Toefing on their efforts combat the coronavirus pandemic. Here is the director general. Evening,orning, good good afternoon everybody, and thank you for joining this briefing. We have a very special guest we are honored to have with us. Thank you very much and good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening, wherever you are. Ago, who six months and signed an agreement to Work Together to promote health football. What weot know then know now. Emergenew virus will that would bring many parts of society to a standstill. The beautiful, beautiful game itself. Matches have stopped, but our collaboration has become even more important during this difficult time. It has given us the opportunity of working together more closely then we imagined with fifa. Football can reach millions of people, especially younger people that Public Health officials cannot. Today, it is my great pleasure , thelcome my dear brother president of fifa, to talk about our joint campaign to pass the coronavirus. Ck out thi
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Introduce our last speaker for the afternoon. He is the director of the Texas Military forces museum. And an adjunct professor of history at Austin Community college. He is an author and a contributor to essential civil war curriculum. His last work as a trilogy covering the civil war in virginia from gettysburg and includes meade and lee, which is due for publication next year. Lets give him a welcome. [applause] thank you. It is a real pleasure to be here. It is always fun to stand in a group of people that have the same passion. You dont get looked at as strangely when you talk to other people. I am going to break precedent today and have a powerpoint demonstration. I am doing that for several reasons. Pamplin spent a lot of money to put this system in. You will not have to get a new puppy at the end of my presentation. I became interested in the story of what happens in the Virginia Theater after the battle of gettysburg following a conversation i had with one of my favorite profes
Longtimlongtime no see. I am thrilled to be moderating just about the most distinguished panel anyone could assemble foreignpolicy to my extreme right, max boot, i should say he used to be to my extreme right. [laughter] only on this stage in my twoyear extreme right. Not so much anymore. He is known to all of you as a prolific writer of columns for the Washington Post in the commentator on cnn, distinguished author of biographies and books on the military, i have a personal note to add, max was my first of the wall street journal and he was the best boss i have ever had and who was a good model for me on a personal basis for that reason for many years. You will notice he will get all the easy questions today. [laughter] jim fallows, well known to all of you as a distinguished writer for the atlantic, previous incarnation he was president carters chief speechwriter for a couple of years before winning a National Book award for his book on national defense, his career has taken him all
Precipitously. Take a look at this. Just a few of the cruise passengers on the grand princess were happy to get off. Michelles grandmother busted out a move in celebration. We also caught a glimpse of the family and they gave us a wave. That was before they made it off the ship. Im a person who tends to be slightly clause trough slightly claustrophobic and i feel her pain. We cant discount the longer term effects it would have. My children were just informed they have to have two weeks off from school. So my wife are having this conversation, how are we going to do this. Were trying to team up with other families now. Now this whole story that if a been reporting on hits home for us. What are we going to do. At the same point you have the discussion about reacting or overreacting. I know doctors are saying in order to get ahead of this we need to be better safe than sorry. Im having my own internal debate. Youre not alone. California has at least 157 confirmed coronavirus cases, most o