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Chatter: Former National Security Advisor Steve Hadley's Reflections on Presidential Transitions

Feb 19, 2023
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Former National Security Advisor Steve Hadley Unprepared for a Presidential Transition
02:07 • 4min
3
The NSC Staff and the Prior President's Involvement on the Issues of the Day
05:47 • 2min
4
Is There a Blank Slate for Foreign Policy?
08:10 • 2min
5
How Did You Get There?
10:19 • 3min
6
The Conversations With Sandy Berger
13:46 • 2min
7
Transition - The Real Problem in Transition
16:10 • 5min
8
Transfer of Power - People Matter
20:47 • 2min
9
The Transition From George W. Bush to Barack Obama
22:22 • 4min
10
How Did You Prepare the Transition Materials for the Incoming Team?
26:32 • 4min
11
The Transition Memos - Hand Off, the Foreign Policy George W. Bush, Passed to Barack Obama
30:13 • 4min
12
What Are the Lessons Learned From the Bush NSE Memo?
34:10 • 2min
13
What's Your Purpose?
36:30 • 3min
14
The Freedom Agenda
39:18 • 5min
15
Lessons Learned From the Transition Memo
43:49 • 6min
16
Transition Memos on the War on Terror and the War of Ideas
49:32 • 2min
17
How Did the Bush Administration Set the Foundation for the War on Terror?
52:00 • 5min
18
The National Debate Was Never Okay
57:01 • 4min
19
The New Construct of the War on Terrorism
01:01:30 • 5min
20
Transition Memos on Afghanistan and Iraq
01:06:45 • 3min
21
I'll Believe We Have the Right Strategy When That Curve Starts Going Clearly Down
01:10:03 • 3min
22
Putin, Russia, and the War on Terror
01:12:52 • 5min
23
The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
01:18:02 • 4min
24
The National Security Advisor
01:22:22 • 5min
25
Do You Think the National Security Advisor Should Pull Back?
01:27:04 • 3min
26
The Icon and the Axe
01:30:28 • 3min