Ten admirals and the voyage of character, which was published late last year. Admiral james stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So
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Watch washington journal on friday morning. Join the discussion. Were pleased to welcome everybody to our douglas and Sarah Allison auditorium this afternoon. Those on he heritage. Org web site as welles in the future on cspan booktv. For those inhouse we ask that courtesy to see that our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off. And of course those watches online are welcome to send questions or comments at any time, simply emails seger heritage. Org. Hosting our program and welcoming our special guest is genevieve wood. Serves as the Senior Communications adviser and senior contributor the daily signal, heritages multimedia news organization. Genevieve . [applause] good afternoon. Youre in for a treat. The speaker today doesnt need a huge introduction, brian is a man that spends six hours a day on the air wafers. See him probably three hers in morning from 6 to 9 00 a. M. On fox friends. The at the time tweeted out a nice shoutout to foxber friends and says youre doing a great