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David Gergen

Walter LaFeber: Teacher, Scholar, and Inspiration
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Panel 6 - Confronting the Tocqueville Problem: The Deadly Bet

Panel 6 - Confronting the Tocqueville Problem: The Deadly Bet

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Walter LaFeber's Last Waltz: A Night at the Beacon
Panel 1 - Extending the Sphere: The New Empire
Panel 2 - Reconstructing the Back Story: America, Russia, and the Cold War
Panel 3 - Thinking about Democracy: Inevitable Revolutions
Panel 4 - Turning to Asia - The Clash: U.S.-Japanese Relations Through History
Panel 5 - Demystifying Globalization: Michael Jordan & Global Capitalism
Panel 6 - Confronting the Tocqueville Problem: The Deadly Bet
Shapers of Post-Cold War US Foreign Policy Round Table
Sculptors of Modern America in Law, Industry, and Finance Round Table
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Panel 6 - Confronting the Tocqueville Problem: The Deadly Bet

Walt was deeply troubled by the annus horribilis 1968-69 in Vietnam and at Cornell, which highlighted both the significance of “the Tocqueville problem” regarding the durability of American democracy and the importance of speaking truth to power.