Episodios

  • Blayne Smith — Perseverance, Endurance, and the Special Forces

    Blayne Smith — Perseverance, Endurance, and the Special Forces
    Jun 12 2025
    As a young officer in the U.S. special forces, Blayne Smith faced the difficult realities of combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. And while not everyone will experience war first-hand, the lessons that Blayne learned apply to all of us. Today, he’s helped build the Bush Institute Veteran Wellness Alliance’s Check-In program that helps veterans get connected to mental health care. He joined Strategerist host Andrew Kaufmann and Jason Galui, Director of Veterans and military Families at the Bush Institute to discuss the lessons he’s shared in his new book, Perseverance > Resilience, as well as why Check-In is such an important program.
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    35 m
  • Bringing Awareness to PEPFAR’s Life-saving Work Featuring Jenny Dyer and Charlie Peacock

    Bringing Awareness to PEPFAR’s Life-saving Work Featuring Jenny Dyer and Charlie Peacock
    Jun 11 2025
    Jenny Dyer, founder of the 2030 Collaborative and artist and music producer Charlie Peacock were part of a coalition of experts, artists, and policymakers such as Bono, Senator Bill Frist, and many others that were instrumental in building the awareness around the AIDS epidemic in Africa, and the consensus needed to keep the President’s Emergency for AIDS Relief Plan or PEPFAR, which has saved over 26 millions lives from HIV/AIDS since its inception in 2003 moving forward. Dr. Dyer and Charlie joined Strategerst host Andrew Kaufmann to discuss PEPFAR’s success and how art can truly help change the world.
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    36 m
  • Data Driven — Dr. Susan Urahn, President and CEO of Pew Charitable Trusts

    Data Driven — Dr. Susan Urahn, President and CEO of Pew Charitable Trusts
    Jun 9 2025

    Learn about the Bush Center's Forum on Leadership: https://www.bushcenter.org/events-and-exhibits/forum-on-leadership-2025
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    20 m
  • Continuing the Legacy of Alexis de Tocqueville — Featuring Stéphanie and Jean–Guillaume de Tocqueville

    Continuing the Legacy of Alexis de Tocqueville — Featuring Stéphanie and Jean–Guillaume de Tocqueville
    Jun 6 2025

    To learn more about the work the Tocqueville Foundation does, click here.

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    32 m
  • Dr. R. Gerald Turner -- Shaping SMU's Legacy

    Dr. R. Gerald Turner -- Shaping SMU's Legacy
    May 29 2025
    Dr. Turner served as SMU’s president for 30 years. During his impressive career, he achieved significant milestones from being a key player in bringing the George W. Bush Presidential Center to SMU’s campus to getting SMU into to the ACC. He has left quite a legacy. Dr. Turner visited the Bush Center for the annual Forum on Leadership and met with Strategerist host Andrew Kaufmann to discuss his thirty years at SMU along with the story of bringing the Bush Center to SMU’s campus — which had some fierce competition!
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    23 m
  • Damon Wilson — National Endowment for Democracy President and CEO

    Damon Wilson — National Endowment for Democracy President and CEO
    May 8 2025

    To learn more about the Bush Center’s work on Advancing Free Societies, visit bushcenter.org/topics/freedom-and-democracy. And learn more bout the National Endowment for Democracy at https://www.ned.org/
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    45 m
  • Colonel Edna Cummings & Miluana Jackson — Advocating for “The Six Triple Eight”

    Colonel Edna Cummings & Miluana Jackson — Advocating for “The Six Triple Eight”
    May 1 2025
    Strategerist host Andrew Kaufmann and Devon Yarbrough, Communications Manager at the George W. Bush Presidential Center sat down with Milauna Jackson who portrays Captain Abby Campbell in the 2024 Netflix film, “The Six Triple Eight” and Retired Army Col. Edna Cummings, a passionate advocate whose work led to two crucial recognitions for the 6888. Milauna discusses what it was like working on the Netflix film while Col. Cummings shares the behind-the-scenes bipartisan advocacy for the battalion who played a critical role in World War II.
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    43 m
  • Veteran Leadership Program’s Dennis Miller — Service and Story: Upholding the 6888 Legacy

    Veteran Leadership Program’s Dennis Miller — Service and Story: Upholding the 6888 Legacy
    Apr 29 2025

    To learn more about the incredible heroes of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion like Dennis' grandmother, Sylvia Armstrong, watch the documentary The SixTriple Eight.

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    35 m
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