no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows the great enthusiasm, the greek devotions, who spends himself a worthy cause. and to have the worst if he fails, at least he fails enduring greatness of his way shall never be with those cold and timid souls who do not know victory or defeat. each of you graduating today is about to enter an arena. for some, including those who have served in the rotc program, it may be arguably the most unforgiving arena, helping to fight our nation s wars as leaders of our most precious resources sons and daughters in uniform. you should know that we look forward to our leadership of men and women as they undertake critical missions. or, it might be in our nation s intelligence community as one of our creative science and technology officers, all in one way or another at the pointy end of the spear, fighting against terrorism. but the arena is big and the needs are many. those of you who will
what you re trying to protect is something that would go against the interests of our country. that s what we need to be able to protect. if sudan vote to do something or blocks us from doing something that we re interested in doing, and our other avenues of recourse for that. but if you re dealing with the oceans and dealing with this question of loyalty send other things, the fact that we would preserve the right to protect our interest, i think what the senator and others have race, they don t want money going to dictators. they don t want money going to bad actor countries. we can block that. we can block that until the cows come home. and so i think we can be protected. again, we will go into that and while the veto word is not used, also not used in the constitution of the united states but no one doubts the president has it. we have the ability to do it to the language that is there. that will become a bit mor
republican governors to the president s education policy is. accept up this question for you this morning. who do you trust more on education in this country, the president or the likely gop and challenger, a former massachusetts governor? lots of papers on this question today. republicans, and independents, call on your respective phone lines. and we have a fourth line for parents and teachers. 202-628-0184. and there are several other ways to weigh in this morning. via twitter. there s also facebook. and regular e-mail. we look for to hearing from you. here s one of the stories by paul west of the tribune s washington bureau. it s published in the baltimore sun today. he says targeting an issue popular with women that the candidates made a speech. here s a little bit from mitt romney and education. when the president took office, he faced a jobs crisis. it has barely improved. the face the spending crisis. he has made that worst. and defaced and education crisis. and
therefore, if they repeat the allegations they made to the newspaper, presumably you will find out whether they are credible or not an report to us and to the public, as your investigation goes on. director sullivan, let me ask you, with respect to your own investigation thus far and the individuals alleged to have behaved improperly, where they asked whether they had engaged in similar conduct on other occasions? yes, sir they were. and what was there and to? their answer they had not. had not. just for the record, were they under oath when they were interrogated? i believe they all gave a signed oath to that but i will have to get back to you on that, i m not sure if they were under oath. i appreciate that. they all were offered the opportunity to take a polygraph test, and it would be of interest to me whether, during the test they were also asked whether they ve ever been been involved in similar beha
around you and not think about where everyone has been but where they are going. the guy in front of you could win an academy award sunday. the girl behind you could be a future president of the united states, or, even, better than that, the mayor of new york city. the guy sitting to your right could be a future nobel laureate. ok, maybe not the guy to your right, but certainly the one to your left. memorial day weekend, commencement speeches, sharing their thoughts with graduating classes of 2012, saturday through tuesday at noon and 10:00 p.m. eastern. the head of the secret service apologized today for the incident involving agents and prostitutes in colombia, but mark sullivan disputed reports this was more than isolated incident. he testified for more than two hours. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] the hearing will come to order. good morning, and thanks to those who are here, particularly director mark sullivan of the united states secret