That describes the ships humanitarian mission. And at 10 30, the screaming eagles in vietnam, a u. S. Army big picture film episode, documenting the 101st airbor airbornedivision. That is tonight on American History tv on cspan3. Earlier this year, nprs prairie home companion host announced that he would leave the show by 2016, handing the mic to chris theeley, he spoke at the National Press club in may. Delivering a speech, titled 15 things that need to change right away. Applause. Thank you very much, john, you were much too kind. Dont make that mistake again. You will be held to account for it honored to be here. I went to the lengths of writing out a speech. Which i never do. Reminds me too much of being in college. 15 things that need to change right away is the revised title of my speech. I came up with this because i was thinking about another speech that i gave, which also was a great honor, i was invited to give the address at princeton university, i was up in princeton earlie
Poison of american soldiers. Anybody have any questions about the convenient terrorist . I have a question. So where i met in the store by that is they have the wrong person, the wrong abu zubaydah, the wrong one. , correct . There were two of them you mention, theres a parallel but they are holding them, the other speedy recaptured sea power the history and geopolitics of the worlds oceans in march 28, 2002. My coauthor, the cia officer come was a person who actually captured abu zubaydah. Before he was captured there was a bartleby put out by the rand corporation, and it was also put out by them as well as all a bit of information from the cia and fbi. They came up with this biography that he was born in saudi arabia. He was raised in the gaza strip in palestine. He was a young age in his teens he joined the egyptian Islamic Jihad movement, and then from there moved to pakistan and joined alqaeda and was thirdhighest Ranking Member in alqaeda. He ran a Training Camp in afghanistan. C
The state and local Law Enforcement officers you work with, did you think they were capable of understanding the complexities of Immigration Law . No, that someone on the other side of the aisle has that view. I just i dont know that. Well, they do. Let me ask you this. Prosecutorial discretion. Does it does it apply in all categories of law . You know, some laws require you to do Something Like register for Selective Service. Some forbid you from doing Something Like possession of narcotics. And some laws, for instance, congress could make you issue us a report. Are you able to exercise prosecutorial discretion in all three of those categories of law . Well, i certainly can with respect to the first one. Right. I know you would be on my case if i did with respect to the third one. So i would say no. And i cant remember what your second one was. The laws that force you to do something, register for Selective Service . I mean, i dont enforce that law, registration for Selective Service.
Anything can be anywhere, cadillac jack. Another aspect of mark twain that i got into more recently is miniature books. All of the books in this cabinet have some tiein with mark twain. Theyre either, they were either a story about him or one of the stories that he wrote that was translated or, im sorry, not translated, but miniaturized. So this is a story to he wrote about the civil war called luck. And these are, these have bookplates in them from previous ownerrings. Some of this is owners. Some of these are famous people from the miniature book world. And the artwork is all miniaturized. And then its just illustrated and bound. Then this is an interesting one here, the little teenyweeny book. I dont know if i can get it out of there. Do you want to see that . Because im not sure, i think its by barbara rehal, and shes noted for doing the really smallest miniature books. And she does all this artwork by hand. And its actually got printing in it. You have to read it with a, like a 20