Captioning performed by vitac captioning performed by vitac. You and i, my fellow sense, need to be strong in our faith that all nations under god will reach the goal of peace with justice. We pray that peoples of all faith, all races, all nations may have their great human needs satisfied and that the scourge of poverty, disease and ignorance will be made disappear from the earth, that in the goodness of time, all people will come to live together in a peace guaranteed by the finding force of Mutual Respect and love. Evening, and welcome to the dedication ceremony for dwight d. Eisenhower memorial. For everyones health and safety, please exercise safe social distancing and ensure that your masks remain on when you are not eating or drinking. To begin our program, we are honored to be joined by the soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division as they were with general eisenhower the night before dday to present tonights colors. They will be accompanied by the president s own u. S. Marine ba
Theyre fantastic bookstores, and we are grateful for them as always. Former Governor Haley barbour needs no introduction. You are familiar with his many years of work in the Nations Capital and he gets around on the world stage. I was talking several years ago to richard ford, who at the time was doing teaching at Trinity College in dublin and he was wandering around the campus kind of exploring his new setting and the opened the door to lecture hall and there is Haley Barbour lecturing on International Politics right there in ireland. A governor with many talents, what may have been the most significant chapter from mississippi was the politicians and Public Servants began ten years ago this week as the wind began gathering in to what would be the monster storm of Hurricane Katrina. Overs the next year, the governor, his wife, marsha, all over mississippi and the gulf coast worked tirelessly in uncharted territory so in this new book americas great storm leading through Hurricane Katr
and we were deeply concerned about it and saw an opportunity and we seized it. and i make no apologies for that. welcome to the journal ed i m paul gigot. that was president obama defending the swap for bowe bergdahl for five guantanamo detain niece. it started as a celebration last week in the rose garden and quickly turned into the latest political fiasco with lawmakers from both sides criticizing the decision and the white house insisting on damage control once again. joining the panel, the potomac columnist kim straszle, james freeman, and america s columnist, mary annesthesia. it is pretty obvious that the president miscalculated this at the very least, why do you think they did that? it s remarkable. i think they thought they were going to sweep the administration health official scandal from the front page and dlam foreign victory. so even though senior officials had to know about sergeant bergdahl s past, they sent susan rice out to talk about him serving with ho