I joined IBM at the beginning of the computer revolution. Following that, my partner and I were one of the first companies to take American software internationally with programming shops in Dallas, Texas, and Paris, France.
I battled the FDA as CEO of a development-stage medical equipment company getting one of their first approvals after they brought medical devices under their realm.
For the last twenty-five years, during which China sought to dominate and replace the United States as the dominant economic power in the world, I was a participant in U.S. industry seeking to overcome poor policy decisions out of Washington that devastated American manufacturers.
As a graduate of the Harvard Business School, I watched as the Harvard faculty slowly undermined the “Veritas” community replacing its history of excellence with one of mediocracy and often anti-American culture.
This was occurring at Harvard while Texas A & M, where I received my BS Degree in Engineering, became the largest University in the country and entered the ranks of our nation’s six most prestigious public universities and highest ranked in Texas by the Wall Street Journal. While at A & M I was the co-founder and first Chairman of the Student Conference on National Affairs, SCONA, now in its 69th year, providing a non-partisan four-day forum which brings students from across the country to discuss affairs of national importance.
Author: “Looking Through a Glass Darkly: Divided America and the Gathering Storm” and “The Blessed Generation: Fifty Years on the Cutting Edge of Rapid Change”
From the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor1941 until the Day the Wall Came Down in 1989 three generations of Americans created the most powerful and prosperous nation in history “Greatest”, the “Silent” (my generation), and the “Baby Boomers” right after WWII. They shared that prosperity with people around the world while protecting and liberating those being subject to oppressors.
Members from our two political parties worked together in these efforts with presidential leadership almost equally shared during that half century.
By the beginning of the new century in 2000 and with the 9/11 attacks on New York’s Twin Towers and Washington D.C., our nation’s leadership began to run dry. Our new 21st-century political leaders took office often lacking the brains, courage and moral clarity. Many of them used their positions to achieve power, pursue personal economic gain, or pursue new ideologies.
Our political parties were no longer functional, and our elected leaders could no longer solve our nation’s problems dividing our country. China was ruled by the dictators of the Chinese Communist Party, and China was given an honored place among nations and allowed to be the second-greatest economy and military power on the planet. A new Axis of Evil of China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea was allowed to form. Seeing our new elite establishments transform our nation away from what our three generations had built as the Shining City on a Hill caused me to speak. That is what www.jenkins-speaks.com is about.
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