What is the challenge that we're here to talk about today? Let me put it to you this way. I think We made a terrible mistake in this country not many years ago under people that were in charge at the time, especially at the end of the Cold War. And that was the idea that the ability to make things no longer mattered. It didn't matter any longer where things were made. (11:34–11:43)
CLAIM
Asserts that a significant mistake was made in U.S. policy post-Cold War regarding industrial capacity.
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