Im the deputy executive director of the Eisenhower Memorial Commission. And were here tonight in washington, d. C. At the northwest corner of the new president ial memorial for dwight d. Eisenhower. But this story starts about a thousand miles west of washington, d. C. In abilene, kansas. And while eisenhower was born in dennison, texas, his family moved back to abilene, kansas when he was just a toddler. He stayed there through high school. I want to direct your view over here to this speech that is inscribed on this wall in the northwest corner of the memorial. When world war ii ended eisenhower came home to abilene and was given a heroes welcome and in a very humble way he started talking about not that he was a hero but what he dreamed of doing when he was a young boy in abilene, kansas. And ended with the proudest thing that i can claim is that i am from abilene. I come here first to thank you, to say the proudest thing i can claim is that i am from abilene. That first paragraph o
Hes the iranian studies director from the university and serves as the iran democracy codirector at Stanford University Hoover Institution. Thank you for joining us. What is the best way to view iran after the last couple of days . I think iran as having a second person in the country for structure. The leadership and iran is strengthened by the show of emotion. Grief five people of iran. So the people in the United States and syria and lebanon might have been the instigator of a lot of mayhem. Democrats fighting this industry a few days before this, two months before this month that would be the biggest demonstration against this regime ever in the 40 years the regime how do terrible thousands of people. They felt they threatened, they feel that strengthened to the punch. The demonstrations welcome back because the results rather in the situation. Does that mean for the u. S. . What i think it means is that the decision for money, natural pecans offenses but aside from the ramificatio
A race against the effects of Climate Change. Could have a company on the news are the battle against drug crime in mexico has taken a deadly turn for the worst the countrys just not stopped the most homicides in a single day since records began in 197127 now many are questioning the president s strategy of hugs not bullets in tackling Drug Cartel Violence as alan fischer reports now from mexico city. Itll take a while to repair the damage to your own city hall the memories of what happened here will last much longer. Saturday afternoon a convoy of vehicles covered in the initials of a local drug cartel c. D. N. Drove into town and began firing this the authorities believe was sending a message to the Regional Government to. Security forces surrounded the turn 60 kilometers south of the texas border by the time the gun battles ended on sunday 22 were dead 16 gunman 4 Police Officers 2 civilians pictures of local politicians were riddled with bullets locals had to literally run for the
Continents and cleanup operations underway in the philippines as authorities work to get a clear picture of typhoon come aris impact. The battle against drug crime in mexico has taken a deadly turn for the worse the countrys just not stopped the most homicides in a single day since records began in 1997 after 127 people were killed on december 1st many are questioning the president s strategy of hugs more bullets and tackling Drug Cartel Violence alan fischer reports from mexico city. It will take a while to repair the damage to be in your own city hall the memories of what happened here will last much longer to a saturday afternoon a convoy of vehicles called. In the initials of a local drug cartel c d n drove into town and began fighting this the authorities believe was sending a message to the Regional Government to. Security forces surrounded the turn 60 kilometers south of the texas border by the time the gun battles ended on sunday 22 were dead 16 gunman 4 Police Officers 2 civil
A pipeline that will deliver russian gas from siberia to cities across china. Thank you very much for joining us Security Forces have stopped an angry crowd from marching towards a u. N. Base in the east of the democratic republic of congo they were heading to the peacekeeping compound near the airport in beni one of 2 bases in that city at least 2 people have been killed demonstrators have been targeting u. N. Peacekeepers there for more than a week now saying they offer to protect civilians from attacks by rebel groups there speak to aljazeera producer. Who is in beni and joins us on the lie i understand the Congolese Army has just held a News Conference what have they said. To. Rule them in. That. Was. Exactly what happened. I dont were going to leave it there because were having a hard time understanding you the phone line unfortunately is not very good with many. There are produced conny updating us on the situation in beni where protesters tried to storm a u. N. Compound in that