Andrew Kohut is the president of the Pew Research Center. He also acts as director of the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press (formerly the Times Mirror[…]
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This was a time when we struggled with faltering world leadership, economic development, and the ascendance of technology.
Andrew Kohut: Well I think this age will be remembered as a time in which America really struggled with is world leadership. The United States went into a new phase of . . . of . . . of . . . of economic development when it . . . as its . . . as its . . . as its technologies became more dominant, its populations changed from . . . became an older population and began to become an increasingly Latino population. I don’t have a quick adjective – the age of whatever – but I think those are the dominant themes.
Recorded on: 9/14/07
