here nixon is the magician and henry kissinger is the invisible figure behind the nixon sign. how that changed over the course of a year really, very quickly, where kissinger became the magician. kissinger became the guy who did all of these marvelous things that no one could imagine or kissinger became the essential figure of stability at a time when the nixon presidency was crumbling. so while kissinger is the magician's assistant here, he became the main act very quickly. >> one thing i want to point things toward is the value of patrick oliphant's archive for us understanding this entire era, because we have right now today 15 cartoons that give us a really nice snapshot of this period in history. and what strikes me even as we're talking here, as i would think about teaching students about the value of perspective and maybe we're in a post-truth phase of american life right now, i don't know if we are. but history is one of these things where everybody has their own opinion about it, and we use our evidence. and to be able to look through this lens of art and commentary th

henry kissinger was u.s. president gerald ford secretary of state at the time in the 1974 document that was long kept classified he demanded the massive d. population of developing countries and declared abortion to be an indispensable tool for population control. no country has reduced its population growth without resorting to abortion. where women in the united states were still heading to the streets to demand the right to control their own bodies american foundations and politicians were pressuring developing countries to legalize abortion. in the following decades a massive surplus of men was created in asia through the abortion of daughters the consequences are omnipresent in india today once again those who suffer most are girls and women of low socio economic standing like 19 year olds the gina. and. 2 days with her brother's family he is her protector and saved her life 3 years ago when she suddenly disappeared from her village. flashback after vanished sold everything travelled 2000 kilometers to n

henry kissinger said famously "i don't think the issue of proliferation really ever came up. " the fact was we trusted this close american ally enough that we believed whatever he said when it came to nuclear program. it doesn't mean we gave him a carte blanche, there were limits on how much nuclear cooperation the u.s. was prepared to undertake with iran. it wa the same -- it wasn't the same atmosphere of distrust that exists today. 1979, revolution breaks out. iran's nuclear program is completely abandoned. not because the u.s. put this huge amount of pressure on iran, but because iran chose to abandon its nuclear program after 1979. the one who came to power felt the nuclear program was yet another example of the excessive fascination with shiny western objects and technology, things that were not islamic, that were not authentic to an islamic republic, and that it should be abandoned. this is not just the idea of nuclear weapons, this was the nuclear program completely. they said weapons of destruction were a sin against islam. he cited a lot of text against these kinds of weapons o

some of the most vigorous advocates of iranian nuclear program in the 1970s were people like henry kissinger, donald rumsfeld and dick cheney in the ford administration in the mid 1970s. look at some of the documents, you'll see how vigorous they pushed this. they felt it was important for iran. you often hear the talking points from opponents, vigorous opponents of iran. why does iran need nuclear power? no one can take seriously the idea they would need nuclear power, they're such an oil-rich nation, right? the united states actually felt that iran needed nuclear power and the basic reason for this -- i don't want to get into too many details about this, but if you have oil it doesn't make sense to build complicated refineries to then use that oil to -- for domestic power purposes. it's kind of a waste of time and money. if you have huge amounts of oil you're much better selling it on the international market, using that money to develop a domestic and much more sustainable nuclear -- much more sustainable energy program that will last for many years after the energy has run out. the u.s.

the time was right for selective assassination of prosecutors, of policemen, of politicians, of henry kissinger you can say, well, these people are all in a hothouse environment, you know, churning out these papers, and this is just, this is all rubbish. but the thing that is interesting, the sort of counter narrative to that is when susan rosenberg and timothy blunk were captured, and when alan berkman, doctor berkman, and betty ann duke, another member who also is still at large, she jumped bail in 1985 and the fbi still wants her. she is on the fbi's website. they were wearing disguises. they had nine-millimeter pistols fully loaded, chamber in round, and they had storehouses that were uncovered during, after the arrest they were sort of storage lockers and things like that. so what did they have in these lockers? hundreds and hundreds of pounds of tnt, which was in pretty bad shape, i've learned more about hercules dynamite than i ever expected. nitroglycerin was weeping out and extremely dangerous, but thousands of rounds of ammunition, detonation cord, blasting caps and dozens of small ar

president richard nixon and his secretary of state henry kissinger arrived in beijing in 1972 it was a historic meeting with moussa tongue about the balance of power and the mutual commitment to world peace. there is no reason for us to be enemies. neither of us domination over the other. neither of us seek to stretch out our. and weigh the world. with the fear of the americans of chinese supremacy and thus the supremacy of communism was great and the fear that chinese population growth seemed unstoppable . after nixon's visit the floodgates opened for western family planners the chinese government had a sympathetic ear for them. modest success or deng xiaoping introduced the one child policy millions were trained as lay health workers the so-called barefoot doctors their mission distributing contraceptives all over the country and ensuring that couples only had one child. in. the. way of. your. family planning became a matter of state if anyone expected a 2nd child and they faced draconian punishments. the government used graffiti on building facades warning people to obey you can b

w call henry kissinger right now, do call the president of the e.u.d definitely speak for italy or greece, does he speak for germany. i don't know. you have not sorted that out. i think there's going to be a lot of pressure in the union to invert more to a model of the original european common market. it stopped trade barriers, encourage free-trade within the european nation but don't have an e.u., china tell a person company inches of banana has to be a banana. that type of simple control i think. bill: hello doctor hanson, do you think this will create a generation similar to the golden generation. this crisis affect the toughness of our current generation. victor: when we talk about the greatest generation, we characterize that like to send expenses pretty 9029 - 1939 and that was a dedicated and they then they fought a world which cost 70 million people. almost 500,000 americans. and don't see this crisis lasting as long as those two crises are taking as much life from a much smaller population pretty but what i do think it will do, get a dose of

henry kissinger wrote in "the wall street journal" last week, predicting the world order would change dramatically. lauren has kind of a more pointed version of that. after the world watched our response to the pandemic, and with china power,g as an economic political power, is this crisis marking the end of the western fragility on earth? sec. rice: i think we have had that for quite some time. there is an old saying that the united states finally gets it right after it tried everything else. there have been a lot of times when we started slowly. world war ii, we started slowly. but pretty soon, the great capacity of this country to churn out war materials, to put women to work when the men had gone to war, the ability of individuals, the private sector to really step up and mobilize, that is what made us able to alternately defeat the german war machine. see some element of that now. i saw a very interesting little piece this morning that people are making masks. anybody who is making a sewing machine is making masks now and selling them on various sites we could have more masks tha

this tape was made the day before henry kissinger flew to paris to include the deal with north vietnam. to close the deal. they suspect that the north is finally willing to accept nixon's demands. he has had the president of south vietnam briefed on those demands. the president of south vietnam actually left when he heard them and said, this will keep us going for a little while, but i will have to commit suicide at this point to destroy our country. kissinger is going to explain to nixon his tape take on that. >> harry kissinger says our terms will destroy him in private. two weeks before the election and send the north has accepted our terms and we believe that pieces that hand. they were very clever about arranging it so that it look like they had one when they had just done a controlled form of fallout. trump there are scared this will be the consequence. nixon and kissinger were clever to arrange it to look like they had one when they had just in a controlled form of fallout. trump can do that. the last time that they discussed their plans and public, his plans were to bring the l

this tape is -- was made the day before henry kissinger flew to paris to close the deal with north vietnam he suspects and he is correct that the north is finally willing to accept nixon's demands. he has had the president of south vietnam, our ally, briefed on those demands and the president of south vietnam actually wept when he heard them and said, this will keep us going for a while -- a little while but i'm going to have to commit suicide and this is going to destroy our country. kissinger is going to explain to nixon his take on that. >> kissinger says, our terms will destroy him in private, is the same kissinger who goes out in front of the cameras and says, the north has accepted our terms, we believe peace is at hand. nixon and kissinger were very clever about arranging it so it looked like they had won when in fact, they had just done what i think buzz lightyear called a controlled form of falling. sorry, that was woody talking about buzz. trump can do that. the last time that they discussed their plans in public, his plans were to bring the last american troops home sometime in

extent, and this sounds overly grand, i know, but i think it has the virtue of being true, as henry kissinger used to say, enlightenment is on trial here. the facts and data that shape human decisions, because they are objectively true, that is something that is now very much under assault. i think it absolutely begins at the top. the other thing i hoped at the beginning of this is this would not become a per accepetual or referendum on this particular president. see the previous point. it is simply a fact that he is not communicating coherently and universally truthfully about what we face. it is very curious. he's become this anti-federalist figure from the 18th century, right? suddenly, state's rights. he loves, you know, the idea of, somehow or other, the border between my state and kentucky and mississippi and georgia and alabama, somehow or another, the virus will see a border and go, other, it's a republican governor, i won't go there. it doesn't work that way. so i think that people are hungry for direction. i think they're hungry for coherent information. you can find it. god bless t

and finally the panel of discussion will be moderated by this professor, he is henry kissinger distinguished professor of distinguished affairs -- he is also a columnist for bloomberg opinion. he is the author and editor of many books, and what good is strategy and power and purpose from harry truman to w. bush. he served as the special assistant for strategic planning for 2015 to 2016. please join me in welcoming a distinguished panel of scholars. yes (applause) thank you very much, i would like to thank our host for putting on this event. it is a lot of fun to get together with the folks who worked to bring this book to fruition and so many of the policy makers who share their time and insights with us. it is a pleasure for me to be here on the stage with three gentlemen who were not only importantly involved in the decision-making that led to the surge, and to its implementation, we are also very generous with their time and insights. the basic run of show is that each of them will have some comments, and i will ask a couple of questions from the group. then we will open it up to the grou

out that nixon was not receiving the president's daily brief as a stand-alone product but that henry kissingerwas having the national security staff "cook it" along with a lot of other information, into a morning briefing memo, that his staff would write. and he would use that when he met with the president in that morning briefing. the c. i. a. is largely out of the picture during that period. as i say, this is what the president wants. some national security councils have been highly structured. for example, eisenhower ran it like a big military staff. we have become enneured with the idea that every day the president should get a briefing from the c. i. a. or the dni. that's the president's choice. is it going to be our leadership? how is the whole process going to be structured? under eisenhower, intelligence was part only of a weekly national security council meeting. the president got the daily product but it was simply not part of the daily discourse at the white house. it's a very different kind of environment back then than in later years, when much of the agency is constantly spun up

brands is the henry kissinger distinguished professor of global affairs at the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. he's also a columnist for bloomberg opinion and a scholar at the american enterprise institute. dr. brands is the author and editor of many books including "american grand strategy in the age of trump" published just a year ago and "what good is grand strategy power and purpose in american state craft from harry truman to george w. bush." professor brand served as special assistant to the secretary of defense for strategic planning from 2015 to 2016. so please join me in welcoming a very distinguished panel of scholars, practitioners this afternoon. [ applause ] >> thank you very much. and i would also like to thank our hosts here at smu for putting on this event today. it's a lot of fun to get together with the folks who work to bring this book to fruition and so many of the policymakers who share their time and insights for us and it's a pleasure for me to be up here on the stage with three gentleman who are not only importantly involved in decision-m

[laughter] and henry kissinger. >> this was 1967. >> a couple of questions working with robert kennedy as a special assistant years earlier and the era of civil rights to reopen the schools in prince edward county that have been shut down for four years by whites who refused to enforce brown versus board of education in defiance of that decision tell us about the lessons you drew from that experience of that ongoing urgent quest for racial justice. >> it's difficult to remember the state of virginia led the fight against desegregation and against brown v board of education the massive resistance were the words that were used. head of the political system in virginia and once that decision was absorbed virginia took the position that yes the supreme court might order us to desegregate schools that they cannot order us to have schools there is nothing in the constitution to obligate us to have an educational system so they use it as a test case this extraordinary county and the heartland of virginia of prince edward county between the states and prince edward county is where robert e. le