Rotc program from the university of texas was 1981. Hes been serving his country long and very well, despite his youthful appearance, hes been at it for quite a while. We look forward to a rich conversation today at the end of which well be able to handle some of your questions if you wish to email us. I will transmit some of those questions to the general. But, first, were going to hear from him with some opening thoughts on the state of the guard and on its health and admiral and much appreciated help in responding to the covid crisis in the United States. That will not be our only topic. This will be an opportunity to think more broadly about the guard and its role in the nations force at this very difficult moment in our history with the return of Great Power Competition and other challenges around the globe. General, thank you again for joining us. Without further adieu, over to you, my friend. Michael, thank you. Thank you to brookings for having me on today to talk about the Nat
Appears we have more leverage to russia to talk seriously about syria. Are we going to try to do that and a what are the russians saying . Appreciate that question. [ applause ] thank you. Well, thank you very much. Please very nice. Thank you. Big day. My pleasure to welcome you all to the beautiful, great white house and to host this magnificent showcase of americas incredible Small Businesses. I just got, witnessed some beautiful product. Today we received outstanding news from all over our country, really. The United States economy has added almost 5 million new jobs in the month of june. Thats shattering all expectations, and shattering all records, historic records. The history of our country weve never added anywhere near that, and last month we also broke the record, but now we shattered it. Much higher than even last month. This is the largest monthly jobs gain in history. We added 2. 1 million leisure and hospitality jobs. 740,000 retail jobs. 568,000 education jobs and healt
Cspan why wouldnt the government at that time have protections for him . Guest why wouldnt the government have a pension. There were for pensions for nobody else and not a penchant for the present in effect he had very little money. He had to borrow money quite secretly which dean acheson cosigned to pay for the move back home. This is not wellknown and it doesnt mean he didnt have any money. He did have money but he needed cash to cover all the expenses coming out of the white house. When he got home in order to provide himself some income he undertook the writing of his autobiography, his memoirs which no other president had ever done except for herbert hoover. Hoovers time in office was much briefer than was trumans presidency and covered far more tumultuous history so to undertake the 2volume memoir was a very major ambitious task and then he build his library. There had been a previous president ial library, Franklin Roosevelt library at hyde park established after roosevelt had d
Historic mission. As all of you know we were founded by 1961 by first Lady Jacqueline kennedy who had a vision in such a young age as first lady to create an organization to give nonprofit, nonpartisan support to the work of maintaining the Museum Standard of the white house but also an Education Mission to teach and to tell stories of the white house and history going back to 1792 when George Washington who were talking about today actually selected that piece of land and hired the young irish architect james hogan to build the white house. Well, creating educational materials and content is a core part of our mission and thats what we do every day through the wonderful books that we publish, our programs that we host at the Decatur House and around the country and online social media content and website content and this is an example of that. We are doing more and more of this during this time when we are all at home looking for interesting things to do. I would encourage you to chec
My name is travis cohen, im a bookseller and in charge of the abamended to quick housekeeping and we can jump right in. Im gonna take a quick second to remind everyone to please silence your cell phone. We are also recording video and audio in todays talk. Also when it comes time for the q a portion we have a standing microphone right here, at the end of the aisle we ask that you speak clearly into it and keep your question to a question. Following everything we have all the books on sale behind the Cash Register at the front of the store so if you want to get those and come back will be more than happy to sign them. Then we ask that you keep your chairs in place. We have as many of you probably know we host a lot of events this year or every year, we need help keeping track of those we have more info desk pand check our website we updat that all the time its the best way to get that information. Campers that enough. Today we have the pleasure of hosting Matthew Algeo, an awardwinning