thinkers including our panelists, bill kristol and bill shamrock as well as david abshire, senator howard bakerese fellows they should note are no longer hudson institute fellows. others are no longer conservative. others i think this is arguable or perhaps even less likely they are no longer even alive today. we can leave that to be for. the book was really critically acclaimed volume, a home for two press classic now a less completely sold out, which examines how the threat the government opposed to the american dream may be reversed. to reach evolution of power to the state, locality and civil society and through renewed culture voluntarism and entrepreneurship. as worthy as the ideas were at the time for a variety of commentated reasons, they do not fully take root. fifteen years later at the 112 congress prepares to take office komar cattolica teams of the book to examine why the vision that derailed and why it is even more urgent today. on that note, i had the distinct honor of introducing senator alexander. [applause] >> thing is, can come up for the good introduction. he mentioned my sm

one of my closest working allys in the senate was howard baker who was the minority leader of the republicansin the house it was bob michel who was a minority leader of the... in the house. so they cooperated with me thoroughly. that's completely absent now where the republicans have been in my opinion completely responsible for the first 18 or so months of the obama administration and quite often he can't get a single vote in the house or senate for a major goal. i had good support. that's changed. >> suarez: dominating these pages are the road to camp david. >> yes. >> suarez: some evenings when you're jotting these notes down, you're pretty steamed. >> i know. when i became president within a week i was already working on a comprehensive piece in the middle east because for the last 30 years i would say the number one foreign policy prayer that i've had and commitment that i've had is to bring peace to israel. and israel's neighbors. there had been four wars in the previous 25 years against israel, all led by egypt, the only arab country with enough help to really challenge israel. i wante

deliberative body in which no sir. 15 years ago, i was impressed with the essays from bill kristol and howard bakernd francis fukuyama and others. their advice resonates as well today as it did then. reading their advice also reminds me of how little of that device anyone took. republicans who were elected in 1994 on the cry of "no more unfunded federal mandates soon" replaced liberal government rules. the size of the federal budget has grown 140% and the federal debt is up from $5 trillion to the $14 trillion. in the last two years, the progressive revolution symphony has been playing in washington again. with government bailouts and, as one blogger has pointed out, the appointment of more new czars and czarinas then even the romanov's could have imagined. this form is the result of the suggestion. after what i have to say, we will hear from a distinguished panel that includes three contributors from the 1995 volume. our hope is the same today as it was 15 years ago, to provide an intellectual context for the latest anti-washington surge, with the additional hope that officials will listen to it a

, jim baker, jim schlesinger, henry kissinger, colin powell, condoleezza rice, stephen hadley, howard baker, lawrence eagleburger and frank lucy. many of these officials serve at a time when states were related to russian nuclear arms were even higher than they are today. during the cold war, uncertainty over russia's intentions and weapons advances, this cost us 10s if not hundreds of billions of dollars. and industry developed devoted to parching soviet military capabilities. this is one of the biggest if not the biggest expense of our intelligence budget each year. the fact that we could not judge soviet military capabilities lead us to elevate our spending on weaponry. called of a sense of caution. these times predominated by contradictory risk assessments and rumors about dangerous new soviet weapons systems. we were constantly worried about missile gaps destabilizing arms deployment or soviet technology--all of this came at tremendous cost to the american taxpayer. and the psyche of the nation which lived under the threat of mutual assured destruction. i firmly believe our opposition

was given the dubious honor of being called to testify by a young senator from tennessee named howard baker, and he assigned me to his staffer who grilled me for four -- for three hours under oath, a fellow by the name of fred thompson. great kinds of memories there. didn't realize i would come back to the senate myself and, as a political junkie, what could be better? i was involved in the debate. i had access to all of the activity, and they even gave me a vote. it was a great time, a great opportunity, and i have enjoyed it immensely. and say farewell to it with kind of mixed feelings. what have i learned out of all of this, both that past history and my own history in the sena senate? i won't bore you with all of the things that i have learned but i have picked out several that i want to highlight here today. the first thing that i have learned is this is, indeed, an extraordinary place filled with extraordinary people, and the caricature that we get from the press and the movies and other places, that this is filled with people who have self-serving agendas and very low standard of eth

one of my closest working allies in the senate was howard baker, who was a minority leader of the republicans, and in the house it was bob michael, the minority leader in the house. and so they cooperated with me fairly, and i couldn't have had such a good batting average in conquer since lyndon johnson since the second world war. i couldn't have had that good of batting average without the full support of the republican side, and that's completely absent now where the republicans have been, in my opinion, completely irresponsible the first 18 months or so of obama's the administration and when he can't get a single vote in the house or the senate for a major goal. so that's changed. and the reason for that is still enormous injection of money into the political campaigns. and now, of course, with a bump the ruling of the supreme court last january -- [laughter] [applause] -- we can have unlimited injection of money hundreds of millions of dollars into the campaign by corporations, and they don't even have to be identified. as a matter of fact, when i ran for president in 76 and free election

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a treaty supported by none other than george schultz, henry kissinger, howard -- is it howard baker -- all very well-respected republicans. these republicans turned their back on those republicans because they're fighting for the top.wit -- .1% of 1%. we have no inspectors on the ground in russia. we need to inspect their nuclear program. we all know -- i remember asking all of our national security people, what's their biggest fear? republicans, democrats, all of them? you know what they said? a terrorist getting a hold of a nuclear weapon. we've got to do inspections and make sure that that nuclear arsenal is safe from terrorists. oh, no, we can't do that. because the people who earn over $1 million need more tax help. thank you. that's the answer from the other side. we're now ready to give $250 back to social security recipients who didn't get a cost-of-living adjustment. as far as i know, that's being stopped. nothing's happening here. we want to help our firefighters negotiate so they can get the benefits they deserve, these heroes. oh, no, that's being held up. i could tell you

howard baker, former senator, republican from tennessee. he said just a few days ago, "a world without a binding u.s. nuclear u.s.-russian treaty is less predictable than the one we live in today. trust but verify he says. ratify this treaty. george schultz, a constituent of mine, secretary of state for president reagan, he wrote with sam nunn, democrat, former senator from georgia who we all respected on these issues -- quote -- "noting the full support of the secretary of state, the secretary of defense, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and following our own review of the treaty, we urge the senate to give its advice and consent to ratification of new start as early as is feasible." and i just hope we don't have a lot of delaying -- more delaying tactics around here. because it's not necessary. and i -- i heard colleagues say, what's the rush? what's the rush? what's the rush? we had seven months and -- and senators kerry and lugar bent over backwards, did everything possible to accommodate senators like senator kyl who wanted ce

was the most admired member of the united states senate, and according to press reports, senator howard baker of tennessee was the most admired senator, both by republicans and by democrats. if such a survey were to be taken today, judd gregg would certainly be at the top of that list for most of us. there is not a better member of the united states senate. much has been said about him so i'll say three things quickly because there are other senators who wish to speak. first, judd gregg is of new hampshire, not from new hampshire. we say well, sometimes senator so and so is from tennessee or from new york or from south dakota or from maine, but a senator whose roots are really where roots are supposed to be is of his state. judd gregg sounds like new hampshire, he acts like he's from new hampshire, he is from new hampshire, he votes like he's from new hampshire. the old man of the mountain, which is a rock that was up in new hampshire, those of us who have been there a lot, would drive by and see it, fell down a few years ago. i thought, well, maybe the best way to replace it is just put judd