Hundreds of photos of artwork created during world war i. Next on american artifacts we look at drawings by eight combat artists with archives Valentine Jan hodges. She has showcased the art and the stories of the artists on the archives blog, the unwritten record. When i first came to the archives i had no idea what the archives was about. So when i came here as a volunteer i was asked if i wanted to work on a conservation project for record group 120, which is the records of the combat units of the American Expeditionary forces. Since i had no frame of reference i said yes. So that got me into looking at these records that first of all i was astonished to understand that i was handling records that go back to world war i. And so that alone was very interesting and entertaining. But as we went along, one of the things that i found out in looking through the records was that the records start at the Division Level and work down to brigade level and then regiment level. And in the regim
Test. Test. Test. Test. Lets look at the americas. Were fragmented. Were splintered. Aside from nafta, theres, you name it. The pacific alliance. A lot of different things. But there isnt one americas. The crown jewel we do have is nafta. And i hope we also think about the role that our region plays as we are competing with other regions in the world. Hemisphere, go to asia. That is a reality. And it becomes an economic reality and a National Security reality. And a massive shift of wealth from the east to the west. If we could get our act together regionally and build Energy Supply chains. We have the oil. We have the gas. And this is the time when we can be doing that. And the seventh largest economy in the world. The seventh largest economy in the world. Our southern neighbor and canada will always be one of the most developed per capita income economies anywhere. The world has changed in 23 years. So the labor chapter, the environmental chapter. Look at rules of origin and think ab
The committee will come to order. Id like to welcome everyone to the this mornings hearing. Today we consider the nomination of sima vermia to serve as administrator for the centers for medicaid and mediCare Services. Welcome. Were so happy to have you here and your family as well. I appreciate your willingness to lead this key agency at this critical time. And i see that your family joined you here today to lend support, so i extend a warm welcome to all of you and to them as well. Cms is the Worlds Largest health insurer. Covering over one third of the u. S. Population through medicare and medicaid alone. It has a budget of over 1 trillion and it processes over 1. 2 billion claims a year for Services Provided to some of our nations most vulnerable citizens. Having dealt with cms extensively in your capacity as a consultant to numerous state and Medicaid Programs, you know full well the challenges the agency deals with on a daily basis. I suspect you also know that the job youve been
Grandfather. Host looking at all those childhood pictures. Adorable children that were all well behaved. Guest exactly. Host im most interested because you have managed to do in a readable length what many other authors have tried to fit into many many pages and im curious about your interest in eisenhower. How familiar were you with his record when you developed an interest in the subject . Guest i covered the pentagon for six years and had a healthy appreciation of general eisenhower, but i didnt really have an appreciation of the eisenhower presidency. I may college golfer, still golfer and i got the holy grail of golf invites down to Augustine National and i was on cloud nine and went down there and was driving down magnolia lane. Such a spectacular place and for golfers, as you know, its the place to be, so i went and and they told me you are staying in the eisenhower cabin and they couldnt believe it. I couldnt go to sleep and i poured myself a glass of wine and walked around the
Grandfather. Host looking at all those childhood pictures. Adorable children that were all well behaved. Guest exactly. Host im most interested because you have managed to do in a readable length what many other authors have tried to fit into many many pages and im curious about your interest in eisenhower. How familiar were you with his record when you developed an interest in the subject . Guest i covered the pentagon for six years and had a healthy appreciation of general eisenhower, but i didnt really have an appreciation of the eisenhower presidency. I may college golfer, still golfer and i got the holy grail of golf invites down to Augustine National and i was on cloud nine and went down there and was driving down magnolia lane. Such a spectacular place and for golfers, as you know, its the place to be, so i went and and they told me you are staying in the eisenhower cabin and they couldnt believe it. I couldnt go to sleep and i poured myself a glass of wine and walked around the