mr. smyser is currently the henry alford kissinger scholar in the sean w. lucre center and is teaching at the bmw for german studies at georgetown university. he has an outstanding career in public service and you can find it in his book a lot of details about his career. during the berlin crisis he was in berlin. he got a lot of insights which you will be introduced to in this book. he also served later in the white house with henry kissinger and the national security council. he was a specialist on vietnam and other parts of the world. he has an outstanding career and biography. today he will talk about his book which has the close connection to the wilson center because he wrote major parts of this book when he was a public policy scholar at the wilson center so in some ways it's a wilson center book and we are very proud of the final product. it's a very engrossing reading i can tell all of you. i look forward to have -- having him talk about his book for 30 minutes and i will introduce the two commentators. >> thank you very much mr. shafer. on january

mr. smyser is currently the henry alford kissinger scholar in the sean w. lucre center and is teaching at the bmw for german studies at georgetown university. he has an outstanding career in public service and you can find it in his book a lot of details about his career. during the berlin crisis he was in berlin. he got a lot of insights which you will be introduced to in this book. he also served later in the white house with henry kissinger and the national security council. he was a specialist on vietnam and other parts of the world. he has an outstanding career and biography. today he will talk about his book which has the close connection to the wilson center because he wrote major parts of this book when he was a public policy scholar at the wilson center so in some ways it's a wilson center book and we are very proud of the final product. it's a very engrossing reading i can tell all of you. i look forward to have -- having him talk about his book for 30 minutes and i will introduce the two commentators. >> thank you very much mr. shafer. on january