President Joe Biden's First 100 Days - Biden Abroad

Let's Find Common Ground

USC Dornsife Center for the Political Future

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🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Michael Beschloss, presidential historian and best-selling author, is joined by Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, Max Boot, national security analyst, USC professor Alison Dundes Renteln, and former Obama administration advisor, Ben Rhodes, to discuss President Biden's foreign policy goals and achievements 100 days into his presidency.

Featuring:

Michael Beschloss - Historian, Best-Selling Author

Anne Applebaum - Pulitzer Prize-Winning Historian; Staff Writer, The Atlantic; Author, "Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism"

Max Boot - Author, Columnist, and National Security Analyst

Alison Dundes Renteln - Professor of Political Science, Anthropology, Public Policy and Law, USC Dornsife

Ben Rhodes - Co-Host of “Pod Save the World,” Former Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications and Speechwriting, Obama Administration; Spring '20 Fellow, Center for the Political Future

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0:00.0	Welcome to the bully pulpit from the University of Southern California Center for the Political Future.
0:11.7	Our podcast brings together America's top politicians, journalists, academics, and strategists from across the political spectrum for discussions on hot button issues where we
0:21.5	respect each other and respected truth. We hope you enjoy these conversations.
0:29.5	I'm Bob Strom, the director of the Center for the Political Future at USC Dornsife,
0:35.8	and this is our conference on Biden's first hundred days.
0:40.3	Second panel, we're doing this in partnership with Jamie Kabiler and the Rancho Mirage
0:44.7	Writers Festival.
0:46.0	This focus is going to be on Biden abroad.
0:49.3	And I only have one job here.
0:51.4	And it's a job I really like.
0:53.4	And that's to introduce Michael Beschloss,
0:56.1	who I have known for over 40 years, who was writing and did write a very significant book
1:03.2	when he was about the age of a lot of our students. He's an award-winning historian, a scholar
1:09.4	of leadership, the best-selling author of not one book, but 10 books.
1:13.3	He appears regularly on NBC News as the presidential historian, and he's a contributor to the PBS News Hour.
1:20.3	He's a friend. I thank him for being here today.
1:23.2	His latest book and New York Times bestseller, Presidents of War, The Epic Story from 18-07 to Modern Times, is a chronicle of the chief executives who took the United States into conflict and mobilized it for victory.
1:38.7	If not all the time, some of the time.
1:42.2	Once or twice anyway.
1:44.3	Michael, I'm going to turn this over to you.
1:46.2	Thank you so much, Bob.
1:47.7	And my wife and I all say that when Bob and Oatsy left our neighborhood, they were our neighbors.
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