it's called kissinger on kissinger. it's available for purchase in our museum store and ambassador lord will sign copies for you. in 1971. 1974, that was air force one following the resignation and the chief editorial assistant on president nixon's best selling memoir. he has interviewed president nixon n for 38 hour which is are all available in digital format at the nixon presidential library. we'll see some of the videos in this presentation tonight. knowing that am babassador lord will be speaking tonight. he asked for us to note that winston lord is an indispensable partner and a good friend. it's my pleasure to introduce dr. frank gannon and ambassador winston lord. [ applause ] [ applause ] >> thaupg for coming. i found one of several references to you in the various kissinger memoirs. became one of my best collaborators. he was familiar with my views. he had a global, not original perspective. praise from caesar is praise from me. you went onto very distinguished career which could be the subject of another talk

kissinger as dr. kissinger was to president nixon. he joined the staff in 1969 as special assistant working and traveling the world on on every major diplomatic initiative of the administration in the midst of the vietnam war and greater cold war. he was with dr. kissinger with negotiators in paris culminating in the paris peace accords of 1973. he was with president nixon in moscow during his first president altrip there in may 1971. and he was there for kissinger shuttles between the arabs and israelis after the 1973 yom kippur war. he was a key actor in president nixon's historic trip to china in 1972 known popularly as the week that changed the world. from 2015 to 2016, he conducted several hours of oral history with dr. kissinger on behalf of the nixon foundation. and the collection of interviews kov ear variety of subject matter, china, russia, the middle east, vietnam, leadership strategy and statesmanship and can now be found in this highly readable book with commentary. it's called kissinger on kissinger. reflections on diplo

henry kissinger. i want to say first how important henry kissinger was to john mccain. really a great source of counsel advise on foreign policy and a loyal friend in every way. i was privileged on a couple of occasions to be together with henry kissinger and john mccain one memorable trip overnight across the atlantic. in which we spoke on many topics and there was a way in which john and i were enthralled by hearing henry stories of the remarkable privileges he had to be involved in the making of american foreign policy. becoming a member of the harvard faculty and then becoming involved in politics national security advisor and secretary of state under president nixon and president florida. not just the titles. a remarkable series of accomplishments that in my opinion make him the most successful, eminent diplomat statesman of our age. i'm not just praising a friend but think about it. he paved the way for the detente with the soviet union. he opened discussions with china in 1971 and that led with his leadership to the summit between president nixon and chairman mao

not henry kissinger. so at the center of the story is the figure of nixon himself the 37th president who i and many other historians, biographers find endlessly fascinating. one of the reasons i wrote this book as i had a conversation with the man who's written one of the classical books about watergate in which he goes into every twist and turn most of which don't mean much to modern day readers. from the "washington post" and i was surprised when he said to me that in 20 years, this was about ten years ago before his death, nobody will pay much attention to all the other people in the watergate saga. they will pay attention to richard nixon. richard nixon will endure forever. i structured this book from hubris in january of 1973 when he is about to be re- inaugurated through crisis, catastrophe and in the end up setting the stage for the downfall of the president. but as you see there is an american twist at the end. that is different from a shakespearean tragedy for one important reason you'll have to

then people like henry kissinger who comes across in these tapes as the arch flatterer and sycophants he tells nixon you saved this country, mr. president. the history books will show that no one will know what watergate means. excuse my bad german accent. but there is a rivalry between nixon and kissinger because one of the reasons nixon wanted to record the conversation is to show he was the architect of all of these foreign policy moves, not henry kissinger. so, at the center of this story is the figure of nixon himself, the 37th president who i and many other history and biographers find endlessly fascinating. i had a conversation with a man named stanley cutler who's written one of the classical books about watergate in which he goes into every twist and turn in the scandal, most of which don't mean very much to modern-day readers or listeners. but i called stanley up as a reporter for the "washington post" and i was surprised when he said to me that in 20 years nobody will know or pay much attention to all the other people in the watergate saga but they will pay attention to ric

he's the author of the book "kissinger on kissinger, reflections on diplomacy, grand strategy and leadershipscribes president nixon's relationship with his secretary of state henry kissinger, and how it was instrumental in developing foreign policy strategies. the richard nixon foundation hosted this event in 2019. >> good evening. welcome to the richard nixon presidential library. before we introduce our distinguished speaker, i wanted to mention a couple of special guests. we have our speaker's daughter lease, lisa lore and her husband, jack wild. [ applause ]

secretary kissinger answered, quote, i have no idea the number of americans that remain behind. the united states left hundreds of thousands of people behind in vietnam who wanted to leave and come to this country. today the president suggested that the number of people who might want to leave afghanistan now could number in the millions. >> millions of afghani citizens who are not taliban, who did not actively cooperate with us as sivs, who, if given a chance, may be on board a plane tomorrow. >> leading off our discussion tonight, joe cincioni, national security expert and distinguished fellow at the quincy institute for responsible spacecraft. timothy kudo, a marine who served in iraq and afghanistan, and adam weinstein, a former marine who served in afghanistan. he is now at the quincy institute for responsible spacecraft. i want to begin with the marines tonight because these were your brothers in arms who were lost today. timothy, let me begin with you and just your feelings of what happened today. >> i mean, it's an entirely tragic day for the marine corps but also the wa

then hit not hit me kissinger.the center of the story, is the figure of the 37 president nixon himself and who i am many others historians and biographers find endlessly fascinating and many of the reasons that i wrote this book was a conversation with a man called stanley cutler who has written like one of the classical books about watergate in which he goes into every twist and turn and the scandal. most of which does not mean very much to the monday leaders for listeners. but i called stanley a lot as a reporter for the washington post and i was surprised when he said to me, that in 20 years, this about ten years ago before his death. nobody will know or nobody will pay much attention to all of the other people in the water watergate saga but they will pay attention to richard nixon and e will endure forever. and i structured this book has a kind of shakespearean tragedy from in 1973 when is about to be re- inaugurated to the to the crisis and catastrophes and then in the end, the downfall by the president for s

but you know, kissinger is sent to spike. the piece talks basically that, you know, johnson's kind of working on and that are ongoing because he tells them essentially, you know, tells the south vietnamese leadership. don't make a deal, don't agree, anything because a tougher president is coming in and you'll get a better deal. what does it mean? it's tricky in and a lot of ways. i mean, this guy isn't even president yet. and look, this is, this was business as usual. i mean, it was an indicator of what was to come for next. and obviously with this expansion of corrupt, federal and executive power. but absolutely, does that mean the vietnam war were still fighting the vietnam war and american politics today? largely? ok. i mean, obviously some people they make some progressive on some elements of welfare to a fantasy. yes. i mean, who is this vocal minority in d. c, a policy makers, that if you advance the years after $911.00 made policies that we now see the results of in, in libya and in syria canister on in iraq. you know,

henry kissinger was there saying what he thought was the cease-fire he had negotiated. which did not work. and when you look at what happened then compared to what happened now, the biden administration has achieved much more but it is only marginal, it's only a marginal approve meant over the first time we've tried to do this the lesson seems to be we do not know how to and no one knows how to run and organize safe evacuation from a war they lose. that is exactly right, lawrence, overtreat under fire is one of the most difficult military missions to execute. napoleon lost four more troops in his retreat from moscow than he lost in the invasion of russia in the first place. we are not used to this kind of action. we have lost the memory of what happened in laos, in cambodia, and in vietnam. you put it right. we have lost this war, and what we are seeing is the end of 20 years of failed strategy, failed military operations, failed nation building, and yet the discussion in washington is exactly the opposite of what you described with henry kissinger. in washington we're

his conversation is to show that he was the architect of these moves and not henry kissinger.but at the center of this story, the figure of nixon himself who i and many other historians and biographers find endlessly fascinating. one of the reasons i read this book as i had a conversation with a man who has written one of the classical books about watergate in which he goes into every twist and turn in the scandal most of which don't mean very much to modern-day readers or listeners but i called stanley up as a reporter for the "washington post" and was surprised when he said to me about ten years ago nobody will pay much attention to all the other people in the watergate saga but they will pay attention to richard nixon and nixon will endure forever. i structured this book as a kind of shakespearean tragedy from hubris in january of 1973 when he's about to be re- inaugurated through crisis, catastrophe and in the end the downfall of the president for setting the stage but as you will see there is a twist at the end which i am not going to reveal now but you have to read the b

a written statement read by the press secretary, a written statement by the president and henry kissinger, secretary of state also attending the press briefing at the white house. but it was astonishingly routine. it was not that big a day in the white house press briefing room. people saw it coming for quite a while. and there was a tremendous amount of relief, really. there were the questions that are similar to what you are hearing now, but nothing like the ongoing analysis of every little bit of the exit. and at that time, they were only aware of two helicopter pilots who have been killed in the evacuation. turns out there were two marines who were shot and killed that no one even knew about at the time the final day. so it is a very different thing. but the echo is very strong between the two. >> oh, yeah. and, i mean, and with all of these things, no war is like any other war and no exit from any war is the same. but the echoes from our history, i mean, you hope that you learn. but basically you it rate and it doesn't always necessarily get you smarter. >> yeah. we'll see what the p

but even before that happened, henry kissinger is back out there thinking we need to hear from him. henry kissinger, whose legacy, whose resume includes destroying countries throughout latin america and africa. we need to hear from him now? the war hawks are back, david. what do you make of it? >> well, listening to henry kissinger is sort of like going to bernie madoff for financial advice at this point. he barely nods to vietnam in that piece. he is behind the secret bombing of cambodia that didn't work in vietnam and prolonged there. he mentioned the wars in central america, latin america and other places so he has a lot of blood on his hands. i don't think he should be part of the debate at this time. it's unfortunate that this is happening during this humanitarian crisis and my condolensces go out to the family members and colleagues of those killed today, but we're seeing a reckoning. for 20 years, for 20 years, longer than we were in vietnam, we have been telling lies to the american public. the media but mainly the government about what was happening in afghanistan. and now

kissinger has also said that on the one hand, americans frequently seem to regard foreign policy as an optional activity and on the other hand, the breath of the american principles should be universal and believe that justice would be served if all nations into our nation. in this sometimes begets another belief. that the u.s. foreign policy should have a purpose of spreading our universal truths. winston churchill knew better and remember, this is a man who loved our country. winston churchill understood this custody of history. the vast inertia nations and national cultures. he was adverse to unrealistic national ambitions abroad. the united states had paid a steep price for not sharing his realism about this. in march of 2003, three weeks before the u.s. invasion of iraq, president george w. bush said, and i quote that human cultures can be vastly different if the human heart desires the same things, everywhere in earth. that is, i suggest and i think churchill would said, wishful thinking. exactly the sort of thinking that churchill deplored. it is refuted by virtually every chapt

there was coleman, that group and henry kissinger. how were those relationships after? >> they were all very different. it was a complicated relationship, for sure. his relationship with some of his aides was a little more personal. again, he felt their suffering very personally. particularly the ones that went to jail. mitchell and halderman. these were things that weighed on them. the stories where they reach out. nixon calls him. it's a pretty emotional conversation. he felt their grief very personally. there are a will the of those stories in here and a lot of those conversations. the heart and soul of the book by design is really to show him kind of emerging from this emotional state in '74 and '75 and really focusing on his policy objectives and really sort of taking him seriously as an ex-president and what he was trying to achieve and what he was trying to achieve was become a counselor and adviser on foreign policy. most of the book adviser to focus on those relationships, reagan, reagan's team, scholtz, mcfarland and bush with james baker and bill clinton. tho

and henry kissinger, secretary of state, also attending the press briefing at the white house. it was astonishing routine. it was not that big a day and the white house press briefing room. people saw it coming for quite awhile, and there was a tremendous amount of relief, really. there were questions that resemble somewhat you're hearing now, but nothing like this ongoing analysis of every little bit of the exit. and that time, they were only aware of two helicopter pilots have been killed in the evacuation. it turns out there were two marines who were shot and killed, and no one knew about that time. it's a very different thing. but the echoes very strong between the two. >> yes, and with all of these, things nowhere is like any other war. no exit is like any exit from this war. from our experience in vietnam, from the soviets experience in afghanistan, even the british experience before that, i mean, you hope that you learn but basically you iterate, and it doesn't always necessarily mean that you get it right next time. >> we'll see with the president says. >> tomorrow yeah

henry kissinger was probably just flirting with her, and she had a name. frances fitzgerald.ple knew where she came from, so there was that kind of vision too, the attraction. and the first days she comes back to the united states reluctantly knowing she had to leave the war, because it had gotten to be too much, and the first thing she does is go to the most famous party of the 20th century practically, truman capote's black and white ball, and the first person she sees is defense secretary robert mcnamara. so her life is gatsbyesque. host: if one were to pick it up today, is it still a worthwhile read? ms. becker: yes, there is so much archival work that has been done that it is dated, no question, and frankie herself said she would not write the same but but it is classic. and you would read it and say in 1972 this was an extraordinary book. when i asked that same question to the expert at harvard now who is considered a pulitzer prize-winning historian on vietnam, he said absolutely it is on that short shelf. a classic. host: we have about 15 minutes left. this is really

she surrounded herself with this incredible board of directors, names like henry kissinger and george shultz. these were not people who had a background in medicine or science or biotech. as a result, on the flip side of things, i think it is something a lot of, especially the venture world, and a lot of investors, have said to me over the years, they are definitely as careful if not more careful in the future based on this realization that there was no there there with elizabeth holmes and there was no group around her to call it. kristen: you have learned new details about what happened to her in the last couple of years since the first season of the dropout. what are some of those details? how has she been spending her time? rebecca: one of the fascinating things is she just had a baby about a month ago. the trial was postponed multiple times because of the pandemic. . it was also postponed this recently because she gave birth in july to a son. she is in a new relationship with a gentleman named billy evans. billy evans is the heir to the evans hotel fortune, a group of hotels in t

does it put that in perspective famed killer henry kissinger sends to 0 month imprison, famed puppet of murderous profiteers. george w bush bush sentenced to 0 months in prison. prolific serial killer general mad dog madness sentenced to 0 months in prison. superstar killers of, of children, bill going and madeline albright, who said in an interview that killing half a 1000000 iraq in children was, quote, worth it. 2 of them were sentenced to 0 months in prison. people responsible for all of the war crimes creek created committed by our drone a fascination program 0 months in prison. but the guy who revealed the war crimes daniel hale, 45 months in prison, vision of not telling the truth for several years, we hear redacted. the night have been following the story of the syrian chemical weapons attacks. and the story followed an interesting path, basically starting after the 2013 chemical attack. and due to, we told you it was bull that a shot had used chemical weapons, even though he knew it would mean any or certain attack by the us military. then there was another chemical attack t

when a taliban spokesman shows up, he is treated like henry kissinger. >> the afghan ambassador saidiban is carrying out mass executions. what is your response to these atrocities? >> these accusations are totally baseless and totally wrong. [inaudible]. >> will you allowing elections to happen in afghanistan and allow women to participate in politics? we have lost our connection there. >> i think he lost the connection when he started. this is reporters with blinders on. the taliban is a mob of fighters fueled by a narrow religious idealogy that regards women as less than men and at times less than human. under their rule, women in afghanistan are going to be forced to wear the burqa and subjected to this authorityanism. welcome to sharia law. i resented the way we cover this. if you don't understand it's a religious and civil conflict you don't understand it -- >> laura: that same taliban spokesman sat with a female anchor to put on a more moderate face. >> he claimed the rights of women would be respected within the framework of islam. that means they won't be respected. if the ne

a reference to henry kissinger and ford's disastrous use of force in cambodia that led to unnecessaryeaths of hostages that had been taken aboard his ship. what was astonishing to me turn down the advice for a particular during the first three years. they had a different attitude about the cold war and about the third world in particular. he did not think the soviets were behind every little revolution and the third world. he took him with a large grain of salt. they were sided with the world view but the mystery is why did he put up with that if he disagreed with him so often? i asked him this in one of my interviews. he's that you know, big entertainment. he was witty, he had 100 ideas he would be an entertaining conversationalist on an airplane, a long airplane ride. they had numerous arguments when i interviewed him, he himself told the story. he said i had an argument one day in the oval office with carter. i left, went back to my office in a few minutes later susan clow the president's secretary comes in and hands me very formally a green envelope. in the green envelope is stati

since kissinger went to china, after early 2000s, u.s.a way or at very least their bad behavior confined to china. but we came to see, and trump administration acknowledged what happens in beijing impacts lives across u.s. >> what do you think policymakers could have done better or could do better in future to make sure they are not able to use corporations as trojan to undermine us from within. >> we always have a risk of this. we accept as part of our democracy, fair enough, threw te are a set of requirements we can place on company, genocide is easy, we can make it unlawful and expensive on american companies say there are certain things so far outside of boundary, we're not permitting it to happen. we should do this, commerce department started in trump administration we began the technical decoupling. vivek: would you favor advancing those policies if up to you. >> yes. >> we started to black list product that were connected to american national security app apparatus. vivek: that is just the beginning, public policy has to play a ro

it is, a perfect accent, henry kissinger's brother had no accent. >> goes bring me a coke [unintelligiblea kid, he was a big rebel and he gives this interview and fortune in 2004 how he talked about how he grew up in a really strict german, austrian upbringing and he said i was kind of a rebel, i like to break the rules but they wanted conformity. it was okay for little arnold to be a rebel but no one else could be a rebel, what a spoilsport. >> he keeps his routine up, people may not want him to come back. >> laura: don't you miss him as governor? not. >> before we go, there was a house husband of the hamptons sighting. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ the brother is on the way out but at least chris is doing his time off. he's busting a move, i kind of like him. >> laura: he's a pretty good dancer, yeah. >> it beats the q-tip routine. >> laura: i like that rather than his trying to climb out of the basement reenacting his emergence from covid, remember when he did that? he pretended, i'm coming, honey! >> at the cnn thing suddenly ends, "dancing with the stars" could be. >> laura: he actually is a pretty good d

went out and spokesman shows up he is treated like henry kissinger. >> the afghan ambassador says thegelist carryout max excuses go what the response of these allegations that your forces are committing these atrocities. >> these are totally baseless, totally wrong. to sway the opinion of the world against us. if someone will go from door to door posing as telegram and a telegram. >> will you allow elections to happen in afghanistan? will you allow women to participate in politics? it seems we may have lost our connection. >> i think he lost the connection when he started. reporters with blinders on. the taliban is a mob of fighters said by a narrow religious ideology the regards women as less than men, less than human. it is a deeply held conviction and under their rule women in afghanistan are going to be forced to wear the burqa and subjected to authoritarianism. welcome to sharia law. i resent the way we cover this because the viewer has no context. if you don't understand it is a religious civil conflict you don't understand. laura: the same taliban and spokesman sat with a femal

henry kissinger, a realist like kennon, as a member of the administration, he vigorously fought the warwithdrawal of american troops. but in his private conversations with nixon, he revealed he did not believe in the central logic that had guided american intervention. it didn't really matter if south vietnam fell, he told nixon, and as long as it happened a year or two after american troops were gone, the american public wouldn't give a damn. south vietnam did fall. it caused a humanitarian tragedy, but in the long run, it did not kcripple the united states. only a few minor dominoes fell to communism in asia, and the reagan administration was negotiating from a position of strength with the soviet union. by 1991, the soviet union itself fell. a key reason for the collapse of moscow's empire, of course, was its intervention in afghanistan, which bled the soviet union and sapped its will. the russians got involved for familiar reasons, insurgency, internal divisions, a fear of instability. moscow should have paid attention to george kennon's sage advice then as we should now. go to cnn.

he said nixon and kissinger got away with it in vietnam. >> actually disgusting and callous and i believeiden as vice president under the obama administration, they realized all of our efforts in afghanistan, talking about nation-building, growing schools, women's rights that was a failed effort. they knew that back in 2010. had we decisively pulled out in 2010, got all the americans out, got the allies out, think of how many trillions of dollars and how many lives would have been saved. instead we let the military industrial complex continue to slow roll us and run roughshod of duly-elected presidents. there needs to be accountability for unelected bureaucrats and special interests for making the war go on so long. elizabeth: no word from pelosi on republican calls for hearings just yet. she seems to be shutting this down. remember this from vice president bide. watch -- biden. >> you figure out how to live together like we do, you will never, never, never make it. america's strength ultimately lies in its people. there is nothing special about being an american. elizabeth: nothing speci

nixon and kissinger got away with it.is was from a credible person in the obama administration from 2010 in these callous remarks in 2021. unacceptable. >> emily: the fact that that perspective and mind-set is occupying the commander in chief position of this country, it's absolutely abhorrent. it's disgusting and shameful. it is beneath the office of the presidency. many afghan christians are terrorized by the taliban's takeover. what will happen to them now under taliban rule and what will the biden administration do to help them? lp. we earned a lot of va benefits with our service, but the va home loan benefit is a big one. by refinancing up to 100% of your home's value, you could take out $50,000 or more. you could use that money to pay credit card debt and other expenses, plan for retirement, and get back on your feet financially. call newday usa right now. people with moderate to severe psoriasis, or psoriatic arthritis, are rethinking the choices they make like the splash they create the way they exaggerate the sur

think of henry kissinger. madeleine albright. the german political theorist on a parent. they played a key role but there are others that playeda key role in shaping our political life. they've shaped our cultural life . think of the marlena dietrich, on gary and composer bella bar top, the austrian composer arnold schaumburg and the russian french painter mark chagall. but there are many many other refugees that we could highlight, refugees have always played an important role in the political economic and cultural life of our nation . but public opinion polls tell us that americans were very concerned about refugees. no matter how noble cause, no matter how noble the individual. in 1980, congress passed the refugee act. in response to what they perceived to be the continuing misuse of the parole authority on the part of the executive branch in service of cold war foreign policy. the 1980 refugee act freed the definition of refugee from its anti-communist connotation and it said they adopted the un definition of refugee. can anyone tell me five categories in the un and u