i want to send my congratulations to the usc class of 2015 and all of those who celebrate and champion those. now i would like to ask the graduates to do something. i would like you to look past the ring and look up the sky. now i would like you to imagine that you are in a light caps off and it took you two hours to be 24 miles up. insane, right? the only way you can get back to the earth is to jump. this actually happened in 2012 where a parachutist put himself in this exact situation. he said if he looked out, he could see the curve of the earth as he contemplated his next move. if you watch the video, you will hear his ground crew tell him to disconnect the oxygen supply hoses attached to his suit. he does not move. moments passed. then you hear the command again, disconnect the oxygen. i think as most of you know, i would say that sitting 24 miles up is not that different from where you are sitting right now. graduating from college is a major transition. you are probabl
mr. romney: thank you. president salvo, trustees, faculty, honored guests, and parents, to the class of 2015, well done and congratulations. you parents, the years of investment and prayers have added up to this joyful achievement. hopefully you are about to experience a new american dream, which is no longer owning your own home. it is getting your kids out of the home you own. [laughter] mr. romney: you have just heard i have been awarded an honorary degree. when i think of all the times i ve in here for debates forums, and rallies, i might argue that this is an earned degree. 16 years of education has made your world a great deal bigger than the world of your childhood. it is a funny thing about little kids, they do not see much beyond what is right around them. they see their family, their school, maybe their city. but they cannot imagine different places. their vision is like a small circle, bounded by their very limited experience. your world now is breathtakingly large
book. they did not even graduate from high school. his father encouraged them if they had some interesting project, he would say stay home and do that do not go to school. he knew how bright they were. wilbur was a genius. orville was very bright and inventive mechanically, but he did not have the reach of mind that wilbur had. they loved music. they loved books. nathaniel hawthorne was orville s favorite writer. catherine loved sir walter scott. their brothers gave her a bust of sir walter scott. they were living in this little house with no running water, no indoor plumbing and they are giving a bust of a great english literary giant to their sister for her birthday present. there is a lot of hope in that. i think what i would like to get to know even more about was the sense of purpose they had. it sounds like a bad pun, but high purpose. not something ordinary a bigger idea. nothing was going to stop them. sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span s q&a.
creating gaps or we could fall below 10 operational ssbn s. to illustrate how much of a challenge the navy has accepted in this program of record, consider this. we must build the first ohio replacement ssbn s in the same amount of time it took to build the first virginia class submarine, yet the ohio replacement is 2.5 times its size. concern number four, minimizing the impact of ohio replacement on the rest of the navy. there are three ways to minimize the impact of ohio replacement on the rest of the navy, and we are pursuing all of them. first, we are making the ohio replacement as affordable as possible. the ohio replacement will have 16 tubes, not 24. we have maximized the use of previous systems. a weapon system design for the ohio, as well as virginia designed for features have been pulled into the ohio replacement. we have reached into the cost per submarine. the procurement of each ohio replacement ssbn s will cost less than 1% of one year of the dod s budget. when
whether to oppose or the support the patriot act. if you support it, (202) 748-8000. if you oppose it like senator rand paul, (202) 748-8001. you can also join in on the conversation by sending us a tweet at @cspanwj or on facebook, facebook.com/cspan. this is from the hill newspaper rand paul has the page react in the palm of his hand. the senate will hold a rare sunday evening vote. the late hour and the lack of a clean pass forward means that any senator hasn t do amount of leverage due amount of leverage, that is where rand paul comes into play. overnight, the passing of the vice president s oldest son. both biden beau biden. he was 46 years old. this message from the vice president s office. the entire family is sad beyond words, we know that beau s spirit will live on in all of us. beau biden, 46 years old. after a battle with brain cancer passing away in the washington, d.c. area. also from the boston globe and injury for secretary of state john kerry. he was