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Overheard at the Bush Center
by George W. Bush Presidential Center
Overheard at the George W. Bush Presidential Center brings you the latest conversations about the world’s most pressing challenges. Join Bush Center experts as they talk to leading policy makers, business leaders, and people on the front lines of change about issues like immigration, economic opportunity, education, democracy and the importance of free societies.
Episodes
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A Conversation with Allen Levi, Author of "Theo of Golden"
The Bush Center announced its new series, Americans: Against All Odds, presented by The Haidar Family. This series spotlights individuals who embody the American spirit of resilience and grit. The inaugural program featured New York Times bestselling author Allen Levi, who shared his journey from...
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A Legacy of Service: America at the 25th Anniversary of 9/11
The Bush Center commemorated the 25th anniversary of 9/11 with an Engage at the Bush Center program presented by NexPoint. The evening opened with a moderated conversation between General Dan Caine, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and former Deputy National Security Advisor J.D. Crouch....
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The Mission of Air Force One
The Bush Center recently hosted The Mission of Air Force One – part of our popular public programming series, Engage at the Bush Center, presented by NexPoint. The conversation featured retired Colonel Mark Tillman — President George W. Bush’s pilot and commander of Air Force One; Reginald…
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A Conversation with Justice Amy Coney Barrett
United States Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined Shilo Brooks, President and CEO of the Bush Center, to discuss her book, Listening to the Law: Reflections on the Court and Constitution for a special Engage at the Bush Center, presented by NexPoint. During their discussion, she...
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A Conversation with Walter Isaacson on “The Greatest Sentence Ever Written”
As part of the Engage at the Bush Center series, presented by NexPoint, the Bush Center hosted highly acclaimed author and biographer Walter Isaacson in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. In reflecting on his latest book, Isaacson discussed the Declaration of Independence’s most defining...
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Forum on Leadership 2026: At Liberty to Speak
Recently, the Bush Center held the ninth Forum on Leadership focused on the theme The Heart of America. Forum on Leadership is a landmark gathering which develops, recognizes, and celebrates leadership by bringing together notable voices for in-depth discussions on today’s pressing issues. In his...
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Forum on Leadership 2026: In Pursuit of a More Perfect Union
Recently, the Bush Center held the ninth Forum on Leadership focused on the theme The Heart of America. Forum on Leadership is a landmark gathering which develops, recognizes, and celebrates leadership by bringing together notable voices for in-depth discussions on today’s pressing issues....
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Forum on Leadership 2026: The Land That Unites Us
Recently, the Bush Center held the ninth Forum on Leadership focused on the theme The Heart of America. Forum on Leadership is a landmark gathering that develops, recognizes, and celebrates leadership by bringing together notable voices for in-depth discussions on today’s pressing issues. In this...
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Ellen & Clayton Kershaw on the Power of Sports to Lift Communities
Ellen and Clayton Kershaw joined the Bush Center for an inspiring conversation on the power of sports to lift communities, drawing on lessons from Clayton’s storied career with the Los Angeles Dodgers and the couple’s deeply rooted commitment to service. In this Engage at the Bush Center…
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A Nation Begins: A Conversation with Ken Burns and Rick Atkinson
As part of the Engage at the Bush Center series presented by NexPoint, the Bush Center, in collaboration with the George W. Bush Presidential Library, hosted acclaimed filmmaker Ken Burns and Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Rick Atkinson in celebration of America’s 250th anniversary. Together,...
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Deck the Halls: Holiday Traditions at the White House
In this special Engage at the Bush Center event presented by NexPoint, Dori Thornton Waller, former White House Deputy Social Secretary, Sara Armstrong, former Deputy Chief of Staff to Mrs. Laura Bush, and Susan Whitson, former Press Secretary to Mrs. Laura Bush, shared memorable stories and...
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NexPoint Lecture: America's Economic Realignment
Keith Hennessey, the Bush Institute’s David Rubenstein Fellow, Kristen Silverberg, Business Roundtable President and COO, and Marc Sumerlin, former Deputy Director of the National Economic Council, joined Director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative Cullum Clark for a...
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How Sports Bring Us Together: A Conversation with Bob Costas & Joe Buck
As part of our Engage at the Bush Center series presented by NexPoint, legendary sportscasters Bob Costas and Joe Buck came to the Bush Center and shared unforgettable stories, reliving the most transformational and unifying moments in sports history. Related: Watch the Engage at the Bush Center...
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Laura Bush Book Club with Author Amor Towles
The Seventh Annual Laura Bush Book Club proudly featured Amor Towles. One of Mrs. Bush’s favorite authors, Towles’ novels Rules of Civility, A Gentleman in Moscow, and The Lincoln Highway, and his collection of shorter fiction Table for Two have all been New York Times bestsellers.
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Restoring Trust in the Media
The Bush Center held its eighth annual Forum on Leadership, a landmark event that develops, recognizes, and celebrates leadership by bringing together notable voices for in-depth discussions on today’s pressing issues. Freedom of the press is foundational to our nation. Martin Baron, Former...
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Higher Education and Democracy
The Bush Center held its eighth annual Forum on Leadership, a landmark event that develops, recognizes, and celebrates leadership by bringing together notable voices for in-depth discussions on today’s pressing issues. Dr. Ben Sasse, former U.S. Senator from Nebraska and former President of the...
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Only in America
The Bush Center held its eighth annual Forum on Leadership, a landmark event that develops, recognizes, and celebrates leadership by bringing together notable voices for in-depth discussions on today’s pressing issues. In a panel discussion, entrepreneurs Salim Asrawi, Co-Founder and President of...
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Senatorial Insights on Geopolitics & Foreign Policy
Topics of geopolitics have been increasingly prominent in the U.S. government in recent years, and no one knows the struggles of maneuvering through these discussions better than a member of the United States Congress. The Engage at the Bush Center program presented by NexPoint brought Senator...
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The Six Triple Eight: Quiet Heroism in WWII
The incredible story of the 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, nicknamed the Six Triple Eight, recently came to the Bush Center. The program followed the release of Netflix’s The Six Triple Eight, a film that tells the story of WWII’s only Women’s Army Corps unit of color. The Engage at…
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Food, Family, & Holiday Fun with The Pioneer Woman
Ree Drummond, star of the long running hit Food Network show, The Pioneer Woman, joined us for a festive Engage at the Bush Center event presented by NexPoint. In a conversation with lifestyle expert Kimberly Schlegel Whitman, Drummond shared stories about her favorite family traditions, tips for...
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A Conversation on Post-Presidency
As part of the Engage at the Bush Center series presented by NexPoint, Jared Cohen, author of Life After Power, and Jeffrey Engel, founding David Gergen Director of the Center for Presidential History at SMU, headlined a conversation on the post-presidency. The conversation, moderated by Freddy...
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The Russia-China Challenge
Russia and China are closer allies than at any time in the two countries’ modern history. In an Engage at Bush Center conversation presented by NexPoint, a panel of distinguished experts discussed how the United States should deal with Moscow and Beijing. Krys Boyd, Host and Managing Editor of…
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A Conversation with Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch
Sitting U.S. Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch returned to the Bush Center as part of the Engage at the Bush Center series presented by NexPoint. Justice Gorsuch discussed his new book, Over Ruled: The Human Tool of Too Much Law, and the complex role laws play in Americans lives. Related: A...
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The Laura Bush Book Club with “The Tattooist of Auschwitz” Author Heather Morris
Recently, the Bush Center hosted author Heather Morris for the Laura Bush Book Club as part of Engage at the Bush Center series presented by NexPoint, with support from H-E-B. In her conversation with Bush Institute’s Anne Wicks, Morris discussed her No. 1 international bestselling novel and new...
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Protecting Religious Liberties
While foundational to the beliefs of our nation, religious freedom is still denied to many around the globe. This conversation dives into the global significance of this liberty and its domestic importance for our pluralistic society. Panelists: Rushan Abbas, Founder and Executive Director,...
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Challenges Facing a World Transformed -- Keynote Conversation with William J. Burns
William J. Burns, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, was the keynote speaker at the Bush Center’s 2024 Forum on Leadership. Burns was joined by David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the Bush Institute, for a conversation on how the CIA assesses challenges facing the United States from...
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Human Rights and the New Global Order
America's role in the world leads to competition and clashes with Russia and China, including when it comes to promoting values of human dignity and personal freedoms. Top minds on this issue will discuss how human rights and democracy factor into the great power competition. With an introductory...
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Voices of Freedom
When freedom is under attack, oppressed people’s most powerful tool is often their voice and the voices of others. Global activists Pashtana Durrani, Joseph Kim, and Alice Zhuravel, joined Bush Institute’s Director of Global Policy, Natalie Gonella-Platts, for a panel discussion at the 2024 Forum...
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Forum on Leadership 2024 -- Indra Nooyi in conversation with Ken Hersh
Indra Nooyi is the former Chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, where she led a push toward sustainable growth emphasizing more nutritious products, a smaller environmental footprint, and empowerment for employees and communities served. She has been recognized for her achievements by both the governments...
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Entertaining at the White House
As part the Engage at the Bush Center series presented by Nexpoint, a panel of former White House Social Secretaries shared insights and behind-the-scenes stories about entertaining at the White House. Moderated by Anita McBride, the panel featured Jeremy Bernard, former White House Social...
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The State of American Democracy
In the Winter 2024 edition of The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the Bush Institute, our contributors look at the current condition of American democracy. This virtual conversation will focus on how the United States has reached this point. Guests Jane Dailey of the University of Chicago and...
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The Art of Disagreeing Better
At a recent Engage at the Bush Center event presented by NexPoint, Utah Governor Spencer Cox, a Republican, and Kansas Governor Laura Kelly, a Democrat, had a highly entertaining conversation on the art of disagreeing better. This lively conversation was held in collaboration with KERA and the...
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How China and Russia Facilitate North Korea’s Human Rights Abuses
The George W. Bush Institute, in collaboration with Liberty in North Korea, recently hosted 14 North Korean refugees and recipients of the Lindsay Lloyd North Korea Freedom Scholarship for a workshop to further develop their leadership and advocacy skills. At the workshop, the Bush Institute’s...
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How governments around the world have solved supposedly impossible problems
In an Engage at the Bush Center webinar presented by Nexpoint Jonathan Tepperman, Senior Fellow and Editor-in-Chief of The Catalyst: A Journal of Ideas from the Bush Institute, discusses the latest issue of The Catalyst: 'The Fix'. Tepperman was joined by Anne Wicks, the Ann Kimball Johnson...
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How COVID and Ukraine Have Changed Beijing’s Strategy
As part of the Engage at the Bush Center series presented by Nexpoint, Jonathan Tepperman, Editor-in-Chief of The Catalyst, moderated a webinar and Q&A session featuring Bush Institute’s Victor Cha and the Stimson’s Center’s Yun Sun. The discussion focused on topics addressed in the latest…
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Man vs. the Machine
Artificial intelligence is spreading throughout the economic, political, and geopolitical spheres with growing public concerns about its ramifications. In this Studio 43 panel discussion for the 2023 Forum on Leadership, Dave Copps, CEO and Co-Founder of Worlds Inc.; John Donovan, CEO of Qudit...
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Beyond Face to Face: The New Reality of Human Connection
Mandy Ginsberg, former CEO of Match Group and Director of ThredUp and Uber Technologies; and Nikki Krishnamurthy, Chief People Officer at Uber Technologies, examined the long-term impacts technology has had on human connections in this Studio 43 session for the 2023 Forum on Leadership. Eva…
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Is the American Dream At Risk?
Former U.S. Senator Rob Portman and Nick Eberstadt, the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute joined Anne Wicks, the Ann Kimball Johnson Director of Education and Opportunity at the Bush Institute, at the 2023 Forum on Leadership to discuss where job...
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The Future of American Capitalism
What is the future of American capitalism? Bill Haslam, former Governor of Tennessee and the Sammons Enterprises Fellow at the Bush Institute; Larry Summers, the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University and former U.S. Treasury Secretary; McKesson...
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A Conversation with Governor Glenn Youngkin
At the 2023 Forum on Leadership, Bush Center President and CEO Ken Hersh sat down for the keynote conversation with the 74th Governor of Virginia Glenn Youngkin. They discussed governing in a purple state, the health of America's democratic spirit, and how we can unite the American people.…
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PEPFAR at 20: A Conversation with Bill Gates
Bill Gates, co-chair of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, joined David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the Bush Institute, to discuss how PEPFAR’s successful program model can inform U.S. engagement in global health and development more broadly. Related: PEPFAR at 20 event Read: A report...
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PEPFAR at 20: A Conversation with President Bush, Dr. Condoleezza Rice, and Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete
President George W. Bush joined 66th U.S. Secretary of State Dr. Condoleezza Rice and Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania Dr. Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete for a conversation during PEPFAR at 20, an event marking 20 years of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) hosted…
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The Intersection of Sports and Human Rights
The Bush Institute, in partnership with Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy, hosted a conference on The Struggle for Freedom. The event gathered activists, experts, and leaders who assessed threats to freedom and offered recommendations for the cause of liberty. They also...
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How the United States Can Help Support Democracy and Human Rights
The Bush Institute, in partnership with Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy, hosted a conference on The Struggle for Freedom. The event gathered activists, experts, and leaders who assessed threats to freedom and offered recommendations for the cause of liberty. They also...
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Emerging Technology and the Future of Freedom
The Bush Institute, in partnership with Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy, hosted a conference on The Struggle for Freedom. The event gathered activists, experts, and leaders who assessed threats to freedom and offered recommendations for the cause of liberty. They also...
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Pushing Back Against Authoritarian Threats
The Bush Institute, in partnership with Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy, hosted a conference on The Struggle for Freedom. The event gathered activists, experts, and leaders who assessed threats to freedom and offered recommendations for the cause of liberty. They also...
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The Global Struggle For Freedom
The Bush Institute, in partnership with Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy, hosted a conference on The Struggle for Freedom. The event gathered activists, experts, and leaders who assessed threats to freedom and offered recommendations for the cause of liberty. They also...
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A Commitment to Freedom and Democracy
On November 16, President Bush and David J. Kramer, Executive Director of the Bush Institute, sat down at The Struggle for Freedom conference hosted by the Bush Institute in partnership with Freedom House and the National Endowment for Democracy. They discussed the importance of U.S. support for...
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Looking to the Future: Bold Ideas from Bold Leaders
The Bush Center welcomed Dr. Deborah Birx, the former U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator and former White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator and former Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos as part of our Engage at the Bush Center series, presented by NexPoint. The conversation focused on advancing...
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Author Bill Browder on Russia
Author and Russian corruption fighter Bill Browder joined the Bush Center for a special NexPoint Lecture edition of Engage at the Bush Center. In this conversation, he discussed his harrowing story exposing President Vladimir Putin’s corruption; the real situation on the ground in Russia; as well...
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Overheard at the George W. Bush Presidential Center brings you the latest conversations about the world’s most pressing challenges. Join Bush Center experts as they talk to leading policy makers, business leaders, and people on the front lines of change about issues like immigration, economic opportunity, education, democracy and the importance of free societies.
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