I'm John Datsu with my colleague Mary Kessel, Executive Vice President

Stephen's Incorporated, former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of State

in many years the Wall Street Journal

editorial page. However, right now marries in California to moderate a panel at

the Nixon Library in these last hours.

Conservative realism is the umbrella.

Right, as I understand it, this includes looking for a next generation

of geopolitical advisors or negotiators for the State Department for the

United States. Mary Richard Nixon has identified with success in

foreign policy and a catastrophe in domestic policy.

What were his, what are you looking for in this conversation tonight?

Well, thank you, John. The Nixon seminar has been ongoing now for several years. It is hosted at the Presidential Library in New Orbalinda, which is a wonderful place and I'd encourage all of your listeners to stop by if you're in Orange County, California.

And the seminar series has tried to unpack Nixon's doctrine, realist focus, his many achievements in foreign policy, which included not

just reaching out to Communist China, but to balance American interests in the Middle East.

He was a great supporter of Israel, but he also at the same time made outreach to Saudi Arabia.

He tried to strengthen alliances with the non-communist countries of Asia Pacific.

He was a prolific author and a brilliant man, and so the seminar tried to cultivate a new generation of conservative foreign policy

thinkers to educate, to inspire people, to not only revisit Nixon's legacy, and to read his many books,

which I recommend to everyone, but also to use his lessons to think about the future of how will we deal with China,

which he later in life called a Frankenstein.

He warned us against the failure of democracy in Russia and the

impact that that would have on places like China where the people of China who

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