Its may 29, 2014. Im in florida. What is your name . My name is harold w. Berkman. Harold, when were you born and where were you born . I was born on february 22, 1926 in brooklyn, new york. I have been a resident of florida since 1975. Im 88 years old. In order to accurately trace my military odyssey, i have drawn from four sources. One, my memory. Two, my discharge papers. Three, letters that i sent to my parents when i was in europe. And fortunately, my mother had saved my letters. And four, regimental and battalion history of the 317th regiment and second battalion that had been declassified. A neighbor of mine who was an expert in terms of accessing the internet did the research for me. Lets back up for a minute, please, harold. Sure. You said you were born in brooklyn, new york . Yeah. Were you raised and did you grow up in brooklyn some. The first 11 years of my life i spent in brooklyn. Then my father retired and we moved up to a small town in Sullivan County called monticello.
Small rural town in oregon and i just ponder how in your professional career, youre traveling the world and living in a different environment completely but you have reported on World Affairs from all kinds of different reactions and some of the worst tragedies in the planet but you chose to focus on a small town in oregon, why . We were running around and covering mandatory crises and we would go back to my beloved hometown where my mom is still on the family farm and we saw humanitarian crisis unfolding there. A quarter of the kids who were on my old Number Six School bus were on drugs and alcohol and suicide and carol and i tried to process that in the kids who got on the bus right after me where the kids and their sisters and smart talented kids, farland died of drug and alcohol abuse, zealand died in a house fire when he was drunk and farland blew himself up cooking meth and regina died from hepatitis from drug use. For a while we wondered is this something about yamhill, we reali
Times right you as a koran a koran a virus doubter what are you doubting. Right and im not doubting anything that im doubting the New York Times got its facts correct because from the beginning i what ive been saying is dont let the press panic you the New York Times for instance has been continuing to put the Imperial College of londons doomsday scenarios on their front page until well into last week when as a result of what ive been advocating follow dr fatties advice follow the c. D. C. That vice we will be fine it will be nothing like the doomsday scenarios that theyre painting now we are doing what we need to do we are following dr found shape and those ridiculous estimates are being proven to be wrong and based on false assumptions so i was just saying look the panic is going to be worse than the condition and now youve got the president saying something similar the treatment could be worse than the disease again i was just trying to get people to Pay Attention to the risk reward
You think the president over and over doing what true what are they over doing. Well its like i said that there was that one empty logic study that came out of the Imperial College of london which d predicted you know it was a doomsday prediction and that was on the front page of newspapers that was on the lips of every cable News Reporter and it was based on faulty assumptions it was based on us doing nothing in response to this virus which of course was not going to be how we would respond and yet people kept pushing that as a narrative of what we what is necessarily going to happen now nothing like that has happened we have taken aggressive actions we are you know the world is responding very diligently to this and i again and for instance say you know what is the press doing calling me a corona denier for saying listen to the c. D. C. Listen to dr found you dont listen to newspapers that idea how could that possibly be denying anything other than listen to the professionals that kn
Ladies and gentle men, welcome to the Nixon Library and welcome to this beautiful replica of the east room. I am Christopher Nixon cox, board member here at the Nixon Foundation as well as the grandson of the 37th president , Richard Nixon. [applause] it is really my honor and pleasure to have you here at the library today. I am so happy to welcome you to the library. I see a lot of new faces in the crowd today which makes me really excited and i see young faces and the crowd which means we have a lot of young conservatives. [cheering and applause] that is great to see and i really encourage all of you after the event today to walk around the library and it is one of my Favorite Places for obvious reasons but one of my Favorite Places in the world and i think the birth place is beautiful and we just have redone a lot of the exhibits in the library so a lot of new stuff to see and of course if you come back you can visit the archives and do research into my grandfathers presidency. Ther