Possible. It has the room that were in now has six stradivarius violins and original scores from beethoven, hayden, no relation. And there are so many things here, and thats why i took the job. David fair yoe, youve been at this a little longer. You started the job in 2009. Do you remember why you said yes . I said no twice. When i got the first calls about it. And it took someone from the Transition Team to come to new york to talk to me about what this administration was looking for in the new archivist. And i said yes, because of the opportunity to participate in an administration that was serious about open government and transparency and thought that the National Archives had a role to play in that theme. Dr. David skorton. We were a patriotic family, and corny in this regard, and my dad said if you ever had a chance to do something nice for the country, do it. And it felt like i could participate in some small way in preserving the nations history, telling the story of it to amer
These techniques were band and it was a time when there was a fair amount of propaganda as well as antiu. S. Sentiment related to guantanamo as well as other issues. And so these are things that i think we as professionals in the National Security environment tried to take into account. And so this is a feature i think of our past. And one that we have to come to terms with. And deal with. And this agency is determined to move forward. The first part of the question. Involved with congress in 1996. Oh, yes. You know, the one thing about whether its the intelligence business or nash security or something, you can always find something that you can pull out and say, the agency said this. Or judged this or this was the conclusion at that time. Now its going to be different. A lot of times there are differences of views. It was one of the things that the wmd commission encouraged there to be, a diversity of views within the Intelligence Community so there wouldnt be single group think. The
President obama is now in east lancing, michigan, in just a few minutes hes expected to sign the new farm bill into law. Mike viqueira is in washington with more on the bill and why the president went all the way to michigan to sign it, mike . Well, there were a couple of reasons for that. Some just plain old poll licks. The chair woman hails from michigan. Michigan State University is where the president is going to be appearing. Its a variety verse agricultural community, many people dont know that. 956 billion lets just call it an even trillion, del over ten years. And it has been a long time coming. The country has been without a farm bill since last september when the last farm bill expired. But the fight had lasted much longer than that. Chief among the concerns, the reformers in the tea party felt as though too much money was being spent on food stamps. They had an enormous cut, some 10 of food stamp expenditures, that did not come anywhere close in the final product. About 1 ,
The iranians to allow a few americans, staff people, to staff the intersections in a question of engagement. There is a sub question, that says what happened in 2008 with the Bush Administration . Why didnt they ask them . This is a question about more context, but also stepping the intersection in terror on with americans. I take my advice from Yitzhak Rabin when he was Prime Minister, when he was explaining that in the early 1990s why arafats shake her hands on the lawn of the white house. As a former diplomat, and i teach diplomacy, i firmly believe we have to be talking to our adversaries and enemies, that the worst thing you can do from your own perspective, from your own national interest, is to shut yourself off. Ispite we agree the regime odious, we have to have a conversation with them, because and ia powerful regime, think the idea that the united establish iran would a consistent channel for our national interests, we do not do them a ferriter, we do ourselves a favor by hav
On soybeans and we are creating new markets and creating new opportunities through biobased manufacturing area this is a bill that will help Rural Businesses get Broadband Internet access so they can get new customers in every part of michigan and across the country and be more competitive. Bill, over the last developed ins energy development. This is a conservation bill that farmers, partner with them to protect our land and water resources. Folks may not know that the largest investment that we make in land to Water Conservation in the country is through what we call the farm bill. This is how we partner with people who own land. [applause] wonderful, new partnership for the future. A historic new agreement between agriculture and conservation conservationies compliance with Crop Insurance so we are able to use the best managementw tools, practices, and guarantees our farmers and ranchers to continue to be the great stewards of the land they are. This is a nutrition bill that makes s