peter: the forward for your book was written by henry kissinger. preaches by james baker, two republicans. stuart: yes, because i wanted to show that what's critical about diplomacy is that it be bipartisan. if we're going to be successful, we have to show a united front and one of the concerns i have really in today's world is there's so much domestic polarization where your opponent is not just the honorable opposition. they're your enemy and when the foreign countries with whole american diplomats are negotiating see that kind of division at home, they are strengthened against us and we have less leverage so, for example, putin now in ukraine. he looks at the fact it took six months to get in panel of funding and he feels like he can just wait us out so this polarization is tremendously i think, a weight on the shoulders of di policemen city and to have a very good diplomatic posture, the u.s. needs to be strong militarily, economically but also politically. i wrote the book really for three reasons. the first is, we're living in an era of seemi

young man, there was at that time the for an minute style for and said free of the united states, henry kissinger. and there was on a so d o a minute step code ship is zaki omani. and at that time, that is when the quantum, the of the wire, the was a dollar eyes on, through the doing that. or i vision all the international economy, the whole idea of the pit for a girl that came about as i speak to you now. on my see does may very well be conservative, almost 80 percent 7, something between 70 to 80 percent of international trade is a i mean they that in the united states dollar, in other words, i'm in nairobi, kenya, and i use a visa card or american express it is expressed in don't let them know the words, the banking system internationally is controlled by the west. it is swift. swift may be registered in belgium. but if i'm transferring money from after i and gone, uh, there's 2 legacy nigeria. it must go through a corresponding bank in new york before it comes back. that is how i don't mean and the international money for the system is got to see of the west. and if you're not dealing with th

but another newsweek contributor, i was there was a guy named henry kissinger and i he had more clouthan i did. so, you know we were working uphill to get over that. and you realized even though the washington post company, which owned newsweek, you know, had done watergate aid and they'd had this terrific success when they had a real adversarial, honest, adversarial patience with the nixon administration during the reagan, things changed. and i think people a lot of reporters fell prey to the glamor of the reagan administration. they hanging out that way. you know, when i was in my early career, one of my mentors was the late, great journalist, i.f. stone. and when i was around three or so, i was i was in washington and i was talking to him and breakfast with him once a week. and i told him i was going to a party and i was going see i think it was senator, senator teddy kennedy back then. he said, no, you're not. you start hanging out with them. you're to be carrying water for them. and, you know, the is i think it's all about to it up to today. it's about access and too many reporte

henry kissinger first book his doctoral dissertation the world restored is about the peace conference at vienna following, the great napoleonic wars, which aimed not at transformation but at stability and. kissinger is very approving of the statesmanship of those who made the peace. vienna. i have always read that book as an indirect of woodrow wilson for trying to go further and yet realize i'm settling for what you get. try not trying to beyond what seems feasible, the time also has its after all for david ben-gurion and for the jewish in israel and mandatory palestine by the british. a jewish was simply a dream. a dream up by a viennese journalist, theodor herzl, although with deep roots in the jewish tradition, the bible and gurion left poland at the beginning of the 19th century and came to this swampy, malaria ridden, unproved piece of territory to build a state. there very few people thought was at all realistic and in fact, at least half of those who came to israel in those years and thereafter left gave up as hopeless. but ben-gurion persisted. and the result today what one m

henry kissinger famously said negotiations in the middle east do not end in exhilaration.d in exhaustion. brinksmanship is par for the course. it's clear -- and the news coverage is wall-to-wall. saturation, prime time. it is clear that israel would like, in the negotiations, hostages frontloaded, as many as possible in the early part of the cease-fire. and, whether hamas wants to hold others back, i don't know. it is clear that they will -- there will be prisoners. the hostages will be released. the sequencing, according to news reports here, and what i am hearing from officials, not everything is finalized. and they are waiting for mohammed sinwar in the tunnels somewhere in gaza. the most part people in gaza are holding the actual hostages. whatever is being discussed in qatar actually has to be proved in gaza itself. we need to see. but i expect brinksmanship. things never go smoothly. there are always final sticking points. i do think it will happen. but i just think we have to be careful making predictions about the coming hours. your correspondent was right. it coul

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when you look at einstein and you look at henry kissinger, they were refugees to this country.missions at very low levels first term. he's talking about block refugee admissions this term. is that a mistake? >> well, i think we're going through a period of, frankly, reacting to an extraordinarily disastrous immigration policy, so you're going to have some twists and turns. in the long run, we do want to have an ability to allow legitimate refugees to come here. we also, and participate of the reason callista and i made this documentary for pbs, we believe strongly that illegal immigrants are a major contribution to america's success and to its exceptional nature and we want to make sure that as many americans favor legal immigration as oppose illegal immigration. it's very important to distinguish the two, and we want to strongly communicate that legal immigration in a variety of forms, refugees is one and another is various work permits, but we want people to be able to come to america if they do so legally. >> you said immigrants inhabit the very soul of what it is to be an a

is that make you miss henry kissinger? you know, the, you know, i'll just leave it at that. no, no, no. what i'm so what, what my, my point is, my point is, i'm a, and i'm obviously being provocative here. michael. but, you know, the, the, you know, the, be the, the going to try nixon going to china? things like that. this is what diplomats do. i mean there's, there's a lot of collateral damage, obviously, but that was thinking strategically about the national interest, even if we disagree with the outcomes. but the point is, is it, and i think it's already been mentioned here, is that now the secretary of state is just the cog in the works. and diplomacy has no role in american foreign policy. unfortunately, i don't think it's gonna change as all the time we have gentlemen want to take my guess and tests good. and here in moscow. and of course i want to thank our viewers for watching us here at r t c. you next time. remember, the, the russian states never is as tight as i'm one of the most sense community best most i'll send, send the progress be the one else calls question

upon leaving the pentagon this time she returned to csis where she was senior vice president, henry kissingerhair and chair of the international security program. february 9, 2021, she left to become the deputy secretary of defense. the second highest position in the department of defense. what a tumultuous and consequential four years it has been. today as she nears the end of her tenure, she has agreed to come give her final speech. we are honored to have her with us to speak about the threats we face as well as what the department has done to meet them. after her remarks she and i will continue the conversation with a discussion of the topic. join me in welcoming deputy secretary of defense kathleen hicks. sec. hicks: good morning. good evening to those in bologna and nanchang joining via livestream. thank you for professor mankin for hosting and dean steinberg for the invitation. it's always great to be here. when the school of advanced international studies was cofounded some 25 years ago, he sought to create what he later described as a center in washington of independent thought. suffi

some of the most important political and cultural figures of the era, including ralph bunche henry kissinger, luis munoz, marin edward murrow, julius nyerere, bertrand russell, adlai stevenson, paul tillich and john f kennedy both as senator and president. although she really despised jfk's father and had to be convinced to book the younger of the kennedys, some of her anti kennedy remarks were unfortunately incorporated into television for republican richard, for whom she also had little respect. eleanor roosevelt spoke authority, yet she had a kind, grandmotherly appearance and mode of delivery as she aged television commentators. guests often behaved deferentially to her personage, resisting the trivialization or sexualization that plagued most women at the time, although she had consistent offscreen detractors, very few either directly on tv. so the medium regularly provided an effective platform for her liberal voice. during the republican eisenhower years and beyond, because of her status as a larger than life figure, both loved and hated segments of the public. filmmakers largely avoi

in a bipartisan way with the senate republican leader and with other republicans gerald ford, henry kissingerwater, he passed the two thirds, which is impossible to conceive, it would not happen today. it is a different place. >> different place and time. greg, jimmy carter, the only u.s. president born in georgia. what will be his top lasting legacy there? >> i hope it is bipartisanship. we can dream about washington but here in georgia i love the pause at the state capital where a bipartisan group of lawmakers celebrated jimmy carter's legacy. sonny perdue is the first republican judge or governor in georgia and i asked him what his relationship jimmy carter was like, jimmy carter gave him advice over the years. he said what was most notable to him is so me people across party lines could come together and celebrate a great man. this is a former member of donald trump's administration, he was secretary of agriculture and donald trump's first term saying jimmy carter was a great man and georgia should come together to celebrate that. >> i will let you, richard, give the last word before we w

henry kissinger, cyrus vance in my advisor said let him come -- and my advisor said let him come. i contacted the president and pride mr. of iran. i told him -- prime minister of iran. i told them i was contee putting that in the shah come for treatment. i wanted there assurance that would protect americans. there were 8000 americans in iran, including 66 of the embassy staff. they sent me word they would guarantee nothing would happen to the americans if the shah come to new york provided he would not make political statements in america. he did give me that assurance. to the surprise of me, and i think to the surprise of the president and prime minister of iran, the militant took hostages. when the ayatollah, after three days, supported it, the capture and holding of the hostages, both the president and prime minister resigned in protest. that was just the beginning of a long ordeal where they held the hostages. i don't really believe i could have done anything differently. the main advice i got was to bomb iran and so forth. i was convinced then and still am convinced had i don

washington you are getting more pandas but to go back and give that story, when richard nixon, henry kissinger have this amazing groundbreaking reopening of china to the west in 1972 they are trying to open relations back up, they take pat nixon along, she is one of the few women on the trip because she is so good behind the scenes with diplomacy, she is like the secret sauce that helps president nixon make the deals. so she and the chinese premier at dinner one night and he had pandas on his cigarette 10 and she says, i love pandas, they are so cute and he says, i will give you some. she thinks he mean cigarettes but he meant a pair of pandas. so now there has been this exchange of pandas between our countries and it is a barometer of how relations with china are going and this is all thanks to pat nixon. peter: 1974, when did pat know the end was near? heath: i think until the bitter end pat was not ready to give up on her husband. but let's go back a little bit. 1972, june there is a break-in at the doc and that is upsetting to her, she is aware of it but they are jumping into campaign seas

to go back and give that sort richard nixon and henry kissinger have this amazing groundbreaking reopeningto the west in 1972 1972 theretrying to open the res back up they take mrs. nixon along. she is so good behind the scenes with diplomacy. she's like the secret sauce that helps president nixon make these deals. there's a pin with pandas on it and she says i love pandas they are so cute and says i will give you some. she thanks he means cigarettes but he means a pair of pandas. ever since then andga now this s been over 50 years ago there's been this exchange of pandas between our countries and it is a barometer of how our relations with china are going. this is all thanks to pat dixon. >> host: 1974, when did pat know the end was near? >> i think pat, until the bitter end was not ready to give up on her husband. however, let's go back a little bit 1972 in june there's a break in at the dnc. that is upsetting to her. she is aware of it but they are remembered jumping into campaign season. so it gets a bit lost in the weeds with that. she's very focused on that. you see here, we just saw

so what richard nixon and henry kissinger -- can be kissinger had this amazing ground breaking openinge to the west in 1972 they are trying to open the relations back up, they take mrs. nixon along. she is of thehe women on the trp because she's so good behind the scenes of diplomacy. she's like thewi secret sauce tt helped president nixon make decent deal. she and the chinese remarriage in one night and there's a pen with pandas on it she says i love pandas, this acute. i'll give you some. she thinks he means cigarettes by the means pandas, a pair of pandas. so ever since thenhe and now ths is been over 50 years ago there's been this exchange of pandas between our country's and it's a barometer of how our relations with china are going. and this is all thanks to pat nixon. >> host: heath hardage lee, 1974 come when did pat know the end was near? >> guest: i think pat until the better end -- bitter and was not ready to give up on her husband. however, so let's go back a little bit. 1972 in june there's a a brean at the dnc. that is upsetting to her. she's aware of it but they are remem

if you think about how we developed modern relations with china, henry kissinger's secret trip to beijing in 1971, he sat down with the foreign minister and he started a conversation not by lecturing the chinese and not by telling them what the united states wanted in asia or wanted from china, but rather asking questions. what is china? what do you think of china's role in the world? what are you trying to accomplish? what is your national sense of china's identity? it was a conversation that then led to a much more empathetic, ongoing process of dialogue that led to ultimately realization of relations, again, we think of jimmy carter because that is when normalization actually occurred. i think now because we are in this thinking that this is a cold war, we are not having that kind of dialogue. we are lecturing. it is a natural reaction. instead we should be having these conversations based on the notion of strategic empathy where we are doing a lot more listening to each other and trying to find the areas of common ground -- which there are numerous. climate is the first one. there's a

if you think about how we develop modern relations within china, henry kissinger's secret trip to beijing he sat down with the ford minister and started a conversation not by lecturing the chinese and not by telling them what the united states wanted in asia or wanteded from china but rather asking questions. what is china? what you think of china's role in the world what is that you are trying to accomplish? what is your sense of china's identity? it was a conversation that led to much more empathetic ongoing process of dialogue that led to ultimately normalization of relations with speaking of jimmy jimmycarter that's when normalin actually occurred. i think it now because we're in this thinking is a cold war we are not having that kind of dialogue. we are lecturing. thatare lecturing it is strategic empathy a lot more inch listening to each other. we there are rumors claimant is the first one. a lot of good cooperation going on between the u.s. and climb aa like thenot governmental levels but non- governmental levels but academic and research levels is very, very good work. we need to

and so nixon, ford and then carter all thought for national security reasons, egged on by henry kissingernd others, the u.s. had to arrange this transfer. it was a so carter accepted that logic. i think anybody in the national security realm would say, this is one of the great achievements of carter's time and of american diplomacy. >> if you were to have written his obituary for the new york times or the washington post, what would be the first couple of lines? what's the headline about jimmy carter that, you know, one should one should tell people who may know very little about him. >> um, like many of us, i had the odd circumstance of writing a pre obit about two years ago when jimmy carter went into hospice and carter had the sort of mordant pleasure of seeing himself appreciated while he could still read these things. and what i wrote then in the atlantic is something i would stand by, which was he was a an unlucky president and a lucky man that luck broke against him in many ways during his time in office. you know, from the iranian hostage situation to the rescue mission to to many

he had terminal cancer and henry kissinger. and speaking of brzezinski and my secretary of state cy vance and a whole phalanx of people wanted me to let the shah come in. i was the last holdout and i finally decided that i would not him come in unless i got approval from the president and they of prime minister of iran. one was named goosby and the other one in the same gorbachev that i believe yazdi and gorbachev. yes. and anyway, they they assured me the shah could come in to york for treatment and they would protect our people. and in iran there were. but we had over 5000 americans still working iran in addition to the embassy personnel and and the only proviso was that the shah had to agree ahead of time that he would not make any political statement while he was in new york. and he agreed to that. so that was the circumstances under which i let the shah come and then the student militants, our embassy and khomeini held off for about three days. and then he backed up the students and the president and minister resigned in p

memos, you can see in the margins, carter scribbles, oh, use force like mayaguez, a reference to henry kissingerand president ford's disastrous use of force in where that led to unnecessary deaths of of hostages that had been taken aboard a ship and, you know, carter repeated what was astonishing to me was that carter repeatedly turned down and reject biggs advice, particularly during the first three years. he just, you know, he had a different attitude about the cold war and about the third world in particular. he didn't think that the soviets were behind every little revolution in the third world. and he took brzezinski with a large grain of salt, and he more often sided with the world view of cy vance and but the the mystery is why did he put up with zbig if he disagreed with them so often? and you know, he i asked him this in one of my interviews and he said, oh, you know, zbig entertained me. he was witty. he had 100 ideas every day. and, you know, i'd have to reject 98 of them. but he would be an entertaining conversationalist on an airplane, a long airplane ride. they had numerous argumen

henry kissinger, albert, roberta wolf, statler and and above all, herman kahn and herman cain in the early to mid 1960s developed what he called the escalatory ladder. and in a in a nutshell, what said was the question was how does nuclear war occur? and once you've answered that, you can say, well, what can we do to prevent it? because that was really the goal was to prevent a nuclear war. and in fact, he said, well, no one wakes up on a sunny day and says, hey, nice day to start a war. i think i'll fire some nuclear missiles. that's not possible, but that's the least likely way that the nuclear war would begin. the way it begins is described. it is one side. you have two adversaries, could be more than two. it could be more complex. but one side takes a does a provocative act, the other side responds maybe slightly more intense. the first side, you know, raises the ante. you're in a poker game where you see each bet and raise the ante. and before long, really quite almost from the beginning, the two sides are climbing a ladder towards nuclear war. and so and can actually had 44 ste

management team in letting the shah come to new york for treatment of his terminal cancer and henry kissinger and cyrus vance and all my advisors were saying let him come. it's a humanitarian thing to do so i contacted the president and prime minister of iran and told them i was contemplating letting the shah come to new york for treatment and i wanted assurance from them that they would protect americans over there, there were 8000 americans in iran working in different positions including members of the embassy staff. they sent me word they would guarantee nothing would happen to americans if the shah came to new york. a political statement when he was in america and the shah did give me that assurance and then to the surprise of me and i think to the surprise of the president and prime minister of iran, the militants took hostages and when the ayatollah after three days supported the capture and holding of the hostages, then the president and prime minister resigned in protest but that was just the beginning of a long ordeal. so i don't really believe i would've done anything different, th