Always taking advantage of that. Thanks and thanks for the opportunity to speak about the amazing young people that, as the president and ceo of student veterans of america, that i get to represent. And so to start with a little bit of background on student veterans of america or sva, started six years ago on 20 campuses because when student vets were transitioning they saw that the College Environment or higher ed was not prepared for student vets. We were older, we were much more mature. We had a different world view than just coming out of high school than say the traditional student. And so these vets met in chicago and we started on 20 campuses six years ago and today we are on more than is,000 campuses representing those 1,000 chapters with more than 400,000 student vets being serviced by our policy, our advocacy and the work we do in delivering programs. I was very fortunate to be helped by general pace and katy who is here with wall street war fighters and i had a personal sitd
That is from politico. President obama went to cooperstown to talk about increasing tourism in the United States. This is 15 minutes. The president thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you. There must be some white sox fans here somewhere. It is great to be here in cooperstown. And i have to say that in addition to just wonderful people, those of you all across america and around the world who have not been here, this is a gorgeous place. We came in by helicopter and had a chance to see the landscape and it looks like a spectacular place to spend a few days, a week however long you want to stay. Ill bet people will be happy to have you. And although he is not here yet, i want to acknowledge the governor of new york. He had a conflict and hes on his way up. But he is really focused on jobs in upstate new york your governor, andrew cuomo. I want to thank your mayor, jeff katz, for having me, and his great hospitality, and everybody who was involved in arranging the visit. Weve also got, b