WEBVTT - Single Best Idea with Tom Keene: Wendy Schiller & Richard Haass

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<v Speaker 1>Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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<v Speaker 2>Single best idea on a day of a funeral for

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<v Speaker 2>a president. David Gura sent me the program for the funeral,

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<v Speaker 2>which will occur across I'll say two hours, but it

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<v Speaker 2>may be three hours. It is ample, and we note

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<v Speaker 2>imagine John Lennon's imagine being sung by Garth Brooks and

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<v Speaker 2>Tricia Yearwood with a pianist, but also the tributes and

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<v Speaker 2>most importantly the homily by the Reverend Andrew Young always

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<v Speaker 2>in Forever of Atlanta and Georgia, and of course the

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<v Speaker 2>service to the Nations at the United Nations. Within the

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<v Speaker 2>Carter administration, we decided to get perspective and particularly farther

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<v Speaker 2>back on an early Jimmy Carter. It was an extraordinary story.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not going to go through it right now, but

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<v Speaker 2>we are advantaged by Wendy Schiller of Brown University here

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<v Speaker 2>in the past, from Vietnam and Watergate to the thirty ninth.

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<v Speaker 1>President Flashboard ten years later, after the Kennedy's assassinated and

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<v Speaker 1>the Johnson administration runs into trouble in Vietnam, there's just

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<v Speaker 1>a really sour mood in the United States about the

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<v Speaker 1>federal government and about politics in general, and at the

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<v Speaker 1>same time it's running head on into social movements that

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<v Speaker 1>are transformative, certainly the women's rights movement, certainly anti war movement.

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<v Speaker 1>You're starting to see the gay rights movement. So Jimmy

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<v Speaker 1>Carter comes along sort of then sees a window. First

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<v Speaker 1>he's elected governor in nineteen seven, a believed in Georgia

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<v Speaker 1>re elected, and then and then says a window for

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<v Speaker 1>the Democratic Party to leave that behind and meld the

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<v Speaker 1>southern strength of Democrats which were still voting for the

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<v Speaker 1>Democrat Party, the southern side of Democrats with a new

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<v Speaker 1>vision of where America could go. And I think that's

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<v Speaker 1>what he sold.

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<v Speaker 2>Really interesting interview. She expanded then upon the path to

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<v Speaker 2>how Carter lost in the landslide to Ronald Reagan coming

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<v Speaker 2>off the hostage crisis as well. Valuable interview. Wendy Schiller

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<v Speaker 2>of Brown University, her textbook on Civics in America just

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<v Speaker 2>definitive as well. My first request to our interns of

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<v Speaker 2>who to have in honor of Jimmy Carter was Richard Haass.

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<v Speaker 2>Of course, definitive, with the Consul on Foreign Relations. He's

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<v Speaker 2>at c interview partners. I guess his first to claim

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<v Speaker 2>would be Northern Ireland with a Republican administration. But before that,

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<v Speaker 2>out of Oberlin, out of Oxford was Richard hass literally

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<v Speaker 2>opening mail at the Pentagon. He was amazing today about

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<v Speaker 2>his first days at the Pentagon. Is a very very young,

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<v Speaker 2>just graduated, almost student. I would say, here is Richard

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<v Speaker 2>hass On. Jimmy.

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<v Speaker 3>I think it's pretty impressive. I mean, if you think

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<v Speaker 3>about it. And I'll focus on foreign policy. It was

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<v Speaker 3>an interesting mixture of idealism and realism. He put human

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<v Speaker 3>rights squarely on the foreign policy agenda, something that Reagan

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<v Speaker 3>obviously continued. But he also negotiated arts control agreements with

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<v Speaker 3>Soviet Union. He normalized relations with communist China. He was

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<v Speaker 3>a realist about what the United States had accept in

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<v Speaker 3>terms of the nationalism and rights of others. So he

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<v Speaker 3>returned the Panama Canal, by the way, on terms that

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<v Speaker 3>have allowed us to use it ever since. He wasn't

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<v Speaker 3>the pacifist, but he was a great believer in peace.

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<v Speaker 3>He negotiated the Camp David Agreements, the Egypt Egyptian Peace Treaty.

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<v Speaker 3>So I think I'll be seen as a president got

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<v Speaker 3>an awful lot done in four years.

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<v Speaker 2>Richard Hasson of you partners there, of course on mister Carter,

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<v Speaker 2>and of course what's immediate. There is something we'll address

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<v Speaker 2>into January. And it appears after the inauguration, something on

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<v Speaker 2>the top of the pile for President Trump is Panama.

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<v Speaker 2>And all of a sudden, when we look at what

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<v Speaker 2>some people, not all people will say it was a

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<v Speaker 2>giveaway of Panama to some entity of the Panama people,

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<v Speaker 2>and our use of the Panama Canal really front and

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