Politicking prose along with my wife melissa. On behalf of the entire staff, thank you so much for coming. A few quick administrative notes. Now would would be a good time to silence yourself owns or other things that might go beep. When we get get to the q and a part of the session we invite anyone to ask questions. We ask that if you have a question, first you put it in the form of a question, second you make your way to this microphone up here. We are videoing both for our own youtube page and cspan tv is here this evening, they would like to be able to hear your question. At the end, before you get your book signed our staff would appreciate it if you would fold up the chair that you are in and lean it against a bookcase or pillar. The topic this evening is Richard Nixon whose tragic presidency is profiled in a new book by tim weiner that is receiving a lot of attention. Tim is an experience, prizewinning journalist who we are familiar here within washington. He was here for 15 yea
Our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. The astronaut badge is in the low 200. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man who has completed his training and is ready to be considered a badge holder and of the fraternity and sorority, brotherhood or fellowship of tomb guard. We are a 501 c 3 organization and part of our bylaws is that we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, sort of a sweeping generalization, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talked to School Groups and it is appalling how little they know of our history. It is not their fault. We have failed them because we have allowed all of this testing and teaching to the test and not put history on the test. I will get off my soapbox. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups pro bono. This is my 81st speech this year. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is
Jews helped to create the jewish state and help it to survive. People like to forget it, and say no, but it is an unfair thing to do. Then, what do you do for the individual . How do you measure . We decided very early on, we were not going to decide anything for loss of life. You dont give 6 billion for the loss of life, but you do take the ordinary principles of law. If a child lost his father, who is his provider . Was a highider income, middle income, or low income person, he would be based moneywould be getting based on that. If certain portion of the income would be used for that child and it would be used for that child for a certain number of years, and the German Government would pay for it and would pay for it for a limited number of time and there would be a percentage, and how much could they afford to song,nd there is a theme we have other obligations to pay. So working out all of these principles of the law, how can we compensate, like an Insurance Company . It was throug
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