Ascendant. Thanks so much. Thank you. Thanks for having me. Tonights program is a presentation of the guggenheimlehrman prize in military history, a 50,000 prize jointly administered by the Harry Frank Guggenheim foundation and the New York Historical society. It is thanks to the leadership of our great trustee, the lincoln and financial history scholar louis hillerman, that weve join with the Harry Frank Guggenheim foundation this year in trying to engage Greater Public discourse in wartime studies your i want to acknowledge mr. Lettermans vision of importance of understanding military history for all educated citizens and his work on have of our Great Institution and expanding intellectual endeavors. Thank you so much. [applause] i also want to note of encouragement and support of our extraordinary board share. In her philanthropic role, am has seen and understood vividly how the study of the steps to work, the conduct of military campaigns and diplomatic responses to work and play a
Tonight at the Kansas City Public Library is really honored to have the author of three of the best american biographies of the last 20 or 30 years to kind of collect important that t t. J. Stiles has given us of the mid19th century. First his book about jesse james which he helped us understand fictional creation of the legends, elegant initial credit by the kansas city star. That would of course never happened today. [laughter] its about the civil war of course but its also about a Great American theatrical tradition, decoration of celebrities in public life. That would never happen again today. He has such great moments, narrative moments. Jesse james robbing a train near saint louis and issuing what in essence is the First Press Release by a bank robber. May be the First Press Release, bank robber and railroad robber. He makes you understand the dynamics. One of the three books i think that are necessary to understand what happened in our part of the world and also what created the
1948. Coming up next leaders of the , u. S. House and senate present the congressional gold medal to world war ii members of of the Civil Air Patrol in recognition for their military service. This 40minute event took place in the u. S. Capitol visitor center. Ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the United States house of representatives, the honorable john a. Boehner. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon and welcome to the United States capitol. Thank you for being here to continue a great tradition, one that dates back to before our country was even a country. The congressional gold medal represents the highest expression of the peoples appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions. The first recipient was general George Washington in march of 1776. Pursuant to set a bill 309, we will present a gold medal to the members of the Civil Air Patrol. The Civil Air Patrol was organized six days before the bombing of pearl harbor. Its members flew for the 4 24 mill
Could build for the cost of one of our carriers. Its an interesting statistic, but those missiles are kind of useless without satellite constellations, without isr ground isr status, without an extensive networking system connecting these nodes, without operation centers. There is a certain amount of cost that goes into the delivering of that weapon that gets forgotten about when we do that math. First class hannah nobel. This is a question for dr. Hendricks. You spoke about a submerged arsenal, but if the carriers were to be mixed, what do you propose would replace them, and how would their mission be fulfilled in their absence . So were getting ready to try to field the ohio class replacement. Its coming in with with an estimate of about 6. 6 billion a copy with some estimates up around 7. 2. The original or the four ssgns we have are actually the first four of the original ohio class. Due to treaty limitations, we had to repurpose, so we took them out of service as submarines and we
Honorable john a boehner. Welcome to the United States capitol. Thank you for being here to continue a great tradition, one that dates back to before our country was even a country. The congressional gold medal represents the highest expression of the peoples appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions. The first recipient was general george washington. Pursuant to set a bill 309 we will present a gold member deaf gold medal to the members of the Civil Air Patrol. The Civil Air Patrol was organized six days before the bombing of pearl harbor. Members flew for the 4 million miles on Coastal Patrol. They summon help for ships and survivors in distress. They spotted any submarines, dropped bombs dropped depth charges, some 64 americans died during these operations. Those who have lived have quite the stories to tell. Many of them were with us today. Welcome these members to our capital. [applause] the presentation of the colors but United States armed force guard. And a