Where a lot of and he wasnt necessarily pro, nor was billyson, by the way bill dyson, who told me he didnt know why we were in vietnam, but they were very much against the antipatriotism. Where am i on questions, answering [laughter] we have time for one more. Okay, one more. I guess i just wanted to say i think its important to remember that it took very, very little to provoke the fbi. I was with a tax resistor. I mean, i was just a nobody, but i decided i would not pay my telephone tax. So i closed my bank accounts, and i wrote a letter to the, you know, telephone company, the irs every month and why did you do that . Because the telephone tax had been approved specifically to fund the war. Okay. And, you know, i was a woman. My boyfriend was a conscientious objector, i felt there wasnt quite so much that a woman could do. But that provoked visits from the fbi. I mean that tiny little thing from a nobody had my, meant that my landlord was visited, you know, i was visited, and my fat
Besides the steadying have to do on the plane. Here delg. Good job were early. Okay. Thanks very much for that very gracious introduction. As you know, im always delighted to have a chance to talk about my new book here at my local bookstore. Because i live in summerville for half the year. Once it starts to snow, i go south to new orleans where my wifes family comes from, and they have very good book shops there but not quite as good as this one. So im going to talk today about fdr and the sort of thought behind what im going to say is the, the notion that, the rather extraordinary thought that Winston Churchill very nearly lost us world war ii. Last weekend, together with ike williams here also a local resident, i was in richmond, virginia. And the city, as you probably know, is full of memorials and statues relating to the civil war. And here we are again. Not just the civil war, but a very uncivil war. A president ial election, an election in which the candidates have indulged in e
Are we going to see the clinton biography now . Ight we o tonight we are glad to have himh here for commanderinchief, anf second volume of this at the art trilogy. [applause] thanks very much for that gracious introduction. As you know im always delighted to be able to talk about my new book here. I was told i didnt even have tm lean close to the microphone. At . It is not working at all . The yearearlier period banks, very much for that very gracious introduction. Im alw as you know, im always delighted to have a chance to talk about my new book here at my local bookstore because i live in somerville for half the year and went it starts to know i go south to new orleans where my wifes family comes from and they have very good bookshops there, that night quite as good as this one. So im going to talk today about fdr and the sword of thought behind what im going to say is the notion, the rather extraordinary side of Winston Churchill very nearly lost us world war ii good last weekend to
The real challenge is how do you balance this environment and not lose that edge or lose that equipment. And the air force mission is very unique. Within 72 hours the Air National Guard unit can deploy and they have to be ready to deploy. This is my good friend here from the interNational Guard. We have these tankers on alert right now that if something happens over the United States there are pilots and jets. And that mission of the air force is unique. It takes more get up and going. The air force does a great thing and we have a great partnership. On the army message and transmission, depending on what skills that you need, if you need support personnel in my branch, for example, if you need engineers. Most of our engineers have some civilian backgrounds. The wyoming guard came in and i think that we had 23 combinations and pulling people off the side of the mountain and went back later, which you probably didnt see on the news, after four states rolled in with National Guard and th
Objectivity. Welcome the like to cspan and public radio audiences. Follow the action on twitter npclunch. Introduce our to head table. I would ask each to stand briefly as your name is announced. From your right, kevin, a Committee Member for the vietnam war commemoration. Marcus, a documentary film maker. Washingtonppe, a correspondent for ganett. Secretary of the the air force and a member of the National Press club. Thomas burr, senior washington correspondent for the Salt Lake City tribune and the chairman of board of the National Press club. Jim michaels, military reporter for usa today. Bill ingram, director of the Army National guard. The podium. R donna, a reporter for usa today. The organizer of todays lunch on the Speakers Committee and the 2009 president of the National Press club. Skipping over the speaker momentarily, rachel oswald, a at National Journal news wire. Brigadier general james whitham. Mary french of army magazine. Chief Master Sergeant mitch enlisted advisor t