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  2007 (continued)

  May 8, 2007

  Assessing the Surge in Iraq [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]

  Speakers:	Stephen Biddle, Senior Fellow for Defense Policy, Council on Foreign Relations Max Boot, Senior Fellow for National Security Studies, Council on Foreign Relations

  Stephen Biddle and Max Boot, who have both recently been in Iraq , discuss the troop surge.

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  April 26, 2007

  A 21st Century State Department: Transformation and Resourcing [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]

  Speaker:	Newt Gingrich, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, and Former Speaker of the House of Representatives (R-Ga)
  Presider:	Karen J. DeYoung, Associate Editor and Senior Diplomatic Correspondent, the Washington Post

  At this Council event, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich discusses why he thinks the United States needs to make sweeping institutional and strategic reforms in order to meet developing challenges to its economy and national security. 

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  2006

  October 31, 2006

  Challenges Facing the United States in the Global Security Environment [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]

  Speaker:	Hillary Rodham Clinton, Member, U.S. Senate (D-NY)
  Presider:	Peter G. Peterson, Chairman, Council on Foreign Relations; Senior Chairman and Co-Founder, the Blackstone Group

  Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) discusses current foreign policy challenges facing the United States, including the war in Iraq, the situation in Afghanistan, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, and how to deal with North Korea.

  See more in Defense/Homeland Security, U.S. Strategy and Politics

   

   

  October 16, 2006

  A Conversation with Christopher Dodd [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service]

  Speaker:	Christopher J. Dodd, Member, U.S. Senate (D-CT)
  Presider:	Felix G. Rohatyn, President, Rohatyn Associates LLC

  Senator Christopher Dodd (D-CT) reflects on U.S. foreign and domestic policy in a meeting with CFR members.

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  September 20, 2006

  Iraq: The Way Forward: A Conversation with Senator Joseph Biden [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.]

  Speaker:	Joseph R. Biden Jr., Member, U.S. Senate (D-DE), Ranking Member, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee
  Presider:	Alton Frye, Council on Foreign Relations

  Senator Joseph Biden reasserts the importance of his plan for decentralizing Iraq, giving Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis their own regions and a stake in a national government.  

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  2005

  November 1, 2005

  Challenges Ahead For Cooperative Threat Reduction [Rush Transcript; Federal News Service, Inc.]

  Speakers:	Richard G. Lugar, Senator (R-IN), U.S. Senate Barack Obama, Senator (D-IL), U.S. Senate
  Presider:	Stephen E. Biegun, Vice president, international governmental affairs, Ford Motor Company

  See more in International Peace and Security, Weapons of Mass Destruction

   

  2004

  May 6, 2004

  The War on Terrorism

  Speaker:	Rudy Giuliani, chairman and CEO, Giuliani Partners LLC, former mayor of New York
  Presider:	Maurice R. Greenberg, chairman and CEO, American International Group, Inc., honorary vice chairman, Council on Foreign Relations

  Former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani says the United States is safer as a result of the war on terrorism.

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  April 22, 2004

  Iraq: The Test of a Generation

  Speaker:	John McCain, Member, U.S. Senate, (R-Ariz.)

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