart said there is a time and place for things and things reach their fullness at a time and frankly we have kind of pass the time today for public intellectuals. that was bill's time and i guess i would also say that i got to thinking about this and i thought, what is necessary for it public and select? i hate the term. let's just say an intellectual. i think maybe the first celebrated intellectual in the 20th century, and that's about the time that was ripe for this economy, was h.l. mencken. he was ri

henry kissinger achieved agreements in paris in 1973, and then two years later it was violated by the north vietnamese. i mean, there were some charges the u.s. violated certain aspects, south vietnamese had violated certain aspects, but the dominant violation came from the northern side, sent troops across the dmz into south vietnam and captured various cities, including saigon. so i think for a certain generation of u.s. policymakers, there's a feeling that negotiations are a sign of weakness, we don't quit, we don't give up, we fight, we prevail. plus if you do negotiate, the supporters, the day goes, the watts, what if you want to call them, can't be trusted because you see they will tear up the paper we signed and the arches. we are not quitters, they are cheaters. so that i think makes it much harder politically for the obama administration, 100% for the day she sent unless we get the public to come in behind the idea but it doesn't become another childish juvenile thing, you're quitting, nowhere not, yes, you are, and so on. gimmick other questions? >> i'm a little bit of a neg

i mean, for christopher hitchens to look at henry kissinger and his involvement in the assassination and murder of a democratically-elected socialist in chile and conclude that he is a war criminal and then to look at the more egregious behavior of george bush and his lying getting us into iraq and the murder of thousands of iraqis and the murder of saddam hussein and conclude he is not a war criminal and the fact that christopher hitchens would totally belittle anyone who remotely questioned 9/11 leads me to the conclusion that even the sharpest mind can be dulled by privilege. now, we've lost that very sharp mind. perhaps christopher hitchens had already lost his mind before he died, and i'd just appreciate your comments. >> guest: well, as somebody who has lived in disintegrating societies, i would certainly agree that human beings are not particularly rational. freud got this in civilization and its discontents. written on the eve of world war ii. where he talked about two forces, both within the individual and within the society. one being that force of eros, of love, of nurturi

then it expanded to cambodia which was actually the most intense bombing in history following henry kissinger's immortal phrase, "anything that flies against anything that moves." those were the orders handed down by kissinger from his boss to the air force and the bombing, a brief period just a couple of years, we now know reached the level of old allied bombing in the pacific region, the entire pacific region during world war ii including the two atom bombs. all in a remote peasant, poor peasant society. a lot of consequences to that. very ugly ones. but it finally more or less ended. but it didn't end, as fred pointed out. the effects of the chemical warfare continued and will continue. the, soon turned into, very quickly turned into crop destruction, major war crimes. fred can tell you a lot her about this than i can, so i won't go on with it. just add one more word about it. there are serious consequences to not paying attention to what we've done in the past. one of them's just moral. if we're incapable of facing up to our own history, we're in trouble morally and a serious problem. but i

>> guest: nobody really didn't talk to me to be i just tried to talk to dick cheyne and henry kissinger. i made some overtures and cheney was interested but he was working on his book and had a heart ailment issue. and then kissinger like it never really nailed down. by then i have already -- i was pretty far along in the film. c-span: the most voluble new thing in your film? >> guest: i would say scowcroft's honesty is really the show of how much opposition there was against my father's forthcoming testimony before congress was really revealing to me. it shows the push and pull that all these secret operations are now wonder the looking glass. c-span: the name of the documentary is "the man nobody knew." that's william colby, who was the former cia director and you're father, carl coby. we are out of time and i think you very much. >> guest: thank you very much, brian. ..

on afterwards energy analyst and author daniel jurgen and later henry kissinger participate in a discussion about how the white house makes national security decisions. >> already made up his mind. this site already made up its mind. and it comes -- >> dr. brinkley writes at the university -- [talking over each other] >> anything i wanted -- [talking over each other] >> be quiet. you be quiet. you don't know me. [talking over each other] >> i will remind members -- [talking over each other] >> you worked a day >> the confrontation at a congressional hearing between representative don young of alaska and historian douglas brinkley ranked as the fourth most watched video in the c-span video library. watch it for yourself on our home page c-span.org/videolibrary and click on the most watched have to few other videos from the past year. what you want when you want. >> in 1992 four kurdish and iranian dissidents were killed at a berlin restaurant when two gunman shot at them with machine guns. roya hakakian discussed the attack and the criminal trial in her book "assassins of the turquoise palac

he was the same as henry kissinger, and many people like bill from that era haven't been replaced. there's a judge from chicago, you perhaps know him, an idiot named posner. a moraledat. excellent at crossword puzzles or something. but at any rate, posner wrote an is say some years ago about -- lamenting the loss of public intellectual from the square. i asked the learned judge where the hell that public intellectual performed and who would listen to him or her? there's not such a creature because there's -- well, there's a time and place for things, and things reach their fullness in a time, and, frankly, we have kind of passed the time today for public intellectuals. that was bill's time. and i guess i would also say -- i got to thinking about this, and i thought, what is necessary for a public intellectual? i hate the term. let's just say an intellectual. and i think maybe the first, celebrated intellectual in the 20th century, and that's about the time that was ripe for this kind of intellectual, was hl menkin, and he was ripe because, a., he was thoughtful and witty, but also,

after henry kissinger, i thought i'm nerve going do that again. >> there's a story that president clintoninitely approached me. people have talked to clinton about it but he didn't approach me. i think he's, you know, kicking around whether he's going to write his own. he's done memoirs, but there's still the clinton presidency to write. let me deflect that question. >> you're deflecting very well. >> no, no, no. the answer is, no, he never said, please write my biography. >> but something happened there, didn't it? >> no. think it's an interesting project to take on and i think at some poilkt he's going to look for somebody, but i'm hem not that person. >> might you at some point be the person? >> no, i doentz thin't think so charlie. i don't -- >> i refuse to answer on the grounds it may tend to incriminate me. steve jobs said one of the reasons why he approached you is because you can get people to tauchlkt i'm wondering what that skill is, walter, that you can get people to talk with you. >> ask charlie. >> no. we're sitting at the table with the master. i was fascinated by all the pe

. >> henry kissinger said if it's bad news, get it out early as possible. >> even if it's news that people are interested in. if they're interested in your tax returns you're running for president of the united states or governor of new jersey, let people see it. get back to the issues. >> if you don't, it looks like you're hiding something. >> i guess people could conclude that. my view is take the issue away. we're talking about creating jobs, reviving the economy. the things that republicans want to talk about and the failed record of this president. the longer we talk about when you're going to release tax returns shall the less time we're spending on those issues. >> he seems to be dancing around the idea of what his wealth is. this is the new york times today. romney riches are seeing as new hurdle complex web of assets is difficult to assess. your philosophy seems to be, tell him how much you're worth and say you're proud of it. every american wants to be rich. >> i don't think there's anything to be ashamed of that he's been a successful guy in the private sector and made money. bu

i did henry kissinger.ent clinton approached you as steve jobs approached you. >> oh, no. steve jobs definitely approached me. i talked to people, you know -- i talked to clinton about it and people close to him, but he didn't approach me. i think he's kicking around whether he's going to write his own. he's done memoirs, but there's still the clinton presidency to write. let me deflect that question. >> you're deflecting very well. >> the answer is no. he never said, please, write my biography. >> but something happened here, didn't there? >> no, i think it's an interesting project to take on. i think he's probably at some point going to look for somebody, but i'm not that person. >> but might you at some point be that person? >> i don't think so, charlie. it's just -- i don't know. i don't think so. doesn't seem like it's for me. >> but steve jobs said that one of the reasons why he approached you is because you can get people to talk. i'm wondering what that skill is, walter. if you can get people to tal

>> when i worked for henry kissinger, he always insisted you need three options to present to the president so we always thought, well, this is just -- we're sick of hearing this, so we did a joke memo; option a with this in proposed policy, all-out war. option b, surrender and capitulation. option c, something else. so we wrote the spoof, and it got all the way to president ford's desk before he picked it up and said, what's this? you do want an option c, and with iran we've had two options; bomb iran which leads to a regional war, but iran gets a bomb which means everybody in the region gets nuclear weapons, so that's why we need option c, use the economic weapon. jenna: and even the higher oil prices would be worth it -- >> well, you wouldn't necessarily have higher oil prices. and in the past we weren't nest about option c with iran, but the saudis have come out and said they'll sell more oil, they'll open the pumps and compensate for the iranian losses. and the other thing that's happened is in the last couple years the american energy industry has developed natural gas and oil, so we

i think once the withdrawal starts, it's henry kissinger's famous line from vietnam. positive thing and we need to get there. the la two years i think is a failure of strategy and essentially moving to vice president biden's original idea a small footprint and use the special forces which president obama has demonstrated he can use quite effectively and get out of the nation of -- >> when we say the war is drawing down it's the war of tens of thousands of troops. what about the second front which is the nato night raids and and the drone strikes in pakistan. that war seems to be a permanent war. are you concerned about that, michael? >> i'm concerned about it. i think that -- this gets into the larger issue of sort of the permanent national security state and how do you roll that back? and i think, you know, president -- i think one of the sort of things that has happened to us is we have got stuck in post-9/11 thinking, spell on foreign policy where the gross overreaction to september 11th we are still feeling the effects to do. as the tide of war recedes, what are t

greece to the state and even before that to england i had this issue with my accent and that henry kissinger. and said you can never underestimate the incredible advantages. in american public life of complete and incomprehensible that the. [laughter] i want to start by saying something about the mayor of the liberal side. i met him before he was mayor and when he was a speaker in the california wine from 1999 and interestingly enough when they are organized by united way that had just built the freeport called a tale of two cities about what was becoming an los angeles, the major problem of child poverty, homelessness etc. in the middle of a building prosperity and at the time i remember antonio that said if you want a future and i am quoting him, where you have to walk around with a bodyguard, then continuing to acknowledge is the way to get there. now the irony is the was 1999. and 2012 things are infinitely worse and things are much better. [laughter] in fact it is experiencing an amazing have poured mobility. while we are experiencing amazing downward mobility. indeed a report just came