Tag: John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum

  • Nation & World

    Assessing Obama’s Afghan plan

    A Kennedy School panel discusses and debates President Obama’s plan to add 30,000 troops to Afghanistan to try to stabilize that nation and allow American troops to begin withdrawing in 2011.

    3 minutes
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    Pelosi touts health care bill

    U.S. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi spoke at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on the passage of the health care bill by her side of Congress.

    3 minutes
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    ‘Lessons from a Long War’

    Ryan C. Crocker, a veteran of five ambassadorships in the Middle East, shares lessons from “every major setback.”

    6 minutes
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    Fundamental realities

    Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich offers a list of “fundamental realities” facing the United States in the coming years in a talk at Harvard this week, as well as a list of ways to best confront them.

    4 minutes
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    Focused on the future

    Terry McAuliffe, a visiting fellow this year at the Institute of Politics, uses a Harvard stage to look at the future of the Democratic Party.

    4 minutes
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    Uribe pushes for improved relations

    Álvaro Uribe, president of the Republic of Colombia, expounded on his administration’s accomplishments in a speech at the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum on Sept. 25.

    3 minutes
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    Public service gets personal

    Four HKS graduates took part in a panel on public service on Sept 2. The alumni discussed their time at HKS and their work in both the public and private sectors.

    3 minutes
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    FBI director underlines importance of National Security Letters

    At the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum Thursday (April 26), Federal Bureau of Investigation director Robert S. Mueller III outlined terrorism threats, described how the FBI was fighting them — and how at the same time the agency was protecting civil liberties.

    5 minutes