... helping President Carter during his election, he became the youngest assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and oversaw the normalization of relations with China. In the 1990s, he served as U.S. ambassador to Germany and then assistant secretary for European and Canadian Affairs. He briefly ...
... papers and hear the voices of many of the Senate's giants wrestling with Vietnam and all its complexity at a time when many of us, including some of us on the Foreign Relations Committee today, were serving as young officers in Vietnam living out those very same questions in ...
... Mike Gravel is a former two-term U.S. senator from Alaska who served from 1969 to 1981. He was a strong critic of the Vietnam War and worked in the Senate to end the draft. He's with us now.Welcome.FORMER SEN. MIKE GRAVEL (D), Presidential Candidate: Ray ...
... were caught by surprise and were confronted with a war that they were not mentally prepared to fight," said Andrew J. Bacevich, professor of international relations at Boston University. From roughly June 2003 to June 2004, said Bacevich, the U.S. military "made tremendous mistakes using the wrong tactics, the ...
... high standards of President Bush's market-opening trade agenda and moves Russia closer to full integration into the global, rules-based trading system," said U.S. trade representative Susan Schwab after signing the agreement with her Russian counterpart German Gref in Hanoi, Vietnam at the meeting of the Asia ...
... the Clinton administration.But, the deal is intended to reward India's new role as a responsible nuclear power.This is a "major shift in U.S.-Indian relations," Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., said Thursday, according to the AP. "If we are right, this shift will increase the prospect ...
... Zbigniew Brzezinski, he's now a counselor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies; and Walter Russell Mead, the Henry Kissinger Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, author of "Special Providence: American Policy and How it Changed the World."I talked to ...
MARGARET WARNER: For an assessment of what hitting the 1,000 U.S. fatalities figure says about conditions in Iraq now, we turn to: Retired Marine Corps Lieutenant General Bernard Trainor, an adjunct senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and co-author of "The Generals' War," a book ...
... have to be able to make decisions just as Kerry did in combat in Vietnam and with his 20 years of experience in the Foreign Relations Committee and personal knowledge of world leaders, he will be able to persuade countries to join with us. And he also will be able ...
I think it does come, as Secretary Schlesinger said, from in part from the fact that Europe is engaged in this really historic political invention of the European Union and of pooling sovereignty, and it sees it as valuable, a whole different set of tools. And the U.S. is ...
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