and it was because of the sacrifices of our parents and grandparents that we've had this-- what bob gates, the former secretary of defense has called, a holiday from history. most of us have grown up knowing nothing, but the peace and prosperity bought with the contributions and sacrifices of our parents and grandparents. but we now have our own responsibility, not only to our communities, to our families and to our nation, to act in the face of this aggression, we have to contribute our part to the preservation of freedom and democracy around the world by helping ukraine defend its freedom and its democracy. of course, our support for ukraine has costs, but every position will entail a cost. of course, in this situation, the cost of the united states doing nothing, of simply turning over this democracy and our security and our economy to putin, well, that's greater than any cost that could come by a supplemental appropriations that the united states congress might assess to ukraine. we know that world wars have been started by lesser actions. and we must do everything we can to prevent t

this is bob gates. and even better, the west germans paid the bribes. so, that was ultimately what caused gorbachev to allow germany to unify. the document itself, the final settlement on germany, explicitly allows article five to move eastward across the cold war line, as bush had wanted. there are certain conditions. it can't move nuclear weapons into eastern germany, creating the situation where today easter germany is the only country that is nuclear free by treaty. this document, the settlement in germany, does allow article five to move eastward across the line and gorbachev authorizing -- . so, that's a 1990 controversy. gorbachev muddy the waters about that because he, in 2014, on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, tried to improve his historical image by bullying journalist to re-writing this history. so, he, in 2014, said to a journalist that nato expansion never came up when i was an, office never. then, gorbachev switch to referring to himself in the third person and started dictating to the journalistic interviewing him wh

bob gates, leon panetta. ash carter have written books and these are all important because as we said the department of defense is a learning organization. it's one of the few organizations in government. that's always driving to do better. and so people you know, this is a bible for not just the war colleges but for people in industry to look at the things we need to fix and i've that's gonna be my last question, but i just i wrote the book for three audiences one is the american people in history, but this next two were people in government and dod, so people could learn these lessons i refer many times all of my predecessors. i think nearly all of them have written books. right and i would go back and read read their books and understand try and understand you know, how they did things or lessons learned just like you're saying so you you were a military family so when you added to the fourth priority the military families, child care, you know when the volunteer force was put into effect in 1973 from the

bob gates, leon panetta. ash carter have written books and these are all important because as we said the department of defense is a learning organization. it's one of the few organizations in government. that's always driving to do better. and so people you know, this is a bible for not just the war colleges but for people in industry to look at the things we need to fix and i've that's gonna be my last question, but i just i wrote the book for three audiences one is the american people in history, but this next two were people in government and dod, so people could learn these lessons i refer many times all of my predecessors. i think nearly all of them have written books. right and i would go back and read read their books and understand try and understand you know, how they did things or lessons learned just like you're saying so you you were a military family so when you added to the fourth priority the military families, child care, you know when the volunteer force was put into effect in 1973 from the

i felt that as they say were headed towards very dangerous waters as a country and my friend bob gates who i have immense respect for who had been the secretary of defense and then when i first served as attorney general, had been the head of the cia. he said look, you are serving the country and were facing a lot of challenges. what's important is that the best people serve in these jobs, people who know what they are doing. so that's the reason i took the job. >> one of the most interesting things that has been written or said about the book is our friend of the nixon library hugh hewitt said that your book may be the fairest assessment of president trump that he has read. can you talk a little bit about your sort of relationship with him and your assessment of him as a president? >> i was never under any illusions about trump's persona and how difficult it was to do with it. i had never met him before, although i had worked in new york for 15 years as general counsel of gte and then verizon corporation, and most of a business friends who knew him, some very well and had worked for h

my friend bob gates who i have immense respect for who been the secretary of defense when i first served as attorney general and head of cia. he said look you are serving the country we are facing a lot of challenges. what is important is the best people serving these jobs the people who know what they are doing. so that is the reason i took the tejob. the crux of the most interesting things i have seen written orur said about the book is front of the nixon library said you workbook may be r the fairest assessment of president trump that he has read. can you talk a little bit about your relationship with him and your assessment of him as the president? >> i was never under any illusions about trump's persona and how difficult it was to deal with him. i had never met him before. although i had worked in new york as 15 years as general counsel of ge and verizon corporation. most of my business friends v kw him some very well and work said he was a very difficult to work with person. advised me not to go into his administration. so i was under no illusion about that. or build up a friendshi

gates to do a commission he said look we should go through volunteer force we've got to fix three things though the retirement system the promotion system and pay should be based on skills and performance not timing grades very few of those things have changed. but we do have a volunteer force it. in 70s that almost went under. we did not pay enough attention to the family. nowadays if you do not have child care, if you don't have programs for spouses to get employment you're going to lose the best and the brightest. you had that is a real priority. tell us why and what you did? >> when i entered active duty as an officer in fort campbell it seemed to meet most folks were not marrieded and had kids. but over time that changed. now what you have us folks are married there often married to military spouses. in today's society most spouses work. and so what i find with the old adage to recruit the you retain the family. i just talked to many places were talking the top and not doing enough to deliver on that. how do we fix the employment systemco for spouses? how do we go after recognizing

this is bob gates. even better, the west germans paid the bride. so that was ultimately what caused mikhail gorbachev to let german unify. the document itself the final settlement on germany explicitly allows article v to move eastward across the cold war line is bush we should wan. there are certain conditions. it can't with nuclear weapons into eastern germany, thus creating the situation that today eastern german is the only part of your that is nuclear free by treaty but this document final settlement in germany denslow article five to move eastward across the cold war line and gorbachev authorized signature. so that's 1990 controversy to gorbachev as mighty the waters waters about that because he in 2014 on the 25th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall, try to improve his historical image by bullying journalists into rewriting this history. so he in 2014 said to a journalist, he said, you know, nato expansion never came up when i was in office, never. and then gorbachev switched referring to himself in the third person and start dictatin

innovate and report this is critically important.all your predecessors, bill perry, donald rumsfeld, bob gates, leon panetta, these are all important because as we said thedepartment of medefense is a learning organization . is one of the few government that's always striving to do better so people this is a bible for not just the war colleges but for people in industry to look at the things we need to fix. that's going to be my last question. >> i will book for three audiences, one the american people about the next two ou were four people ingovernment and dod so people can learn these lessons . i've referred to all my predecessors and i would go back and read their books and understand how they did things orlessons learned like you are saying . >> you were a military family . when you added to the four priorities for military families, spouse, child care. when the volunteer force was put into effect from the draft that was so unpopular president nixon asked the former secretary of defense to do a commission and he said we should go through a volunteer force. we've got to fix three thin

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wanted to emulate bob woodward and bernstein and become known as one of the investigative journalists so they went out trying to find dirt on the carter administration, very unsuccessfully. but it was also a time when the washington post was inventing the style section and so you had the journalist who were -- like sally quinn -- who were writing very gossipy pieces about hamilton jordan and jody powell and the georgia boys surrounding the carter white house, who she would make fun of four there is certain accent and the way they addressed, the way they talked about issues, and the fact that they weren't issue interested in the georgetown set, they didn't circulate on the cocktail circuit, and carter himself, you know, sally quinn was very critical of carter for turning down dinner invitations from catherine graham, the publisher of the washington post. and you know, caught it just didn't -- he, as he said, he would rather spend time with was in the white house and a quiet dinner then go out and shake hands and talk to a bunch of rich fork from georgetown. so, he got a bad check from

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gates, the former secretary of defense has called a holiday from history. most of us have grown up knowing nothing but the peace and sacrifices of our parents and grandparents. but we now have our obey responsibility not only -- our own responsibility not only to our communities, to our families, and to our nation to act in the face of this aggression. we have to contribute our part to the preservation of freedom and democracy around the world by helping ukraine defend its freedom and its democracy. of course our support for ukraine has costs, but every position will entail a cost. of course in this situation the cost of the united states doing nothing, of simply turning over this democracy and our security and our economy to putin, well, that's greater than any cost that could come by a supplemental appropriation that the united states congress might make to assist ukraine. we know that world wars have been started by lesser actions. and we must do everything we can to prevent this contagion from spreading beyond its current boundaries. so what's at stake