Transcript - Keeping the Republic with Mitch Daniels

A Book Discussion with Mitch Daniels on...

Keeping the

Republic:

Saving America by

Trusting Americans

Monday, September 26 - 12:00 to 1:30 p.m.
Hudson Institute - Betsy and Walter Stern Conference Center
1015 15th Street, NW

Sixth Floor
Washington, DC 20005

Event Description

Describing our national debt as a “survival-level threat to the America we have known,” Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels is nonetheless hopeful that its citizens can rise to meet the challenge:

I urge great care not to drift into a loss of faith in the American people. We must never yield to the self-fulfilling despair that these problems are immutable, or insurmountable. Americans are still a people born to liberty. Addressed as free-born, autonomous men and women of God-given dignity, they will rise yet again to drive back a mortal enemy.

 

This is the message of Governor Daniels’ new book, Keeping the Republic: Saving America by Trusting Americans, which was the focus of a panel discussion on September 26th, featuring Governor Mitch Daniels; New York Times journalist David Brooks; and Brookings Senior Fellow William Galston. Hudson Institute's John Walters moderated the discussion.

       Walters, Daniels, Schambra, Brooks, Galston

David Brooks, New York Times Op-Ed Columnist
William Galston, Senior Fellow of Governance at The Brookings Institution
John Walters, Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Hudson Institute (moderator)

1:10
Question-and-answer session

1:30
Adjournment