Thank you for hiring me. I appreciate that. Every two weeks. I appreciated pretty. Im also the samuels Senior Historian at the museum which is perhaps my proudest post. Welcome to another installment of our author series will we bring you the best world war ii literature and the men and women who create it. People tonight author, the truly needs no introduction, we carry out that tradition. Any chance are there any veterans in the audience tonight. There we go. [applause]. I knew there were some. [applause]. To say that we thank you for your services is an understatement of the century. Any veterans of any other service or any other era, please stand and be recognized if you would. [applause]. Wonderful. And again, thanks to all of you for your support and service. We have an Incredible Group of friends with us here tonight in the museum. Cspan, the good folks from cspan are here filming the event printed that is always wonderful that wanted to be under your best behavior. Because cspa
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Recounts his time at the secretary of the Veterans Affairs department for the Trump Administration. Hes interviewed by jeremy butler. After words is a weekly interview program. They are also available to listen to as podcasts. Thank you for being with us today the v. A. Is an important subject to talk about one area of our government that dont necessarily know one of the details. Those that dont understand the breadth and the depth. Certainly about your book and your time of the administration. I would love to begin talking about the v. A. You are very successful with a civilian career making the transition from the civilian world into the government world can be jarring what would you to take up the mantle of work . During my twenties i didnt have a chance to serve in the way that you did. I spent my time in medical institutions building my medical training and one of the real regrets that i would have but later on in my career i was the ceo of the hospital and i had the opportunity t
A term we have heard talking about essential frontline federal employees. Give us an idea of who some of those employees are. What are their jobs . Guest some of those employees would be tsa. Some of our Veterans Administration workers. Would be some of our prison workers. Some of those would be essential personnel. Guest what are you hearing from those frontline workers during the crisis . Guest more than anything is , protection. They feel that they are inadequately protected. While they have to and they want to do their job, just want to be protected. Our main concern is making sure that those employees that we represent are protected. Host do you have any idea of how many of your members have contracted covid19 . Guest i dont really have an accurate number. I do know that within the tsa is about 170 so far and in the Veterans Administration, i think the last count i had was about 189. Can i give you a little background of why we feel so strongly about the fact we need the protectio