Dealing With Mexico's Financial Crisis
Director of the National Economic Council and former Secretary of the Treasury Lawrence Summers talks about the financial problems Mexico experienced in the 1990's and the very real question of whether Mexico and possibly other countries around the ...
Education and Training
Former Secretary of Labor and university professor Robert Reich argues that we don't have to chose between the low unemployment but frequently low wages of the American system, and a European system with wage rigidity that prevents wages from going ...
Easy Days and Hard Days
Former White House press secretary Mike McCurry recalls that his easiest days were those when there was only one topic on the minds of reporters in the White House press briefings. Mr. McCurry says his greatest challenge on those occasions was figur...
Cabinets and Presidents
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker talks about the role of cabinet officers and White House staffers in presidential administrations. Secretary Baker explains that cabinet meetings are often more for show than anything else, adding that presid...
Campaign Finance (Part Two)
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker talks about the role money plays in campaigns. He says there's nothing wrong with candidates having to go out and raise money, arguing that if a candidate is unable to do so, he or she is not really a viable ...
Case For A Missile Defense System, The
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker makes the case for implementing a missile defense system. Secretary Baker explains that, in addition to solving the various technological challenges that would present themselves, the U.S. would also need to ...
Diplomacy (Part Two)
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker talks about the delicate negotiations he conducted with Eduard Schevardnadze, foreign minister of the Soviet Union, following the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq. The issue at hand was an Iraqi ship steaming out o...
Diplomacy (Part One)
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker explains that private diplomacy is sometimes the most effective diplomacy. Secretary Baker adds that, "...the one thing that you don't want to do when you're trying to conduct diplomacy with somebody is to pu...
Washington Monument Syndrome, The
Former Secretary of State James A. Baker talks about what he calls "The Washington Monument Syndrome." Secretary Baker explains that career people in the various federal government departments and agencies, along with the Congress and the press, ".....
American Workforce, The
Former Secretary of Labor and university professor Robert Reich talks about the economic successes and failures of the 1990's. "The good news is that, throughout the 1990's...the rate of unemployment dropped and a lot of new jobs were added to the A...