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U.S. Secretary Condoleezza Rice is reviewing U.S financial support in Pakistan following Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf's decision Saturday to declare 'emergency rule'. An update on political developments in Pakistan, U.S - Pakistan relations, and implications for the U.S war on terror.
James Kitfield, senior correspondent, "National Journal" magazine
Stephen Cohen, director of the South Asia Project at the Brookings Institution
Aryn Baker, South Asia correspondent, Time magazine
Frederic Grare, visiting scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Journalist Thomas DeFrank spent more than three decades having candid, off-the-record conversations with Gerald Ford. The only proviso was that DeFrank could not report on what was said until after Ford's death. DeFrank reports on Ford's real feelings about pardoning Richard Nixon, his anger at Ronald Reagan for challenging him in 1976, and what he thought about the all of the presidents that followed him.
Thomas DeFrank, Washington bureau chief for the "New York Daily News" and coauthor of "Bare Knuckles and Back Rooms," "The Politics of Diplomacy," and "Quest for the Presidency 1992"
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