Welcome back to Goodfellon.

You better need a bigger boat.

Welcome back to Goodfellas, a Hoover Institution broadcast examining social, economic, political, and geopolitical concerns. I'm Bill Whalen. I'm a Hoover-dissinguished Policy Fellow, be your moderator today,

joined by a full compliment of Goodfellows, the historian Neil Ferguson, the economist John Cochran,

or our presidential national

security advisor, geostrategist, Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, Neil, John, and H.R. are all

Hoover's senior fellows. So gentlemen, this is a very abbreviated version of Goodfellows.

This is a snack, if you will, to tide over our viewers until you're back in your full glory

in mid-July. And we're going to focus on one thing on our limited time today,

and that is the good old summertime.

So let's start to show with an easy question for the three of you.

What are your summertime priorities in terms of work, research, and writing?

Neil, is it the Kissinger book?

Yes, I plow on with the hardest book I've written in my career,

my magnum opus, Volume two of the life of Kissinger,

and I look forward to those relatively quiet summer days when there are not too many calls,

emails and episodes of Goodfellows to record.

Hey, hey, HR McMaster, you've got a book coming out. Are you getting ready for your book tour?

What are you prepping for this summer?

Well,

we have an international seminar,

which is fantastic here.

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