have done at yale is a professor of islamic studies at yale. and if she came along for the meeting i had with the secretary of yale university on july 23, a meeting with linda lorimer, and she did not speak at that time, but she has since written at yale alumni magazines website that she -- 25 years of traveling in the middle east have never, ever seen any pictures of either muhammed or olli or any other depiction. and thus showing the offending cartoons were not only superfluous, to my argument, but would also for sure up and muslims and cause violence. a violent outcry begins the cartoons would be inevitable she concludes. and those who understand middle eastern cultural sensibilities and who hope to promote cultural understanding and interfaith dialogue should certainly understand why publishing a book with many portrayals of the prophet mohammed would be a major mistake that it is bound to offend the world's muslims and beyond that, to provoke a violent and potentially deadly reaction. she's also upset that i'm not grateful to yale universi

i also had a chance to have taken a class from the cold war at yale.one of the issues that we discussed was the role of personalities and bringing about the demise of the soviet union and the communist system. in your talky make a good point that pope john paul ii, reagan, gorbachev, other key people played an instrumental role, but you also talk about the rise of educational standards in the soviet union. you talk about social trends that were under way. my question to you is coming in your intellectual framework the you see the will of personalities being more significant? do you see them as movers and makers of history? to you see them as a new reflection of the social trends which are sweeping tax. >> said think the answer is neither. you know, if gorbachev had been a bit older when he had come to power in 1954i don't think he could have persuaded paul remoty similarly. so in that sense i absolutely reject the decisive role. the same personality coming to power in 1953 stalinist, concerned by the fact that he didn't have such a highly educated popu

i also found the langston hughes papers at yale in the library and read them. >> how long did he stay russia? >> just over 18 months. >> communist the whole time he was there? >> absolutely, yes. part of arthur koestler's charm, -- what makes him impressive is the degree of every ideology that he pursued. when he was a zionist, he was an impeccable zionist. he dug down to the roots of zionism. when he became a communist, he did exactly the same thing. he became an absolute expert. he had an amazing way of assimilating books and ideas. i was rather amused to read one or two of the skeptical reviews when he was in the ukraine in the early 1930's when there was a famine and he ignored it and pretended it was not there. it was arthur koestler who pointed this out later in life. he understood that he had been blinded with his enthusiasm. you can regard this as a defect or a virtue. once he entered into something, he was blind, in many ways, to its defects. >> we are in the middle 30's and he marries for the first time and i want to go through the three marriages that he had. >> ok. >> and

he was extremely affluent guy also from the houston region, but he had gone to yale. is dead was assistant secretary of state of the eisenhower administration. but he was a cia mole or spy. so consider that, given molly's politics as you know. molly was once engaged to a young man whose father was frankly a covert diplomat, frankly cia operative. that boggles my mind because i know that molly knew that. what we're talking but here is a process of transformation and i will explain why it's relevant in her life. this guide was off the charts. maybe i could just read you just a smattering. this is such a radical transformation in a moment of molly's life. his name was hank hall and. at yale he spoke seven limoges, was a dj on a spanish lane which station in new haven, studied hypnotism, had a prosperity brought back from south america and taught to sing opera. he wrote an italian were sardar, remind people he was a near-death blue baby born when the volcano erupted in new mexico so what he was planning to add to advance to enter me to be the holy hell out of most people

he was an extremely affluent hao yale and hisssisnt secretary of state at the eisenhower administration but he was also a cia spy. so consider that given her politics as you know what she was once engaged to a young man who's father was a covert diplomat at the cia operative. it boggles my mind because i know that molly knew that. what we are talking about here is a process of transformation and i will explain why i think it is relevant in her life. this guy was off the charts. maybe i could just read you a smattering. this is such a radical transformation moment in molly's life, this relationship. his name was hank at yale he was a deejay, studied hipness to some, had a prize to repair it he brought back from south america and it taught to sing opera and a role in an italian motorcycle, reminded people he was a near death blue baby born when the volcano erupted in mexico so that he was planning to do advanced studies in journal germany to beat the people of the court and become an atheist. this is her fiance. he was wired with news coverage reading from one topic to another, kafta need

the aclu, nyu and i think yale and students are now working to put together to keep the government from destroying the records that are there. we have delicate problems with the attorneys getting their notes because there are questions of attorney general/client confidences and we will preserve this for decades people will be able to look and actually see the notes people took while they're interviewing their detainees page after page over several years and they are quite compelling and quite gripping. it's an interesting thing about the role of the lawyers here. we have lawyers who are incredibly important to the process. who felt that they didn't want this to be the lawyers' stories. while they are proud of the law and the role the law played in developing this, they didn't think the issue was glorifying the lawyers. the issue was how to get the story out and there are some stories that we still do not have people from people who have incredibly important roles just because they didn't want to participate in a way that would seek to glorify the lawyers. it's intended to explain. so pe

and they met at the yale club, i think it was, typical herb in his army uniform. mr. meyer in his very, you know, vest and so forth, proper, and mr. meyer told him -- he said, i want you to look at us and see if you like us and i'm going to send you copies of the paper. we look at you and we like you. i hire people and i'm never going to tell you what to draw. i don't have any idea or suggestions for you. i want toe good people and let them do their work alone. wow! you can't ask for more of that as a writer and a cartoonist. other newspapers, they're part of the editorial apparatus, the owner and so forth. they sit in -- the other cartoonists sit in with them and editorial board meetings when they decide with a editorial and cartoon -- herb never sat in one single editorial board being. he was a free agent. as katherine would say, he was the kind of person that he was best -- and i believe we want to celebrate talent and let them do their job. that's why it was a great place to work and why i was proud to work with. and it gave herb this incredible range of freedom t

i happen to be a yale alumnists. i want to make sure there's no compromise in your affiliation with princeton and harvard. [laughter] >> i'll give you the benefit of the doubt. in a nuclear age where peace is on the line, could one in any instance go forth the enforcement of a rotten compromise? and i think what comes to mind is mr. mahmoud ahmadinejad and the north korean regime who have a record of suppressing people. i'm dealing -- i mean, first of all, it's a really tough question. i deal with it but not is sufficiently. not well enough because it's really hard. and what is hard here for me is the case of nuclear weapon is tacitly, at least, or maybe avertly is a case of coercion rather than a case that calls for compromise. i don't deal in what should you do in cases of coercion. by coercion i mean, when you get a threat and all the options after the threat are much worse than the status quo. nuclear weapon, having a nuclear weapon without even declaring it as a threatening thing has the potential of being coerc

of course, tom grew up in new york and afghanistan and is a graduate of yale.question of command-- "a question of command: counterinsurgency from the civil war to iraq" present a wide range of history of counterinsurgency from the civil war and reconstruction to afghanistan and iraq making it really one of the most timely books out there today. through a series of case studies mark identifies the 10 critical attributes of counterinsurgency leadership and reveals why these attributes have been much more prevalent in some organizations than others. mark also points out the u.s. military and american allies in afghanistan and iraq should revamp their personnel systems in order to celebrate more individuals with those kind of attribute. without i would like to introduce dr. moyar who will deliver some comments. [applause] >> thank you, andrew, very much for that kind introduction. and thanks to csis for hosting this event. thanks to comrades were offering to discuss this talk today. as was mentioned this is really perfect timing for a book on the subject. and it's

we had hillary clinton who had been an early feminist, an antiwar activist at yale, who was a legal assistant black panthers, who were considered revolutionaries at the time. and we had barack obama, who couldn't say that he had their 60s expenses, but he didn't say that he was a pure child of the '60s, and he wanted to distance himself to get away from the '60s and the considered on his own merits. a tricky thing, but i thought like most of his rhetoric, he is extremely brilliant person and sophisticated as a politician. and what he meant by that was this. you know, he got home with bill ayres, the weather underground, and he got home with reverend wright, right? and it's true. barack went to a fundraiser for his state senate race at the home of bill ayers and bernadine who were leaders of the revolutionary weather underground. that's true. and he was married under the blessing of reverend wright. he was in that church for 20 years. but if you look carefully at what he said in his famous speech about, particularly reverend wright and the subject of race, it's quite explanatory. the explanati

leading authorities on our constitution , in this congress, i'm proud to say, though hails from kyi a yale graduate, john. >> thank you, john. when i heard about the supreme court decision today, the first thing that occurred to my mind was that line from "american pie" the day the music died and i kept thinking today is the day democracy died. i hope that's not the case but i have great fear that this decision is of that magnitude. as russ said, people are wondering throughout whether congress works for them or the wall street banks. they won't have to wonder anymore because they will be the senator from goldman sachs and the gentle woman from pfizer. make no mistake about it. while the legislation congressman larsen has introduced with us is not necessarily a direct response to the supreme court decision, it will do one thing, and that is that it will be a signal to those voters of the people who are not reliant on corporate money or special interest money, they will know that the people who are accepting the voluntary funding public funding under this bill are people who truly stand for

interested and that is donald shup who wrote the high cost of free parking is going to be speaking at yalet 7:00 on tuesday january 19th. so it's kind of related to what we're speaking with. >> to your first point about how many trips we're taking that are quite short and why do we do that -- it's habit. we hop in the car. we don't think twice about it. and once you start driving and become sedentary in that way, what seems like a short walk becomes long because we're not used to walking anymore. one of the things we recommend that people do is keep a trip diary in their car. and that can be as simple as having a pad of yellow paper to keep rack of where you're going and how long it takes you to get there and how far away it is. so that people can really see how many trips that they're taking they could walk or bike. and it is -- it is a high percentage. and those are not necessary trips. we can consider the irony of driving to the memorandum. -- gym. and luckily my husband is not here because he would say the reason i don't drive to the gym is because i don't go to the gym. so i don't hav

you have a man that is an andover graduate the drops out of harvard and yale and decides to join the u.s. army as a private, but in 1938 he skied, he was a wealthy individual and he skied near the brenner pass and decided when the war broke out that the supply could potentially be cut, so fast-forward a little bit as he was a private, he then becomes an officer. he continues to formulate this plan that if you drop me behind the lines, by parchute with a pack of explosives i can destroy this of passes that lead into the brenner. and, in 1944 after the allies invaded italy, and hall is on a train from training as an engineer back from the east coast to oregon, he pence the letter that says to the oss, if you drop me behind the lines, i can accomplish all of these things. and, it is kind of remarkable that that train line exist to this day. it is called the empire builder and it runs from chicago of the way to seattle or organ. on that long train ride, hall brody letter that changed his entire fate and destiny. the oss, just to back up for a second is effectively the first cia or centra

and it's summed up quite beautifully or quite articulately by the dean of the school of forestry at yale, and here's what he says in one paragraph: half the world's tropical temp rate forests are now gone. the rate continues at about an acre a second. about half the wetlands and a third of our mangroves are gone. an estimated 90% of the large predator fish are gone and 75% of the marine fisheries are now overfish thed or -- overfished or fished to capacity. 20% of our corals are gone and another 20% severely threatened. species are disappearing at rates about a thousand times faster than normal. the planet has not seen such a spasm of extinction in the 65 million years since the dinosaurs were here. persistent toxic chemicals -- and this is very important for each and every one of us to know -- persistent toxic chemicals are found by the dozens in each and every one of us. now, these are facts that have been reviewed by scientists. this isn't something that gus made up to get our attention or to make a name for himself. the planet is in peril, and we -- we, people of faith -- are the one

from california and talk about your unpopular profession, he also came close to being a lawyer to the yale law school with bill clinton and hillary rodham. so maybe he will talk to us about his connections from the school-- as well. please join me in welcoming michael medved. [applause] >> thank you so much if thank you for the generous introduction. we will certainly have time for questions and answers that we find always the most exciting and stimulating if you want to ask me about the clintons in moscow you can. you can even ask if the in hailed. [laughter] but in the introduction and raised some of the reasons i wrote this book. i had a book one year ago and i spoke here at heritage about it and it was called the 10 big lies of america and it was the collor misconceptions and misrepresentations that anti-americans use the most common of course, being america was founded on genocide against native americans or that america built its wealth is through the crime of slavery. i rebut these one by one and a facilitated a great deal of discussion and conversation and 12 weeks on the new york

[applause] >> professor barbara berg taught at sarah lawrence college, yale medical school and columbia university. her writings have appeared in the was post, new york times magazine and ladies' home journal. for more information visit barbaraberg.com. >> pulitzer prize-winning author neil sheehan has a new book out, "a feehery peace in a cold war." what is an icbm? >> it's a rocket with a hydrogen bomb in its warhead. it's fired up into space, it travels through space at 16,000 miles an hour for 6-7,000 miles and then it would come down on its target. it crosses -- there's no way to stop it. they've never been used. the whole point of -- you and i would probably not be having this conversation if it wasn't for these people. they built this weapon not to make war with it, but as bernard sh reeve would say over and over again, this is the first weapon in the history of human kind which is being built not to use in war, but to deter war. >> i wanted to start with what an icbm was because i think that tells the story of these scientists who helped create it. do you want to tell me about b

audience interested that is donald and shapiro to the high cost of free parking will be speaking at yale university at 7:00 p.m. on tuesday, january 19th. it is kind of related to what we are speaking with. >> two your first point about how many trips we're taking that are quite short and why we do that it is have it. if we hop in the car, don't think twice about it and want to start driving in become sedentary in that way what seems like a short walk becomes law and because we and i used to walking any more. one of the things we recommend people do is keep a trip wire in their car and i can be as simple as having a pad of yellow paper to keep track of where you're going and how long it takes to get there and how far away it is so that people can see how many trips they are taking they could walk or bike. it is a high percentage of those are not necessary trips. we can consider the irony of driving to the gemma dashed to the jam. luckily my husband is not here because you say the reason i don't drive to the gym is because i don't go to the gym so i don't have authority on that, but there

he was a yale man who was used to going to all the parties covered in the talk of a town. it was a very unlikely background and we forget at this time how reactionary the loose press was. they were anti roosevelt and pro franco and going into the war. away p.m. was the anti loose. it was a paper that was going to represent all the values. didn't have. it was an afternoon paper so it came out p.m. but it was meant to be picture magazine. ingersoll use the ideas of life and fortune. fortune got photographs made by walker evans and people like that. one doesn't think of them as being as important to photography as they were. this newspaper was very different in format but also different in its politics. it is important to realize that two thirds of the american press was against roosevelt in 1936. free quarters were against him in 1940. the press was overwhelminglythr in 1940. the press was overwhelmingly republican at the time. this at a time when 84% of the american population was in favor of helping the allies. one of the differences of the period that resonates today is h

the organization first student head one yale law student had written rand a gushing fan letter one year earlier telling her i was filled with a literary and fulfill the promise i only began to see in the fountain head. the promise of a logical view of existence based on experience. a few which i it was always held but never able to verbalize. now the secular the return it -- libertarian is them. was part of the white af. they prevailed against the us suggested movement and had a libertarian cast. the pro capitalist philosophy was exciting and the fee is a remarkable so this type of conviction that could hit like a thunderbolt might take students first to a group like yaf but also more than likely would take them to the 1964 presidential campaign of barry goldwater. rand herself but the beginning of the presidential campaign the avid goldwater fan a broker traditional stance of neutrality to urge readers of her news later to register in a primary as republicans to vote for barry goldwater. she felt that passionately about him winning the nomination. after he entered a the campaign her en

how many of you have read david maheu from yale or taught david maheu? guy has no clue what he's talking about. the principle mayhew premise is that members of congress, or i would assume, it would be most people in any elective office, legislative office, decide how to vote based on what's going to get them reelected. in fact, what you see all the time and have seen in the health care debates is that people cast votes that in fact pay get them defeated, because what decides how you vote is not you were r reelection chances, although you might have sometimes be reluctant to willingly cast a vote that will get you defeated, but you start with ideology, with your belief, and everybody in this room, every single one of you has certain sets of beliefs about what's good for the country and about the role of government versus the citizen and where you balance security against, you know, going through a complete body scan at the airport. you all have a view on that, and what you're going to follow even if it means you're going to get in trouble back home. so my

he is teaching now at yale. a champ could pass for upper-class. why didn't i think of that?outside the jungle, too. take a look at parliament. it's better than a zoo. we are at each other's throats. why didn't i, why didn't i, your ideas on evolution of creative revolution. why didn't i think of that? ♪ [applauding] thank you. now, i'll tell you another huxley story. huxley and bishop samuel of oxford in 1860 had a debate. and the bishop got a bad spot it off for a half-hour ignorantly putting down darwin and everything else. and finally he turned to young professor huxley and said, perhaps professor huxley would care to tell us where the ape ancestory comes in? is he descended more from an ape on the side of his grandmother or grandfather? well, one did not insult victorian womanhood and got away with it. huxley. ladies and gentlemen, my lord bishop, it would not have occurred to me to bring up such a question as that in august assemblage when we speak of descent and biology. we speak of hundreds of thousands of years from about in terms of one's own familial, not just ance

now, you're a graduate of yale where a prominent pluralist robert dahl who said the public interest isrest. but madison says, beware of factions. they'll undermine the public interest. could you define the public interest for us? [laughter] >> i think my time is up. [laughter] [inaudible] >> these are my own views, obviously, not my client's views, not that they would necessarily be different. the public interest is what enables our nation and our society to continue on what i consider to be a path of prosperity and health. and that you could, you know, whittle down to enormous detail of what that means. but it's a sense that what congress is doing, what this administration is doing is going to ultimately be for the good of the individual citizens. now, i am a registered lobbyist. i've been one for 17 years. i can understand the concerns that this president has. i'm not surprised by them. i think it's unfortunate. i mean, you're looking at someone who frankly -- i think i'd be a pretty good servant of this administration in a formal capacity but it's not to be and i'm comfortable with

>> guest: that's right, he was out of it in 1919, and his sister had married a yale classmate, actually thllow was a year or two younger. his sister, julia loomis, had married a very, very promising young banker named landon k. thorne, landon ketchum thorne, and he was quite the salesman. and by the time loomis came out of world war i, thorne was already known in sort of the "wall street journal" and the newspapers as a real up-and-comer, a sharp-eyed deal-maker, and he was considered to be one of the most promising young security salesmen on wall street. and he had his eye on a firm called bonbright and company, which was a very sleepy firm. most of its big clients had sort of lost their money, and it had sort of lost its way. and he and loomis partnered up. he talked loomis into quitting the law firm and joining in with him, even though loomis was not at that point a banker. and they took over bonbright in a kind of bloodless coupe, and they took it over and went right into public utility financing. and over the next 10 years, they would become the absolute leaders in public utility f

ancient monkey with a long and curly tail ♪ this ape evolved into a man, he's teaching at dwrail ♪ -- at yale why didn't i think of that ♪ >> thank you. now, i'll tell you another huxley story. huxley and the bishop, bishop samuel of oxford, in hai 1860, y had a debate and he got up and spouted for a of who hour, ignore rantly putting down darwin and evolution and everything else and finally, he turned to young professor huxley, and said, perhaps professor huxley would care to tell us where the ape ancestry comes in. is he descended more from an ape on the side of his grandfather, or his grandmother? well, one did not insult victorian williamhood and get away with it. huxley -- ladies and gentlemen, my lord bishop, this would not have occurred to me, to bring up such a question as that, in this august assemblage when we speak of descent and biology, we speak in terms of hundreds, perhaps thousands or millions of years. not in terms of one's own familial ancestry, but if the question is put to me, would i rather have for an ancestor, a grinning aporia man, a man of great gifts, a man of great

. >> guest: one of my best friends of the franklin peepers and yale told me for 30 years she had read every diary, letter, newspaper story, anything that was evidence that said anything about franklin and france she never found one line the suggested there was a seriously is on. host was accused this amiable person is getting from a wife who was a pleasant. he had a possible second wife, he lived in her house. he was very eccentric and took what he called their baths to sit around the house nude for an hour every morning to take these aircraft -- air baths. >> guest: he thought that was healthy. >> host: he decides to their madam she should become his confessor and he confesses all of his sins and she then decides she will give him absolution in only if he will tell her he loves god, america and her especially for her. the chapter on franklin is nothing short of byplay. >> guest: madam what his neighbor and was a beautiful woman, wonderful pianist and so on and this she soon was calling him pawpaw but there's a story about her that shows a serious side of franklin. she discovered that

. >> guest: not just by but one of my best friends of the franklin papers at yale told me that she, for 30 years, she read every diary and letters and newspaper story, anything that said anything about franklin and france she never found one line that suggested there was a serious liaison as they call it. >> host: said he was this amiable person peacekeeping from a wife who was kind of unpleasant back home. he had an english, possibly second wife. he lived in her house. he was very eccentric. he took what he called their bath to sit around the house nude for an hour every morning to take these air baths. >> guest: he was his own doctor. he thought that was healthy. >> host: he decides with a madam she should become his confessor and he confesses all of his sins to her. she then decides she will give him absolution and only if he will tell her using god, america and her especially her the chapter on franklin is nothing short of hilarious byplay with him and madame was his neighbor and a beautiful woman, a wonderful pianist and so forth and she was calling him [inaudible] but there's a wo

within a couple of months of my actual hearings, i had moderated a panel for the federalist society at yale law school. on the panel were a couple of professors and a couple of people involved in the process. each of them had a different perspective on the meaning of the process, fair statement and criticisms about the process. my final question to the panelists was, ok, so what would you do instead of what we do? and they all basically had some minor tinkering or fixes is, as the call them, except for one. one of the panelists looked up and said that the purpose of the nomination process today and the confirmation hearing process is to introduce a prospective justice to the american people. they can get to know that justice. once the selection is made, most americans will never again have an opportunity to actually hear the justice talk or to learn anything about them until the end of their service. so it gives the american people that chance. i think that is what i learned. he was right. that may be the most important purpose of the confirmation hearings. questions, even over three days,

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now, you're a graduate of yale where a prominent pluralist robert dahl who said the public interest ise battle -- it's what comes out of the battle of specialized interest. but madison says, beware of factions. they'll undermine the public interest. could you define the public interest for us? [laughter] >> i think my time is up. [laughter] [inaudible] >> these are my own views, obviously, not my client's views, not that they would necessarily be different. the public interest is what enables our nation and our society to continue on what i consider to be a path of prosperity and health. and that you could, you know, whittle down to enormous detail of what that means. but it's a sense that what congress is doing, what this administration is doing is going to ultimately be for the good of the individual citizens. now, i am a registered lobbyist. i've been one for 17 years. i can understand the concerns that this president has. i'm not surprised by them. i think it's unfortunate. i mean, you're looking at someone who frankly -- i think i'd be a pretty good servant of this administration

there are people walking around with law degrees from yale and harvard who are getting coffee for people who did not finish wayne county community college. there are people, you have to pay your dues. the problem is for us, i had to work every summer to pay for school. i didn't have the option to go someplace and work for free. i went to work for the first clinton campaign in 1992. my dad gave me $200. that was all i had. i had to stretch it -- i did not get paid for three weeks. i remember talking to the african-american woman in charge apparel. she said do you want your check to come tomorrow 41 to wait until you come back to little rock. i said i want my check immediately. >> as a native american who comes from a very tiny population -- i like the black population and i think why don't they have their own networks, they have enough people and the economic power. in my opinion, yet all the requirements you need. yet people in the at the business, people that the finances together. you've got everything you possibly need to have your own network. why are you asking to be on the white ne

how many of you have read david mahew from yale? the guy has no clue what he is talking about. that members of congress, and i would assume it would be members of any legislative office, decide on what is going to get them reelected. what you have seen all the time in the health care devotes is done -- health care debate is people's votes that may get them defeated. when you decide what to vote is not your reelection chances. you may sometimes willingly cast a vote that is going to get you defeated, but you start with ideology. you start with your beliefs. everyone in this room has certain set of beliefs about what is good for the country and about the role of government versus the citizens and where you balance security against going for a complete body scan at the airport. you all have a view you're going to follow even if it means you're going to get in trouble back home, so my view has not been that the reelection calculus affect how people are voting. it is also my view that who your campaign contributors are is not affect how you vote. it is your ideology but increasingly

dave it is close of 1954 professor of american history at yale university and author of many books onry american history including a slave no more published in 2007 and race and reunion which receive the bankrupt prize, and the frederick douglass prize. ladies and gentlemen, david blight. [applause] >> thank you very much, and good evening fellow booklover's. on the afternoon we held our final, it was the final, the afternoon we held our long this conference call where we chose the five finalists, the feeling i had as i walked in the street to get a coffee was sadness, and it was sadness i think because of all those wonderful books we just throughout. today, i had a little bit of the feeling this afternoon, but i also feel frill to have this role. it is a great privilege to serve with a wonderful jury, all of whom just met one another this afternoon and now we are lamenting that we haven't had enough time to spend with one another. at our jury consisted of amanda florman, steve olson, camile. leo-- excuse me camile and john phillips santos. nonfiction of course is an almost hopelessly

. >> one of the leading authorities on the constitution in this congress and i am proud to say a yaleraduate even though he held from kentucky. >> thank you. when i heard about the supreme court decision, the first thing that occurred to me was the line from american pie. this is the date the music died. and i kept thinking, today is the date that democracy died. i hope that is not the case but i have great fear that this decision is of that magnitude. people are wondering whether congress works for them or works for the wall street banks. they did not have to wonder anymore. they will be the senator from goldman sachs. there will be the gentlewoman from pfizer. make no mistake about it. while the legislation that has been introduced is not necessarily a direct response to the supreme court decision, it will do one thing and that is it will be a signal -- be a signal to those voters to the people who are not reliant on special interest money. on corporate money. they will know that the people who are accepting the voluntary funding comes of public funding under this bill are people th

. >> one of the leading authorities on the constitution in this congress and i am proud to say a yale graduate even though he held from kentucky. >> thank you. when i heard about the supreme court decision, the first thing that occurred to me was the line from american pie. this is the date the music died. today is the date that democracy died. i hope that is not the case but i have great fear that this decision is of that magnitude. people are wondering whether congress works for them or works for the wall street banks. they did not have to wonder anymore. they will be the senator from goldman sackchs. while the legislation that has been introduced is not necessarily a direct response to the supreme court decision, it will do one thing and that is it will be a signal -- be a signal to those voters to the people who are not reliant on special interest money. they will know that the people who are accepting the voluntary funding comes of public funding under this bill are people that actually stand for them. that is going to be an important element of our democracy as we move forward u

he holds a degree in history from yale and economics from john hopkins and a master's in history fromharvard. i turn this evening over to him. [applause] >> thank you, david. he has been with us a few months and has made great change and we are pleased to have them at the national archives. it is much warmer here. this is an away game for me and i am awfully cold. first of all, please join me in welcoming eagle but grow -- egil krogh and jerry schilling. gentleman. bud krogh was deputy to the council of the president. he oversight bill -- he oversaw the war on drugs. he is perhaps the man most responsible for getting medical detect -- matt detectors into american airports. >> sorry. [laughter] >> no, it was a good start. jerry schilling was a close friend of elvis presley for 23 years and he worked for him for 10. it is also a veteran of the music industry. you are about to find out -- each man are superb rock into ours, so we're going to start. >> jerry, set this up for us. you are in los angeles and you're not working for office. 1971, what is eldest doing flying by himself with a c

he is a distinguished fellow at yale. that is a big title.e writes regularly for "the new york times," "the l.a. times," and others. his most recent book is "god and gold." "american foreign policy and how it changed the world" receive the prize in 2002 and "god and gold" to him that last year or the year before. john is the albert milbank professor at princeton and the co-director of the princeton project on national security and has been a transatlantic fellow and has served on the policy planning staff of the state department and has written several books. richard is a resident fellow. he was chairman of the defense policy board and assisted the secretary of defense during the reagan administration. stephen is the second of our telephone speakers is a professor of natural relations -- national relations. he has written six books and dozens of journal articles. he writes and publishes the political blog "the washington note," and appears regularly on television and radio. he was the first executive director of the nixon center. will is the

to try to get at these questions, my research partner, a professor at yale, and i recently conductedan opinion survey, and i want to share some preliminary results to date. they are subject to revision but we think that our results are sharp an unambiguous and not that we feel confident in sharing them. first of all, the public expresses some support for the concepts of evidence-based restrictions in the health care spending but the public does not fully understand this problem. large majorities are concerns that -- convinced that research on the relative effectiveness of different treatments will not be useful and that treatment guidelines are bald marble to corruption and abuse. lots of groups -- almost everyone is worried about this. the two most fearful are republicans and senior citizens. they're particularly skeptical of treatment guidelines. they think it will lead to rationing and interference in the doctor-patient relationship. when we as people who should decide if the treatments and technologies are better, the public has the most trust in a panel of doctors and citizens a

recently, he has become a fellow at yale's center. he was a lively moderator at the panel that followed at the dinner. and without, and going to turn to bob and asked him to conduct the discussion on the question, has the financial crisis changed the nature of economic news. >> people are almost desperate to want to pay attention to the type of thing, the selahi thing. and they are encouraged to do so by my medium, television. but there is a much greater consequent these days, and what we have in terms of financial burden is the best of times and worst of times. we have the best of times, people admired because of their ability to explain arcane concept to which people can understand. unfortunately, people often tends to not take the time to understand them, and we have the self-feeding media frenzy. i guess i could ask you whether you feel like you're sometimes singing to the deaf. [laughter] >> there is a vote in my house as to whether i should get a hearing aid. no, i do not. i think that there's a hunger for information and journa

interested and that is donald who wrote the book high-cost free parking is when to be speaking at yale university at 7 p.m. on tuesday, january 19th. so it's kind of related to what we are speaking with. >> to your first point about how many trips we are taking they are quite short and why do we do that? it is a habit. we hope in the car and we don't think twice about it. and once you start driving and become sedentary in that way what seems like a short walk becomes long because we are not used to walking any more. one of the things we recommend people do is keep a diary in their car and i can be as simple as a pad of paper to keep track of where you're going and how long it takes to get there and how far away it is so people can see how many trips they are taking they could walk or bike to and is a high percentage and those are not necessary trips. you could consider the irony of driving to the gym and luckily my husband isn't here because he would say the reason i don't go to the gym is because i don't go to the genocide of a lot of authority on that. [laughter] but there are a lot

he went to the university of pennsylvania and then to yale law school and then eventually joined the district attorneys' office in philadelphia. he rose through that office and became the district attorney of philadelphia, elected twice and served eight years. he was elected to the united states senate in 1980 and was reelected five times -- or four time, aim sorry, after that. so those years of service as a united states senator. and of course it is more than about years and about votes. it's certainly about the substance of those votes, fighting those battles, whether it was for the veterans of pennsylvania. we've had a million or more veterans for many, many years in our state. those who fought our wars, those who worked in our factories, those who went on to build pennsylvania, gave their first measure of devotion to the country fighting on battle felteds. he's always fought for them, chaired the veterans' committee here in the senate, and continues those battles on behalf of the veterans of pennsylvania. on health care, we could talk for a long time about the battles he's fought