Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, just a few words of welcome today. Im tom blanton. Im director of the National Security archive at George Washington university and honored to be one of the organizers of today. This is the day, 25 years ago, that president george h. W. Bush signed the nunnlugar legislation into law. Now, being document fetishists, we scanned the bush library for the photographs of that extraordinary moment, and none exist. There was not even a signing ceremony, which gives you a sense of the kind of mixed opinion inside the Bush Administration about this Congressional Initiative in Foreign Policy. But the judgment of history is in. The wall street journal called the nunnlugar legislation one of the most prescient pieces of legislation ever enacted. And today on the National Security archive website you can see the declassified documents showing the real danger of that time, the first ever declassified list of the 3,429 soviet Strategic Nuclear warheads that
Longer be operating in New Hampshire, in the exchange over just the first two quarters of this year alone. This move will leave 11,581s individuals in the Granite State looking for new held plans. Political reports, that one arizona county is poised to become an obama care ghosttown because no one can afford to sell them. That leaves 9700 people, in all ob arizona, although, with the no anticipations. Q. Millions need relief. Heres the action thats needed. They need immediate relief from the cost of Health Insurance and a lack of options the exchanges. We should do that, by giving states more flexibility, to give individuals and their families options to purchase lower cost private health plans outside ofn obamacare and we should do that now. I intend to offer this legislation that would provide that relief. Thats only to deal with the emergency of next year, of 2017 second, we need big structural change, in order to avoid a near collapse of our nations healtht insurance market. If the
Building a community through soccer. Why these immigrant children are about to meet a very special visitor. Plus, dirty business, volkswagen forced to recall a half a million vehicles. How regulators say the cars were designed to cheat on emissions tests. U. S. Defense Officials Say russia has moved its first fighter jets to a growing military base inside syria. The u. S. Wants to know why. Is it an attempt to help fight i. S. I. L . As moscow insists or help Bashar Alassad . New talks between u. S. And Russian Military officials could answer those questions. Jamie mcintire is in the pentagon, jamie. The two countries are long Time Military allies, and moscow has provided crucial support to the Syrian Regime since the beginning of the syrian war. But what the pentagon is seeing is an order of magnitude greater and trying to figure out where it is heading. With top of the line fighter jets like these and doubling the amount of attack helicopters in syria the u. S. Had little choice but
Americans are always uncomfortable with this concept. Seats. Squirm in their dont you make your own luck . Not in war. Sometimes it is made for you. This is absolutely critical. Who among those commanders at all levels is lucky and who is unlucky . We have talked about some of the unlucky ones. John lucas. Weve talked about some of the lucky ones. Dwight eisenhower being first among them. No one luckier than him. He keeps seven lucky coins in his pocket and he takes them out and rubs them. Mark clark, the four leaf clover. His wife send it to him. He keep sitting in wall keeps it in his wallet. The answer is yes. Yes, we have to go through this. You are looking for killers. Killinge breeding divisions. Of northur of them out africa and theyre really good. First division, third division, 34th division, First Armored division. They are full of kilelrs. Killers, because that is how you win. You find men you are willing to kill other men and leaders who are willing to lead them to kill oth
What happened is we rescued the School Systems. That is not an exaggeration. We did it. What ended up happening . Not totally because of that but now we have the highest Graduation Rate of over 80 for the First Time Ever and we have a dropout rate among blacks and hispanics that has dropped over 25 since you guys started running the show. Nobody knows that. It is like a tree falling in the forest. Anybody come up to you and say lately, thank you, you did a great job on the dropout rate . Thank you, you rescued my school . We upgraded our infrastructure. The largest public works project contained within a recovery act in history. Bigger than eisenhowers interstate highway program. 15,000 new projects, 42,000 miles of new roads, and 7700 bridges. 700 Drinking Water systems upgraded. I could go on and on. Providing broadband across america and in the process, we created hundreds of thousands of jobs just doing the project and it created a virtuous cycle. When youre building the bridge in