Firing surfacetosurface missile statue. Berry lowtech threat essentially very. What can you do about it . Well, what you do about it over all is enough multimission platforms and you trained your sailors, your marines to be flexible and adaptable because you dont know what the threat is going to come at you. You dont know what the next thing coming over the horizon is going to be. But when those missiles were fired at the ships, they took out some appropriate action. Nothing hit the ships, no one was harmed on the ship. And to show you the value of naval presence and being everywhere at the right time, the right place, but all the time, is that instead of saying youre in big trouble two or three weeks from now when we can get somebody here to shoot at you, we had somebody there. We had a tomahawk shooter right there that, when the decision was made to retaliate, to show people that if you attack us, you do so at your peril. We were there. We could do it instantly. I think its interesti
Im harry fortanado drk tore of public affairs. I want to thank you for joining us in the latest it ration of the hail to the chiefs lecture series copresented by our partners a the trueman Library Institute the Foundation Arm of the harry s. Truman Library Museum and independence. Here at the library, we just love to do programs commemorating anniversaries. And such as the case tonight, 40 years ago. Well technically, 39 years and 363 days ago. But work with me on this gerald ford became the first and to date the only unelected president of the United States. An outcome that would have been beyond conception just two years earlier when Richard Nixon was cruising to his landslide victory over george mcgovern. To tell us more about that in the administration that ensued weve brought back for the third time dr. John robert green. But you can call him bob. Who among many claims to fame ranks as the first historian to perform a serious scholarly study on the administration. The First Editio
First historian to perform the first scholarly study of the fort administration. He First Edition of his book was published some 19 years ago by the University Press of kansas. It is still in print. Report, on its fourth printing. Of course, being a pioneer has its disadvantages. In the earlyhat days, he was often asked if his interest in the ford presidency was a function of the fact that all the more interesting president s had been taken. Thoughts of this nature do a disservice to bobs scholarship. While ford is generally remembered as a genuinely honest man who did his best to heal the country after the travails of watergate, bob argues theres a lot more to the 38th president than a likable guy who performed a credible job as a national. Aretaker locally, we should also recall that he was here in kansas city in 1976. Somehow, i have a feeling well be commemorating that in about tito years. The librarys good friend, who was in the audience tonight with a young city then councilmembe
Hyannisport with the kennedy compound, it seemed like a summer camp. Compared to what other president s have done on their vacations, what sort of activities did john f. Kennedy do . Time magazine in august, 1962, said that not since the days of Theodore Roosevelt had the nation witnessed what the magazine called such a hard pounding, muscleaching round of activities. And hyannisport, which was besieged by tourists, the president , his children, his nephews, his nieces scrambled on the lawn, splashed in the water. At times, when i read about it, i thought it resembled the olympics. Time described it this way sitting down is somehow considered that form. Touch football has rest periods. Between tennis, swimming, water skiing, sailing and dragging. Dragging as an attempt to avoid drowning while being towed by a life preserver tied to the president s schooner. Look magazine put a picture of the president on a golf cart loaded down with nieces and nephews. What did this image say . It cert
Hello, and welcome to the kansas city public library. I am director of public affairs. I want to thank you in joining us for the latest iteration of our hail to the chief lecture series, cochaired by our partners at the Truman Library institute, the Foundation Arm of the Harry S Truman president ial library and museum in independence. As many of you know, we here at the library just love to do programs commemorating anniversaries, and such is the case tonight. 40 years ago, well, technically, 39 years and 363 days ago, but work with me on this, gerald ford became the first, and to date the only, unelected president of the United States. At outcome that would have been beyond conception just two years earlier, when Richard Nixon was cruising to his landslide victory over george mcgovern. To tell us more about that and the administration that ensued, we have brought back for the third time dr. John robert greene, but you can call him bob, who, among many claims to fame, ranks as the firs