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Susan Eisenhower remembers the passing of Soviet scientist and Nobel Peace Price recipient Andrei Sakharov twenty years ago. Scroll down to read her comments.

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A Personal Welcome from Susan Eisenhower

February 1, 2010

Dear Reader,

In the wake of President Obama’s decision to abandon Yucca Mountain, the site selected to serve as the nation’s spent nuclear fuel repository, the President directed Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to put together a Blue Ribbon Commission that would “conduct a comprehensive review of policies for managing the back end of the nuclear fuel cycle.” On Friday, after a many months of anticipation, a fifteen person panel was named. I have been asked to serve on the Commission which will meet for up to two years to review the safety and security considerations, as well as the science and technology options involved in crafting future policy. This is in keeping, said Secretary Chu, with the Obama Administration’s commitment to restarting the nuclear power industry in America– “to meet our country’s requirements for clean base-load electrical generation.” Commission co-chair, General Brent Scowcroft emphasized that the Commission will come with no preconceived ideas of what the prescription for fuel cycle management will be. Co-chair Rep. Lee Hamilton also reiterated this: “We will be prepared to look at all options and put together a plan based on the best of today’s science and technological developments.”

The Commission has a challenging and important assignment, the result of which could have lasting impact on our nation’s ability to fully utilize the potential of this carbon free source of energy. I am honored to join in this effort.

Susan Eisenhower

Susan Eisenhower has spent many years working on issues related to energy and nuclear power. For more information on her work in the nuclear area, click here.

As the holiday season gets underway, the Washington political scene has been busier than ever. In recent news the health care bill continues to undergo adjustments, the Democrats are proposing to raise the federal debt ceiling and the President has outlined his strategy for Afghanistan, a discussion of which is ongoing. This is considerable activity given ordinary Washington Christmas seasons. But these are not ordinary times.

The bracing temperatures and the early evenings are evocative of other unforgettable holiday seasons, including one twenty years ago—when the news that Soviet Nobel Laureate, physicist, human rights advocate, and anti-Afghan war protester, Andrei Sakharov, was dead.

I remember, vividly, the unfathomable news. The historic meeting of the Soviet Congress of People’s Deputies was underway, just after the first competitively held elections in the Soviet Union. It was a tumultuous gathering and during one of the most contentious moments, Sakharov, an elected member, rose to present his draft Constitution of the Soviet Union. The response to his proposal was electrifying, yet frightening at the same time. The struggle for the future of the country had reached a critical point, especially in light of the political upheaval in Eastern Europe. Fear, anger, patriotism, betrayal—shock—all were deeply felt and utterly palpable. On December 14, just days after Sakharov’s emotional presentation, the news broke that the father of radical reform in the USSR was dead of a heart attack.

In the last years of the Soviet Union, I was making 6-8 trips annually to the USSR, and much of what I wrote at that time had some bearing on Sakharov—and his life and times. Just after his death, I helped his friend and collaborator, Russian physicist Dr. Roald Sagdeev, write an obituary/op-ed for the Washington Post and some months later Sagdeev and I collaborated on a piece for Physics Today on the publication of Sakharov’s memoirs. Roald Sagdeev’s 1994 memoirs, The Making of a Soviet Scientist (New York: John Wiley and Sons), which I co-authored with him, told many intimate stories of Sakharov from his earliest days in the nuclear weapons complex through the work they did together during the final days of the Soviet system. My own experiences and impressions of him were chronicled in my 1995 book, Breaking Free, a Memoir of Love and Revolution (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux).

Sakharov, Soviet hydrogen bomb designer and human rights activist, was a singular force during those revolutionary times. As his fellow board member of the International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, I was lucky to know him and to observe him at close range. As Sagdeev and I articulated, Sakharov was a complex man, full of contradiction, and utterly without remorse—either for his central role as the father of the Soviet hydrogen bomb or as a destroyer of the very system he help to defend. But he was a great scientist and an agent of change. History will say that he was an indispensible actor in the one of the greatest dramas of the 20th century: the collapse of the Soviet Union.

It is during these holidays of gratitude that we take stock and reflect on people who have shaped our individual and collective lives. Figures of wisdom and courage stand out in such periods of dislocation and strife. Sakharov will remain a man for the ages.

Susan Eisenhower

Click here to read the essay from Physics Today by Susan Eisenhower and Roald Sagdeev on the publication of Sakharov’s memoirs.

The anniversary of Andrei Sakharov’s passing is noted in the American Physical Society’s publication this month. Click here to read and to learn more about his life and career.

The last few weeks have seen the passing of some great American figures: Robert McNamara, Walter Cronkite and Frank McCourt. I was fortunate to have met each on more than one occasion, though I knew McNamara very well. In the late 1980s, in the last days of the Soviet Union, he and I were recruited to be part of an international foundation established in Moscow. It did a great deal of work on nuclear arms control and other security issues. But through the conduct of its business, it made many other contributions. For one thing, it was the first US-Soviet board of its kind. And in 1988, we were the organization that managed to bring our fellow board member Andrei Sakharov to the West for the first time. The International Foundation for the Survival and Development of Humanity, named by Sakharov himself, was the source of many stories in my 1995 book, Breaking Free.

Over the course of these years, and after many trips together, I became fond of “Bob” as we called him. McNamara was a dynamic hard-charger, but also a thoughtful man who spent increasing time thinking about his legacy and the impact of his many decisions and personal choices. One could not help but empathize with him, quite aside from the nature of his role and the weight of history’s verdict. He was a man engaged with his conscience, especially in the lengthening days of his life, and he generously shared his feelings with many of us. Bob and I may have seemed like an odd pair of friends—given the age difference and political affiliation—but I valued his friendship and the strong sense of accountability he felt for his past. Like many others, I will miss him greatly.

Walter Cronkite, it has been observed, was down to earth; a man devoid of pretense. The year before last, I spent a few days with him as a guest of consumer advocate Remar Sutton, in the British Virgin Islands. Cronkite, the avid sailor that he was, was still calling on tropical marine ports well into his nineties, and he always stopped to see Sutton. We had several wonderful days together, and I was riveted by his stories of WWII. I can still recall the amusement he expressed when telling his favorite about the Blitz of London and British stiff upper lip. He recounted with appreciation an English waiter who still managed to serve him breakfast without any appearance of crisis—his hand towel draped appropriately over his arm and the tray set perfectly— despite the fact that their building had been directly hit by a bomb while he had been preparing the meal downstairs.

My father, John S.D. Eisenhower, knew Walter Cronkite better, and at a different period of his life. I hope you enjoy his reminiscences about this legendary figure which was written for susaneisenhower.com. (See below.)

Finally, after attending two different dinner parties with Frank McCourt over the years, I was convinced as never before in the power of a truly authentic voice. One gathering was given by Pen/Faulkner Foundation Executive Vice President Willee Lewis, and the other by New York literary arts figure, Ruda Dauphin. He was exactly the kind of entertaining figure that one might imagine. With his passing, our cultural rainbow will be a little less colorful.

McNamara, Cronkite and McCourt had more than a passing influence on our lives and each, in his way, helped shape our world and our American experience.

Susan Eisenhower

Walter Cronkite, who died this last week at age 92, was one of the giants of the newspaper and television industry, and it is totally fitting that his passing has received such widespread notice. This despite the fact that Cronkite left his position as anchor of CBS News twenty-eight years ago. He is best remembered for a sobriquet “the most trusted man in America.” Though such an accolade was doubtless the brainchild of some promoter, it rings so true that it is repeated over and over again.

As one who counted him as a friend, I feel a very special sadness. Though today he is remembered principally for his role in establishing the television anchor, the veterans of the Second World War hold the name Walter Cronkite with a special warmth, much like that of Ernie Pyle. We feel that he was one of us.

He took risks greater than those of most frontline soldiers. The various tributes being rendered nearly all mention that he accompanied a B-17 bomber on a raid over Germany, but they rarely note that he glided into Holland with the 101st Airborne (Screaming Eagles) in the fall of 1944. He was later at Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.

There were no heroics in him; he was far too secure in himself to be pretentious. Forty years ago, when I was writing a book about the Bulge, I wrote Walter about a minor incident in which he and several other reporters politely declined General Maxwell Taylor’s offer of a jeep ride through particularly dangerous territory. Taylor had an urgent reason to make the trip; he was desperate to rejoin his division (again the 101st), which was bottled up in Bastogne. The reporters had no such motivation. To my question, however, Walter made no excuses; he simply wrote “I chickened.”

Walter’s openness gave him a remarkable rapport with all who dealt with him. I first met him when he came to Gettysburg in 1963 to do a series of interviews with my father on the Eisenhower presidency. The results were so favorable that the executive producer of CBS News, the late Fred Friendly, proposed that Ike and Cronkite do the same type of thing entitled “D-Day Plus Twenty Years,” to be filmed on the Normandy beaches. I was part of the entourage, assisting my father.

In this undated file photo provided by CBS, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, left, recounts memories of D-Day to CBS correspondent Walter Cronkite in the 1964 CBS special: “D-Day Plus 20 Years: Eisenhower Returns to Normandy.” In the photo, Eisenhower points to a hedgerow on a French farm as he tells Cronkite about the special problems the hedgerows presented to the invading forces in Normandy.

It was a difficult show to make, and tempers were sometimes a bit short. But two people who never had a cross word with anyone were the serene Cronkites. Therein lay Walter’s strength, his aura of calm even when being very serious.

One humorous episode during that time remains etched in my memory. A scene called for Cronkite and Ike to be photographed in a jeep plowing its way through the loose sands of Omaha Beach. My father was at the wheel, thereby putting two lives in peril. The problem was not his age of 73 years; it was the fact that as a general and president he had not driven a car since 1942, over twenty years earlier. For a mercifully short time the jeep careened from side to side and the lives of a former president and a prominent news anchor hung in the balance. Through it all, Cronkite kept his cool, though his life was probably in greater danger than at any time since the Second World War. (This was before the onset of Vietnam.)

Despite his wisdom and good sense, Walter Cronkite was no oracle. In 1990, when a group of us spoke briefly before a joint session of Congress observing General Eisenhower’s one hundredth birthday, he frankly admitted that through the years he had, in his own words, been

“…inclined to concur in the general press corps wisdom that Ike did not have intimate touch with many of the decisions of his administration. After he left the presidency and we were doing his memoirs at Gettysburg, I found out how wrong I was.”

My reaction, I admit, was to regret that Cronkite had not perceived such when my father had been in office.

The last time I saw Walter was in 1994, at Omaha Beach, just after President Clinton had spoken in memory of their D-Day landings. Walter, my wife Joanne, and I leaned on the hood of a car and chatted informally, saying nothing that I recall. And much later I imposed on his good nature to write a comment for my book, General Ike, using as my excuse his friendship with my father. He graciously complied.

Though we were not close, I feel a great pride in my friendship with Walter Cronkite. Today we still have some fine reporters, but I can think of no anchors who have ever so actively lived the events they are reporting on the evening news. Walter Cronkite, above all, was for real.

June 6, 2009
Normandy, France

Dear Reader,

All of us are witnesses to history in the making. Yet our current events are inextricably intertwined with the past. This is one of the points that was so eloquently made atop Omaha Beach today.

I attended that ceremony in Normandy. Here WWII’s Western Allies marked the 65th Anniversary of D-Day. The program, held at the American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer, was attended by an estimated 8,000 people. Among them were more than 150 veterans. President Barack Obama gave prepared remarks, as well as President Nicholas Sarkozy (France) and Prime Ministers Gordon Brown (Great Britain and Northern Ireland) and Stephen Harper (Canada). His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales was an honored guest, but did not address the gathering.

(President Barack Obama speaks during the ceremony marking the 65th anniversary of the Allied D-Day landings in Normandy at the Normandy American Cemetery and Memorial in Colleville sur Mer in Western France, Saturday, June 6, 2009. Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy courtesy of the White House.)

Each leader spoke of the critical importance of D-Day to the outcome of World War II, and the impact these bloody beaches and battlefields had on cementing an alliance that would forever change the world that emerged after the carnage. We are the direct legatees, they said, of that pivotal point in time.

It was a solemn occasion, made all the more sober by the acres of graves that lined the ceremonial space. This American cemetery, the largest in Europe, is the final resting place for more than 9,000 fighting men who died during the battle for Normandy, which lasted until August of 1944.

The probability of rain today was 60%, but the Normandy weather showed how changeable it can be. The sun shone brightly for the nearly two hour commemoration and the sea was calm, as glints of sunlight flecked its peaceful, lapping waters. But almost as soon as the ceremony was concluded with a 21 gun salute and a fly over by American, French, and British fighter jets, the rain and wind — which proved to be formidable problems during the invasion itself — began in earnest. This change came with virtually no warning at all, reminding us of how mercurial the atmospheric conditions of this place can be. The weather was a fateful part of Ike’s decision to launch the invasion on June 6th, rather than the day before or sometime later in the month.

I arrived in France on June 5, as part of a small group invited by the White House. Our delegation was headed by the Secretary of the Veterans Administration, General Eric Shinseki. Other guests included the President’s great uncle, Charles Payne, a World War II veteran who was among those who liberated Ohrdruf– a concentration camp connected to Buchenwald– and his wife Melanie; and Senators Bob and Elizabeth Dole. Film maker and actor Tom Hanks, known for “Saving Private Ryan” and “Band of Brothers,” also joined us for parts of these days. Both Senator Bob Dole and Tom Hanks have devoted countless hours to WWII veterans and associated causes.

Not long after our arrival in France on June 5, we attended a ceremony at Invalides, a Paris military landmark. At that time, forty American, British and Canadian veterans were awarded the Legion of Honor, a decoration established originally by Napoleon. President Sarkozy gave four additional veterans this medal at the Normandy ceremony the next day. It is the highest award conveyed by the French government. Many veterans told me that for them this French decoration was the pinnacle of recognition. The French acknowledgment and gratitude for their service and for the sacrifices of their fallen comrades deeply moved many recipients, bringing some to tears. At the conclusion of the ceremony, our official party had the opportunity to speak with each of the recipients.

Such occasions prompt us to pause and reflect on the past, as well as on our contemporary times. In this difficult time we are now living through, we have much to learn from the legendary courage and bravery exemplified by these men.

Susan Eisenhower

Click here for photojournalist David Burnett’s images of Normandy and the veterans of D-Day.

Click here to watch a clip of President Obama’s speech.

(The American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, a symbol of America’s sacrifice for Europe’s freedom. Official White House Photo by Chuck Kennedy courtesy of the White House.)

Susan Eisenhower recently moderated a panel at the first Civilian-Military Safe Havens Conference. Dan Rather and General John J. Sheehan joined Ms. Eisenhower for a discussion on “The Media-Military Relationship Through Time.”
Photo by by Joe Posner/The Eisenhower Project

Dear Readers,

President Barack Obama’s first foreign trip made headlines all over the world. To provide some analysis, especially on his meeting with Russian President Dimitri Medvedev, I gave an interview to Adam Boulton, Sky News Political Editor. Washington Note commentator and foreign policy analyst, Steve Clemons, was interviewed at the same time and spoke about North Korea and Turkey. (Click here to read Clemons’ blog about our interview.) Clemons, one of the most articulate foreign policy realists on the stage today, made waves in the last few days by suggesting that America needed to adopt a more nuanced policy toward North Korea. (Click here to read his blog on this topic.)

Steve Clemons, Adam Boulton, Susan Eisenhower
Photo credit: Jon-Christopher Bua

Sky News, headquartered in Great Britain, is seen in 36 countries in Europe and rivals many American cable news channels for worldwide audience. It is worth checking them out.

As the President wraps up his overseas trip, he comes back to the United States with a very full agenda. The international picture remains very complicated and the President had to avoid boxing himself in. Still, Obama displayed an agility on the international stage that sets a framework for renewing America’s credibility and its capacity to lead.

Susan Eisenhower

March 17, 2009

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets with Susan Eisenhower of a bipartisan commission of the US congress, at the Kremlin in Moscow on March 10, 2009.
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Susan Eisenhower, a widely published analyst of Russian affairs and bi-lateral relations, has been deeply involved in US relations with that part of the world for nearly 25 years. In 1986, Ms. Eisenhower was co-chairman of the first open and televised policy debate in the USSR’s history and has been involved in bi-lateral nuclear and space issues ever since. Her most recent book is Partners in Space: US-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War. Further information can be found at her official website at www.SusanEisenhower.com.

Last week I was one of a handful of Americans who met with Russian President Dimitri Medvedev at the Kremlin. As part of a bipartisan commission on US-Russian relations, we were given the opportunity to brief the Russian president on the task force’s findings. Co-chaired by former Senators Chuck Hagel and Gary Hart, the commission issued a report Monday, March 16 in Washington, D.C. (please click here to read the report) which had already been briefed to US policy makers before the Moscow trip. The report outlines a set of recommendations for a new US-Russian agenda.

Other commission members at the Kremlin meeting included Hart and Hagel, as well as General Brent Scowcroft, Ambassador Richard Burt, investor Hank Greenberg and project directors Dimitri Simes and Graham Allison. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov also attended the meeting.

During the hour-long session, President Medvedev was upbeat about the prospects of finding common ground on a range of issues. Washington’s overtures and its change in tone, he told us, were warmly welcomed.

The trip and the commission were organized by the Nixon Center in Washington, D.C., and the Belfer Center at Harvard University.

The effort, which began before the US Presidential election, took place over a number of months. Many experts beyond those on the trip met to discuss a new agenda for bilateral cooperation in areas where the United States and Russia can mutually benefit.

On April 2, 2009, Presidents Obama and Medvedev will hold talks in London during the G-20 summit. Their meeting will take place at a time when the US economy is in deep recession and Russia’s economy is reeling from the global drop in oil prices, a liquidity and credit crisis and the de facto devaluation of the ruble. Industrial production in Russia dropped 20% in the month of February alone.

During our trip, we were reminded that Russia is dependent on the United States to make strides in stemming the tide of the crisis. At the same, an article in The Moscow Times was also a stark reminder to us. It is in our vital interest that Russia, too, regain its economic footing. Reuters reported that many Russian firms will not be able to meet their debt obligations to foreign lenders. The Russian government announced that it will help these companies renegotiate their loans with Western banks–$500 billion in total, with $130 billion due this year. But with dwindling currency reserves the Russian government does not have the resources or apparently the political will to assume these corporate liabilities.

While in Moscow, our delegation also met with a number of other key government figures. All were courteous, but it was clear to all of us that a great deal of work will have to be done to get this relationship back on track.

March 9, 2009

For nearly ten years I have been involved in nuclear energy issues, and I have always found value in taking field trips, traveling to the places that have direct relevance to the issues. I have visited nuclear reactors in the United States, France and Russia, as well as a nuclear reprocessing plant in France. I have also been in uranium facilities in Kazakhstan, and walked inside the tunnel at Yucca Mountain, the proposed location of the US Federal nuclear “spent fuel” repository in Nevada. Going on location has given me a sense of perspective I would never have by simply sitting in my office or going to seminars in downtown Washington D.C. In that spirit, I recently visited “command central” of the largest electrical transmission company in the United States.

Dear Readers,

In mid-February, just after visiting Charleston, West Virginia to speak on the challenges of meeting our 21st energy needs, I went to Columbus, Ohio to visit the operations of American Electric Power. AEP is the country’s largest electrical transmission company, operating a 39,000 mile transmission system that provides electricity to customers in 11 states. Bordered on four sides by other service areas, AEP is the “most connected” utility in the US electrical system. Given AEP’s importance to transmission in America, and its leadership in thinking through future energy grid issues, I requested the opportunity to visit their control room, in New Albany, Ohio where their electrical load is managed.

Susan Eisenhower at AEP’s New Albany electrical grid control room

Like a visit to NASA’s control center in Houston, one senses immediately the gravity of what they do there. Technicians in New Albany are on duty around the clock, assuring that our electricity requirements are met—irrespective of the conditions and the demand—with the flip of a switch.

From various computer consoles interlinked with a constantly changing grid schematic on the wall, they apply the “brakes” or the “accelerator” to keep the flow of electricity moving smoothly. Like traffic of any kind, the objective is to avoid systemic congestion that, in this case, can result in power failure.

I have been intrigued by how this is done since I had a brush with “black out” history. In August of 2003, I was in New York City when eight states and the Canadian province of Ontario lost their electrical power. The experience made such a deep impression on me that I wrote a detailed diary entry on the fun and the fear of being in such a city during a power crisis. You will find this piece on my blog “This American Moment.” I hope you enjoy this reminiscence.

A couple of technicians I talked to in the New Albany facility remembered well those historic days in 2003. In pointing to the large service “map” on the wall, they showed me how the crisis began to develop. That day people on the desk had noticed warning signs coming from a utility, First Energy, to the north. According to Paul Johnson, who was Manager of Bulk Transmission at the time, “the heavy transfer of power due to the summer temperatures” began to overload the system. Heat on the lines led to a decrease in the voltage. These findings were reported to the other utility shortly before noon, but their computer analysis system was not functioning and by 4:00 the conditions for failure were assured. Higher loads on the circuits brought with it heat that made the power lines sag. When lines hit some trees, it was the “final straw.” This led to the massive power outage. Given its location, AEP managed to contain the crisis, averting a cascade of outages into their own service area. But in New York City, where I was preparing for a 5:00 meeting, my hotel was plunged into darkness and the other guests, along with the inhabitants of New York’s countless skyscrapers, were evacuated onto the streets.

It was nearly two days before full power was restored to customers and users.

“Unplanned things do happen,” Johnson noted. “We have to be diligent as an industry on safety, security and reliability.” In 2003 there was a convergence of many things that happened that day, and no one incident, by itself, would have caused such a massive disruption—an outage that is estimated to have cost the economy more than $10 billion and left 50 million people without power. Congestion in the system, Johnson summarized, was “loaded to its limits.”

While system failures like the historic one experienced in 2003 are rare, congestion on the grid remains an issue of considerable concern. Johnson, now Managing Director of Transmission Operations, and others often remind us: “The grid was built for a different time, a different era, for different needs.” Given my experience, I believe this is another compelling argument for modernizing our electrical infrastructure.

Susan Eisenhower

February 24, 2009

Dear Readers,

Just over a month has passed since the inauguration of Barack Obama. During this time top level jobs in the administration are being filled and an historic stimulus package has been passed. It is not clear what the impact these economic measures will have, but many experts insist that the size and scope of the stimulus package is necessary. Not being an economist myself, I am forced to take their word for it. But as a strategist, I worry that the “plan” is largely tactical in nature. America needs to invest in a strategy– at least one big project, preferably more, that could be undertaken and finished. They should be ones that will enhance American competitiveness, offer good paying jobs, and give us something to show for the unprecedented money that we are expending for this recovery.

This month I had the opportunity to delve into one such proposal in considerable depth. The electrical grid, mentioned so often by President Obama, former Vice President Al Gore and others, is a modernization and expansion project that is strategic in nature and vital for our country’s long-term economic prosperity. For more than a hundred years, the grid has evolved. It has been stitched together to meet immediate and medium range objectives. Today this patchwork system needs not only upgrades to promote efficiency and avert congestion, it also needs a skeleton or “back bone” –much like the Interstate Highway System that offers speed while interconnecting with state and local roads, through on and off ramps. A backbone grid can provide the high speed transport of electricity from the sources of electrical generation to other parts of the country. Crucially such a “grid overlay” will be essential if the United States is serious about bringing on- line renewable sources of energy, such as wind and solar, as they are developed. Many of the places where these are most abundant are areas not currently connected to the grid.

Earlier this month, on February 11, I had the opportunity to visit Charleston, West Virginia to see for myself what the people of that state are thinking about these issues. The evening after my presentation to the West Virginia Roundtable, Governor Joe Manchin gave his State of the State address. Click here to read it. In it he challenged West Virginians to think broadly about energy, and to find ways to diversify West Virginia’s energy mix. One could sense the state’s keen interest in how the nation will be crafting its energy strategy. For more information on my visit click here.

The following week, I went to Columbus, Ohio to visit American Electrical Power’s headquarters and facilities. Click here to visit their website. It was an extraordinary experience to see the “command center” where electrical loads are managed over major parts of the United States. This is the nerve center of AEP’s operations. Here technicians assure that electricity flows freely within its service area, furnishing us with the electricity we have come to take for granted. I look forward to writing about that visit in greater detail in the coming weeks.

But right now? I’m back on the road again—this time to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma—and another forum on America’s energy strategy.

Susan Eisenhower

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