he never got the invitation although kissinger said here is my card you call my secretary. i want to know where you are and how to get in touch with you. talking to kissinger's bright young men whose said it was such a sensitive issue to recognize the people's republic we could talk to any right wing conservative crackpot historian but not to the man who held the talks with the communist in 27 years before nixon and now have the famous handshake. as a result of the wording of provisions in this low diplomatic dance we did to recognize them officially. jon service was officially recognized as a china expert and a reputation restored and given many honorary degrees and here he is at one such gathering is his wife caroline and next year hurt is the actress and if you want to know how that comes about, i am afraid you really should read "honorable survivor" and you will get the full story. and i would just like to end with a couple of other things. i was hear a couple years ago and they're selling the past. whenever the chinese communist want to emphasize better relations with

the one thing you might consider that henry kissinger said it is lonely at the top of there is only one superpower there will be a natural balance. maybe they graph will be tilted a little bit but what we see during some periods of time with the united states is plainly violating international law that would have been the saturation with the white house torture memos the extraordinary rendition policy and the waterboarding of some individuals up there 175 times or more. at that point* our reputation took such a hit the diplomacy was suffering greatly in the congress recognized this and during the campaign of the last presidency the candidates recognize this also legal advisers some have to recognize there is a reputation that the united states benefits. we're at our strongest diplomatically when we leave by moral example and when we don't, we we can all of that economic and military might and it cost the united states to much unilaterally to do all the things it wants to do if we cannot get the cooperation of other countries have seen as a lawbreaker. and is a reputation concerned as we

and, kissinger, it may have been kissinger's words and i think they played it up, deliberately because their agenda, i mean, the conservative movement a strong base of its agenda is to erase the '60s and attack the '60s movements and revive america to what it was in the 1950s, and, to revive, you know, one thing the '60s movement did was create a mindset of questioning authority and challenging u.s. -- at least questioning u.s. interventions abroad. and that was part of it. so, yeah, i think very much, nixon, and his associates wanted to go after the counterculture and they played up the addiction crisis in the military, to show the pernicious effect of the counterculture, and used that kind of rhetoric, and that fueled this agenda, of which the war on drugs was essentially turning the country back to traditional values, and implementing the war on drugs as a means of counteracting everything the youth movements in the '60s represented. so, excellent question there. >> two hands, you first and then... go ahead. >> you think there is a higher percentage of americans today or lower perce

there is this famous line or a chew story of i think it was kissinger. kissinger says if you believe that and what do you think about the french revolution and joe en-lai says it is too soon to tell. i think there is a lot of truth to that with respect to iraq. ilog people talk about the huge disaster to iraq and i would ask you to come back in jeff feltman 10 years and see if we can agree it is a disaster orix success. one of the things president was thought about iraq was, that you have to have a successful and ultimately rich arab democracy in the heart of the middle east, a shia democracy would have a huge impact in in the airball band-aid iran. not only do i think that is not yet been proven wrong, compact in 10 and 10 years and it will have a proven right. >> i think that is a very interesting case. i mean, keep in mind that this book and my in my ideas are coming still at the heat of the moment. one of my, one of my main theses is that as hillel was discussing before why i think it is pretty was to look at us, meaning americans, the united states

[applause] and former secretary of state, jimmy baker and henry kissinger.ause] iso appreciate their willingness to stand up for someone they knew. i want to thank my campaign chairman, jim francis, who is here tonight. our co-chairs. my finance chairman. and all the great campaign staff that worked so hard on my behalf. i will always appreciate your courageous support and tireless efforts. i want to single out the farm bureau. i tell you -- if you are ever in the trenches -- [applause] we, in texas, know how important agriculture is in our state. i have worked with the farm bureau throughout my career in the senate and in this campaign and there are no more wonderful, loyal, down-to-earth, good people who will stand on principle no matter the consequences and i love you guys, thank you. [applause] it has been a long road and we have come together to make sure that texas remains what it is today, the greatest state in america. [applause] i will work with governor perry and our fellow republicans to keep texas strong and prosperous for the future. we all must

. >> rose: henry kissinger, who you know well, has said to me on conversations in this program, otherwiseconcerned that the united states build alliances within air,ia so that it is understood that we believe we have a role to play in the region. >> absolutely. >> rose: we intend to play that role. coming out of the global expectations of the united states. >> and i think you see us-- we certainly have some very strong long-term alliances with japan, with south korea, with australia. but we're also trying to really deepen and broaden our partnerships in southeast asia, for example. and in south asia, india and pakistan. and so, you know, i think we are working on that. we're also at the same time having an increasingly rich and candid dialogue with china about how do we see our interests in the region? how do they see their interests? >> rose: there is the impression of more conflict between china and the united states. >> i guess there are-- there are always going to be issues where we disgreat, elements of taiwan policy, for example. how we treat the dalai lama. human rights, those kind

statesmen like george schultz, henry kissinger, bill perry have been outspoken in their support of moreon. earlier this week i met with my friends john kerry and dick luger to discuss this treaty. throughout the morning my administration will be consulting senators -- my administration will be consulting senators from both parties as we prepare for what i hope will be a strong bipartisan support to ratify the treaty. with that i'm going to leave you in the able hands of my secretary of state hillary clinton as well as secretary of defense gates and joint chief of staff chairman mike mullen. so i want to thank all of you for your attention. hillary. >> well, thank you all very much. this is a good day for america and our security. and as president obama just reiterated, it is one of the highest priorities of the obama administration to pursue an agenda to reduce the threat posed by the deadliest weapons the world has ever known. president obama set that forth in his speech at prague last year. and today he and president medvedev reached an agreement to make significant and verifiable red

yet as henry kissinger would call what is the odious mo of truth. >> guest: is stoneking and people are paranoid and i don't go for it and i usually college. there is a pretty famous talk-show host is also a tv host who spoke at cpac recently and i said i just thought it was a bad set of remarks. i try to be an honest broker here but i want to distinguish between people who may increase the temperature and people who commit acts of violence and they are not the same people so responsibility is responsibility to read but this happens on all sides, to back and we need to remember that there is a lot of stoking up on the left as well as the right. i don't think it helps much to read it as a free country and will go on. it makes the business of faltering and getting at the truce harder but again i think overall the decentralization of this journalistic authority is a good thing and i think it is made for a much more even playing field. >> host: even the meaning that you think the media in the 60's and 70's and 80's was generally left leaning and now you don't think that is a problem? >> gue

he published such books as kristopher hitchens the trial of henry kissinger, matt taibbi spanking the donahey, my favorite title of collins is the first book after he went corporate and became an editor at scribner we all felt that colin and his first book there was fidel castro's autobiography. [laughter] now he is the co-founder of a new publishing house called or books started with another veteran of the publishing, john oakes. they've done one book so far, and was a best seller. it's called quote code going rouge, a spoof on sarah palin's book. welcome to both of you. let me start buy simply asking you to describe your new companies and new efforts. i will start with you, richard. >> okay. effectively the company is an effort to build a model that reflects the writing, reading, relationship as icy it as opposed to as it has been served up until now. and the key realization i have about the way in which it is changed is that there was once a time called few writers many readers and there's now a time called many writers many readers and in the time of many writers many features, yo

give acceptance speech for the nobel peace prize made him sound like henry kissinger. it was solid for its practicality. he has been pragmatic. this does raise the point as tom mentioned that he has a disconnect, a challenge, trying to link the global zero mission meaningfully to near-term policy. we have heard many cautionary notes about how difficult it is to do that. i would throw out one specific, possible suggestion. it is sold monday that it might underscore the dilemma. it builds on the excess warheads point that steve talked about. if you believe and at least the hope of global 0, or the idea to take a couple of steps and see where we are -- what might the next couple of steps be? maybe a u.s./russian agreement that would cap their tactical warheads. the russians may not be in the mood to agree on common ceiling. maybe cawe can at least cap them. maybe in the spirit of george'w. s more informal control. then have monitoring to give each other into the habit of being intrusive that way. that may be the kind of step that allows us to be pragmatic on all kinds of

as i wrote about him was thinking about -- i written to henry kissinger at jail about a year ago and as we were talking about the end of the vietnam war and i said which do you think is more difficult as a strategic abu? vietnam or iraq? he said no doubt in my mind, iraq. an alternate over to exum. >> all right. first off, it's a real honor to be here on this podium with two journalists who have written quite per start diddley on the iraq war. i feel kind of out of place. i spent a grand total of four months of their life in iraq. mainly trying to lose a war which i'll talk a bit leader. project has given you this wide right to comment on what i've heard and also to reorient the conversation may be pointing towards the next panel when we think about afghanistan pierced the meat of my presentation is going to be thinking about the changes that took ways in the u.s. government and the u.s. military that was caused by a bracket where that leads us going forward. as i look at my wardrobe this morning if i do i need to put on a tight? who are you kidding? tom ricks hasn't worn a tie since

but he's not henry kissinger or brzezinski when it comes to become secretary of state and he agrees,gn. that's typical routine politics at the highest level and you should ask them whether or not they think that's appropriate or not. >> so does the fact that something is common in politics make it okay that the fact that we live in an incredibly corrupt state? >> yeah. >> does that make -- if you actually change your vote on a piece of legislation or on an executive enactment in return for campaign funds does that make it any more ethical or legal? >> you're asking me the law is what the law is. the law is legal. that makes it legal. does it from a moral standpoint what the right point is. if you believe in your heart in raising campaign funds to fight for people and get things done for people and if i wasn't good at it every child wouldn't get healthcare and kids with cancer wouldn't be ableb4 to see a docr but i was in a position to get that done. >> so you're saying the ends justify the means? >> no. as long as you follow the law -- >> that's against the law. if you're going to sa

statement like henry kissinger have been outspoken in their support of more assertive action. earlier this week, i met with john kerry and dick lugar to discuss this treaty. threat the morning, my administration will be consulting senators from both parties as we prepare for what i hope will be a strong bipartisan support to rectify the new treaty. . . . >> thank you very much. has president obama reiterated, that is one of the highest per these of the obama administration to pursue an agenda to reduce the threats posed by the deadliest weapons the world has ever known. president obama said the fourth in his speech in prague last year and today he and president medvedev reached an agreement to make significant and verifiable reductions in our nuclear arsenal. long after the end of the cold war, the u.s. and russia still possess more than 90% of the world's nuclear weapons. we do not need such a large arsenals to protect our nation and our allies against the two greatest dangers we face today. nuclear proliferation and terrorism. this treaty represents a significant step forwar

former secretary of state george schultz, former senator sam nunn, former secretary of state henry kissinger, are some of the people that the president has spoken fairly regularly to and shares the same goal as he does, eliminating nuclear weapons from our planet and the risk of that, which would be a great focus of the president's nuclear security summit in mid-april in securing quickly loose nuclear material throughout the world to prevent that material from falling into the hands of terrorists. >> [inaudible question] >> i think we're very close. >> the just ties statements depend on the series of future actions such as the cadillac tax and even the c.b.o. has said congress rarely falls through on fiscal restraint promises. does the president plan to vito any of those things that would reduce cost savings? >> broader point. it's interesting the degree to which people either lean on or lean away from c.b.o. based on whether they believe c.b.o. has proved or not proved their point. setting that aside, the president is confident in what he signed will come to fruition and will take actions t

i ran into henry kissinger at yale and we were talking about the end of the vietnam war.said which do you think is more dull as a strategic problem, vietnam or -- is more difficult as a strategic problem, vietnam or iraq? he said no question at all, iraq. >> well, first off, it is a real honor to be here on this podium with two journalists that have written quite perceptively or not the iraq -- on the iraq war. i feel out of place. i spent four months in iraq mainly trying to lose the war. but pat trick -- patrick has given me a chance to think about the changes that took place that took place within the u.s. government and specifically the u.s. military that were caused by iraq and where that leaves us going forward. as i looked at my wardrobe this morning, i thought, do i really need to wear a tie? i thought, who are you kidding? tom ricks hasn't warn a tie since 1973, but i think there's a lesson here -- just because it hasn't happened before doesn't mean it isn't going to happen. i said i served in iraq. again, i was really trying to lose the war. all that indiscrimin

they key example of the consensus and investing in our nation -- by senator nunn, secretary shultz, kissinger and very entitled a world free from nuclear weapons. i'm looking forward to working with congress over the next few months to get the budget and program passed in working with each of you on moving and making the president nuclear security mission a reality. i welcome comments and questions. thank you. [applause] >> please raise your hands. again, we have an active left side of the room. >> todd jacobson with nuclear weapons and monitor. as he administers move to modernize the complex, nnsa will have to redo the contract to manage the production sites, something i know you're working on right now. how important is it for nnsa to have competition for these contracts? how you going about ensuring what's going to happen? >> first, i would like to refer it as a national security enterprise versus nuclear weapons complex. with the weapons programs, serious, you know, firmly embedded in that, so you will hear me refer to it a few times. recognizing i may have to change the name of your comp

as i wrote it though i was thinking about something henry kissinger ivory and it to him at the jail about a year ago and we were talking about the end of the vietnam war and i said which do you think is more difficult as a strategic problem, vietnam or iraq and he said no question in my mind, iraq. now i will turn it over. >> first of its donner to be here on the podium with two journalists who've written perceptively of the iraq war. i feel kind of out of place. i spent a grand total of four months of my life in iraq. ably trying to lose the war which i will talk about a little bit later but patrick is giving me this white for it to both, and what i just heard and also try to reorient the conversation may be pointing towards the next panel think about afghanistan so the meat of my presentation will be thinking about the changes that took place within the u.s. government and specifically the u.s. military caused by iraq and where that leads us going forward. as i looked this morning at my wardrobe i thought 20 to put on a tie and i said who are you kidding tom hasn't worn a tie since 1973

statesmanlike george shultz, henry kissinger, and bill perry have been outspoken in their support ofore assertive action. earlier this week i met with my friends john kerry and dick lugar to discuss this. throughout the morning, my administration will be consulting senators. my administration will be consulting senators from both parties to prepare for what i hope will be a strong bipartisan support to ratify the new treaty. with that, i am going to leave you in the able and my secretary of state, hillary clinton, as well as secretary of defense gates and joint chiefs of staff, chairman mike mullen. i want to thank all of you for your attention. >> is iran part of the conversation, sir? >> well, thank you all very much. this is a good day for america and our security. and as president obama just reiterated, it is one of the highest priorities of the obama administration to pursue an agenda to reduce the threats of -- posed by the deadliest weapons the world has ever known. president obama said that fourth in his speech at a prague last year, and today, he and president medvedev reach