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

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 had later. even before kennedy's inauguration, cruzkhef made nice. he said he wanted good relations. he didn't really like eisenhower. he didn't say that to keb did but that was true. he said he wanted good relations and he hoped that they would be able to get together and work things out. kennedy wrote back and said, yes. i want good relations, also. and he proposed a meeting. kruzkhef state on the invitation and soviet intelligence was pretty good in those days and he knew the merps were going to to attack cuba. he alerted castro and told him to prepare for the attack which castro did as we know. and he also then decide to wait until he could see what the results were of the cuban exercise. we all know what happened at the bay of pigs. i don't need to describe it here but what's interesting is krukhef's reaction which was documented by his son who was written a very warm and loving, but also pretty detailed biography of his father. he could not

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

kissinger.irman of kissinger associates and international consulting firm and among the awards dr. kissinger has received where the nobel peace prize in 1973 and the presidential medal of freedom which was the nation's highest civilian award in 1977. i also then would like to introduce steve hadley in order on the dais here. state completed four years as the national security adviser in january of 2009. of course he was a national security visor to president george w. bush and in that capacity was the principle white house foreign-policy visor to president bush director of the national security council staff and ran the inter-agency security policy development execution process. from january 2001 to january 2005 he was the assistant to the president deputy national security adviser, serving under the national security visor condoleezza rice. and it in his consulting practice today steve hadley represents the u.s. corporate -- doing business overseas. jim steinberg is the dean dean of the maxwell

but it is interesting that you did take a line seen as different from kissinger and detente is is some way a precursor to the reagan administration later took in raising questions about the viability of the system. you promoted the final accord focused on human rights, a great deal and of course the leader history of the decline and collapse of the soviet union indicates that the was a very significant factor as many groups in the soviet it was the beginning of the end. you know, i am just curious whether at this date three decades later you feel that you would have indicated in your views during those early discussions when the cold war was still going on. >> guest: at the risk of sounding soft promoting i have to say yes i do feel that way. i don't think that in any way i deplore the fact that reagan brought more of my program then the motions regarding to taunt. nixon basically had the status quo. you keep what you have, we won't meddle in yours. how do i view it as equally horrible, and i was always convinced that the soviet union had to be transformed encouraged to disintegrate, a

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

and we have already accepted under our predecessors nixon and kissinger the notion of the one china. so this will work out. but let's not try to accelerate it to the point that it backfires. but in the long run, why not? and then later on when i visited china as a private citizen from he used the location of my visit quite deliberately to have himself and be photographed together talking, and he issued a statement which accompanied that photograph to the effect that china henceforth will propagate the notion of one china to the systems and use that as a basis for resolving its relationship with hongkong. and that includes an effect a great deal of autonomy from hong kong but the presence of the chinese army in hong kong to be licensed and started articulating the point of view which i shared with the chinese and other locations that ought to evolves into one of china, several systems, in other words, china and hong kong, one kind of arrangement, and then another kind of arrangement to get china and taiwan another kind of arrangement specifically in that case excusing, excluding the d

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

i think kissinger certainly holds the record for the most effective national security -- >> rose: because he understood both? >> because he understood strategy and because he understood strategy is -- >> rose: and culture? >> less so. but stregy, particularly strategy is the relationship of everything to everything ee, and that really is hard to do, and you really can't be bogged down in some specialty and expect to do that, so that is, i ink, where our educational system is failing us today, because we don't tin generalists. we are training specialists. >> can we go on line and see your course? >> no. it i not on line. i'm sorry to say. i had a student who came and told me last year that i was superfluous that the whole thing is on line. very tactful. >> rose: the book is called george f kennan, an american life. thank you. thank you for joining us. see you next time. captioning sponsored by rose communications captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

those were the orders handed down by kissinger from his boss and a brief period of just a couple years that we now know reached the level of all allied bombing in the pacific region during world war ii including the two atom bombs on the poor peasant society. lot of consequences to that. very ugly once but it finally more or less ended but it didn't. the facts of the chemical warfare continued and will continue. this very quickly turned into a crop description -- destruction, a major war crimes in he can tell you more than i can but just to add one more word, there are serious consequences to not paying attention to what we have done in the past. that if we are incapable of facing up to our own history we are in trouble morally with serious problems but it is also quite practical if you do not face up to you will continue to do it and that is happening. people our dying right now from america and chemical warfare one of the things done over the years is the number of visits to southern colombia to the isolated and endangered villages sometimes it is too dangerous to go to the countrysi

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

and we have already accepted our predecessors under kissinger the nose end of one china so this will work out but let's not try to accelerate this to the point that it backfires. in the long run, then later on when i visited china as a private citizen deng xiaoping use the occasion might visit deliberately to have themselves and me together talking and he issued a statement which accompanied that photograph, the fact that china has fourth would propagate the notion of one china, two systems and use that as a basis for resolving his relationship with hong kong and that includes in effect -- but the presence of the chinese army in hong kong. i have since then started articulating, which i've shared with the chinese on other occasions, that ought to evolve into one china, several systems. in other words china and hong kong one kind of arrangement, china and macau another kind of arrangement, china and taiwan another kind of arrangement specifically in that case, excluding the deployment of the chinese people's army in taiwan. >> host: have they been receptive to this? >> guest: receptio

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

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

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 it's also quite practical. because if you don't face up to it, you continue doing it. and, in fact, that's happening. people are dying right now from american chemical warf

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

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. ..

there's a slice of history here under this great sky, and then you see remanents of kissinger and nixon's america in southeast asia. they brought the ravens, the bombing guys, brought them here saying here's what you did. they are grown men just taking their orders, but they were in tears seeing how they ruined this beautiful part of the country. this is a one-day drive for me. it was -- i was determined to see it. i drove through the mountains for 16 hours to get there, but it was wort every moment of it. this is cambodia, and all of you know what pull pot did to the good people of cambodia. ten miles out is the chang killing fields, the most famous of the killing fields, and certainly there's many in cambodia, but this is the most well known one, and the front is a buddhist structure, and there's thousands of skulls, and it just says pray for the skulls, but please don't touch them. they suffered enough. beyond that you pay a couple bucks and walk into what looks like a small golf course and they are shallow graves where they excavated ten bodies from this. you were taken as a prisoner,

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[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

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