Nonfiction become award from the mississippi utah letters. S and he has a book out and you can our bookstore at battlefield center. Introduce to dr. Timothy smith. [applause] i appreciate the opportunity to here. I have always heard about the time. And this is my first i heard how nice it was and im a believer now. A great place here and i appreciate the invitation to here. We will truck about the western talk about ing to vicksburg, Champion Hill. To vicksburg . Been how many to Champion Hill . Not as many. A good number. Champion hill is one of those fields and watching the news and listen to the Civil War Trust they tlefield are doing a lot of work there. The state of mississippi just several Hundred Acres to the National Park a unit of the Vicksburg National Military Park going on this at Champion Hill. We will talk about that battle the larger r, Vicksburg Campaign just a little bit. A power point either. Im a little bit old fashioned. Do have a map of Champion Hill that we will t
Protection commissioner mark morgan now on lawenforcement efforts at the southern border. From the National Press club this is about one hour. Good afternoon. Thank you all for being here to todays newsmaker interview. Today our guest . Morgan who is the acting commissioner of customs and Border Protection. It is one of the dhs agencies and it is the largest lawEnforcement Agency in the country and brings in the secondhighest amount of revenue of any Law Enforcement agency and id venture to say probably more popular than the one that brings in the most which is the irs but [laughter] thank you for being here. Of course. The acting commissioners had a long and established career in Law Enforcement, including while he was named to his present post in june of this year and prior to taking the job of actingg commissioner he has been chief of Border Patrol and has been the special agent in charge of the fbi in el paso so plenty of border experience. He has had a number of roles in Law Enfor
Captioning performed by vitac seeds that bear ill fruit. Because on january 11th, against the advice of his staff, he sends a message to his core commanders and basically says you advised me to retreat. Please publicly say so. Put it in writing. We had a conference about it. You told me about it. Put it in writing and let us stand together against the news coming from the press. But he also says something else. He says if i find that i have lost the good faith and confidence of my generals, i will retire without a murmur. And please talk to your division and brigade commanders as well and get their opinions as well. If you are a ceo and you put yourself in front of your subordinates for a referendum on your fitness for leadership, even if you win, that vote of confidence you can never command the same respect, okay . This is a capital error on the part of brag. The replies are very quickly coming. Polk is on leave. Hes got a couple of lawyers and they take a look at this and say is bra
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