bush, and secretary to george h w bush. we have executive director of fiscal institute of international affairs. he has been it distinguished professor on diplomacy at georgetown, vice president of worldvision, a veteran who served in the gulf war, us special envoy to the darfur process and most especially administer of international development. today they have edited and produced transforming our world, george h w bush and american foreign policy, a collection of essays from well-known foreign-policy practitioners who participated in unfolding international events in the administration. i to make sure everyone knows we will have time to take some audience questions near the end of the program. if you have questions please submit them to event@wilsoncenter.org. please include your name and affiliation. let me get things going. for me, a recurring theme in this book even though it was written by 20 authors in terms of the essays is good fortune. and ocean that george w. bush was uniquely qualified to lead the free world whe

president under george w. bush, secretary of transportation under george h. w. bush. and we have andrew s. natsios, a executive professor at the bush school at texas a&m university and director of the skill prostitute of national affairs. he has been a distinguished professor at the university of george brown. a veteran who served in the gulf war, u.s. special envoy to sudan during the door for crisis and now, go today they have edited and produced transforming our world. president h. w. bush and foreign policy. a collection of foreign policy essays from well-known practitioners who participated in the unfolding of international events as part of that bush administration. as we get going i want to make sure everyone knows we will have your audience questions right at the end of our program. if you have questions please submit them to event at wilson center dot org. please include your name and affiliation. let me get things going. for me a recurring theme in this book, even though it was written by 20 authors in terms of the essays is good footed. the notion that geor

that is what george w. bush's mother thought about abortion. when george w. bush became president, he was even more strongly opposed to roe v. wade than his father had been. if you voted for george h. w. bush in 1988, thinking he wasn't serious about overturning roe v. wade, you bet wrong. clarence thomas is the only legacy of the first bush presidency. and without clarence thomas's vote, roe v. wade is would not be overturned. if you voted for george w. bush, you voted for overturning roe v. wade. he made that very, very clear. and if you didn't vote in 2000, because you thought there wasn't a big difference between bush and gore, then you did your part to overturn roe v. wade. george w. bush appointed justice alito, the author of the draft opinion overturning roe v. wade. four of the five justices who are overturning roe v. wade were appointed by republican presidents who came in second with the voters in this country but managed to win the electoral college. and so, the minority of voters who delivered george w. bush to the white house and donald trump to

george w. bush, just in two decades, we've moved from george w. bush to greg abbott, vastly different political parties today, and that's where we are. greg abbott knows that if you want to run for president, which odds are that he does, he's trying to make cultural issues -- he thinks he has this election, one he's moving on to the next election when she wants to one in, because it's president of the united states. >> victoria defrancesco in matthew dowd, thanks for spending some time with us. coming, up our next guest is western oil -- we're gonna ask historian ruth band gap, if a new plan to phase out russian oil is too little too late, when the 11th hour continues. since i left for college, my dad has gotten back into some of his old hobbies. and now he's taking trulicity, and it looks like he's gotten into some new healthier habits, too. what changes are you making for your type 2 diabetes? maybe it's time to try trulicity. it's proven to help lower a1c. it can help you lose up to 10 pounds. and it's only taken once a week, so it can fit into

w. bush. if we could take that last part where he's mentioned in the resolution to end it with severing as commerce secretary of president bill clinton and transportation secretary under george w. bush. if we could add that as well. i ask that both commissioners that made the motion and second it to accept that amendment. >> shall we get verification from the folks that gave a first and second on that. >> i accept it. i accept the amendment. >> okay, thank you. >> director of health dr. grant colfax. >> thank you commissioners. i would like to express appreciate for the commissioners passing the resolution. recognizing the incredible contribution of asian and pacific islanders in the city across the country and again, just to know the past two years the leadership across the asian and pacific islander community as we address covid-19. i'd like to thank the dph team asian and pacific islanders and staff that worked so hard on the covid-19 issue. again, appreciate for the commission for pa

thank you and have a good :: john mcconaughey work for george w. bush. was supposed to be or had a comic that kept him up in d.c. we will tells many of his stories as we can remember, quite a few of them. my hope is used half this time to talk about questions that i have got for these two. and then will spend the other half taking any questions you have. this when they happy to go if the whole session is being a presidential speech writers exactly think it would be on west ring. that is it. [laughter] i'm kidding it is much more like deep. [laughter] so this is a presidential ideas festival. i'll set up with a question for these two about the relationship about ideas and speeches. sometimes what comes off as an idea ends up in a speech but sometimes a speechwriting process starts before you have the idea. so just curious, what do you think about that process and how an idea becomes a speech? >> in a weird way, as speech writers were not coming up with the ideas for their much smarter people in the building for developing those ideas. and away at these id

i mean, up the ukraine, former us president george w bush, awarded the 2003 invasion of iraq gas was speaking about the crisis and ukraine with, from moscow to the world. this is our scenes national. i'm peter scott. and these, the top stories base our the bricks group of countries spending more than 40 percent of the world's population is expected to welcome new members us at the china proposed opening the doors of the alliance. china proposes to start the bricks expansion process, explore the criteria and procedures for the expansion and gradually form a consensus. so far. the bricks group includes brazil, russia, india, china, and south africa which joined the alliance back in 2010. the both aim is to encourage economic, political, and cultural corporation between the member states. and the group is now expected to start the procedure of inviting new members argentina, which was early invited to not clean bricks. meeting is believed to be the top candidate at the moment, meal candle, whether the members of brakes have back to the chinese proposal while pledging to discuss the matt

s. president george w bush. the instigator of the invasion of iraq, of course, appears to have accidentally admitted how in justified his options were mistaken of iraq, excuse me, for ukraine during a speech in dallas. while some have suggested us that was purely bushes, conscience speaking, human rights watch has referred to it as the quotes of freud in slip of the century . the decision of one man to launch a holy, unjustified, and brutal invasion of iraq. i mean of ukraine or rack. i mean, the ukraine iraq to anyway 75, both shoes, 2003 invasion of iraq cost approximately 200000 lives and ruined the countries economy for the blue put down to his age. well, earlier we spoke with international law professor front, this boyle, who participated in a tried in qual, uh, pool over legit war crimes committed by us troops in iraq on george w bush's orders boil, says the former us president should be in prison for what he did what cern's me is, so the audience laughing about it. and if you hear us mainstream new sweeti

i mean, they gave president obama of nobel prize for not being george w bush. the question, of course, the world tap, dancing around or avoiding as does it work as torture work doesn't work. people that have information that are part of an underground apparatus, a terrorist organization at revolution or organization accomplished organization. whatever organized form of collective alan chip i b, they won't frank, no. and the people that you pick up that are innocence. yes. you will tell them to pieces, you'll destroy them. you will ruin them. i think that a few of the people that passed passed through my hands as an interrogator did have intelligence. but most the vast majority of the people that i dealt with work just being picked up because they were males of military age and they were just get swept up. and these raves, i don't think torture is always being used as a method to gain information or, or confessions. it's often just been used are out of it, out of anger and fear. for right after september 11th attacks, september 11th, 2001. a very well known harv

how did we get from george washington to george w. bush? how do we get from washington to barack obama? how do we get from george washington to donald trump? now, one of the striking things is that, if you go from george washington two most presidents before the current president, you see a, kind of, when your progression. now, some people would think that it's a decline, that the curve slips down. in fact, this question -- this comparison between the first president and the current president goes all the way back to the second president. presidents always look better in the rearview mirror then they do when they are right front and center. part of this is, that we tend to, i don't know, we tend to forget the failures, and remember the successes. that's part of it. the other thing is, that presidents are usually pretty talented people. and so, they usually have a lot of positive things that can be said about them. but while they are president, typically the other party, or sometimes factions with their own party, have an incentive to tell y

she george w bush. whom she told me was the worst present may a president who made the worst mistake in american history, which is saying a lot which is the iraq war. she did not have a high view of george w bush in his presidency and even though it cost her members to push to the legislation. she did it because she the because the alternative just looked to him uh, tell us she took on a particularly like iconic status during the trump years and walking out the you know, the orange coat with the big collar of shredding out of the of the white house to the cameras there. do you think that she had trump's number because she'd encountered him and she'd seem in him in baltimore. she'd seen him and san francisco politics. she'd encountered people like him before. well, donald trump's very distinctive figure are there. i mean, there are people i'm not sure i'd know a lot of people who are like don't even jersey and he's like everybody you go before land. he's like everybody knows that if you grew up in jersey

yeah george w bush. both of them did a lot of preparatory work and biden's case obviously to get to 206 people in in the white house. it was a lot of personnel work than a decision to focus on presidential appointees who did not require senate confirmation. he also worked on a developing information and strategies on issues that may came up. such as the date went under a heading of unconventional challenges what an unconventional challenges. could they possibly face and then assigning people to work on those challenges flesh them out and then develop mitigating strategies. so the preparatory work early is not just mandated by the government. it's also good practice by the candidates. that's tremendously helpful. i mean my read on your really interesting paper martha, is that the candidates and the government have put so much more? resources and attention into transitions in this 21st century and yet the transitions have for the most part been less smooth. which i think is a paradox that is worth explorin