That was the first time we started seeing the replay of the second tower getting hit. The motion of the airplane hitting the tower and the explosion burned into everyones memory, that is the first time the president saw it. Right after that moment when dan bartlett alerted everyone in the room, he said look at the tv and we saw it. Everyone was stunned in silence because we had never seen it. We heard what had happened. To me, that is the critical moment the president visually could connect what really happened. Just that second later, the president turned to see that image for the first time. You can watch this and other American History programs on our website where all our video is archived. Cspan. Org history. With a series of north Korean Missile tests in the news recently, we decided to look back at the development of missiles and bombers in the United States. America, the air force missile mission. Appearing in his Beverly Hills home library, Academy Awardwinning actor and world
World war ii service in a b24 liberator, was promoted in 1959 to Brigadier General in the u. S. Air force reserve, and flew a 1966 vietnam bombing mission. This is about 24 minutes. James good evening. I hope you will excuse all of this, but i have been taking time off from my job to look into something that concerns all of us. That seems to be pretty well confused. What i mean is missiles, highperformance airplanes. Why do we have so many . Why do we need both . Where are we going with all of this . A fellow asked me that question in london not so long ago. It is not a simple question, and i couldnt get him a simple answer. That is the reason for all this homework. It seems to me that weve got to understand just what we are building, how each of these missiles and airplanes add to our deterrence strengths, and why we have developed them and what they do. I would like to tell you what i wish i had been able to tell that fellow in london not very long ago. Some of you may remember i was
The key Transportation Technologies of the 20th century. The railroad was the Major Technology of the 90th the 19thcentury. The Steam Locomotive was thought of as the equivalent of an . Today. Astronaut today. We have railroad locomotives that tell the story from the earliest days in the 1830s, right up to to early days of the the 1920s. Ric in behind me is our released example, a replica of an 1831 car used on the mohawk and hudson railroad. In itself is pretty historic now. This gives us an idea of what automotives and trains would have looked like when trains were coming on the in itself ise early 1830s. The mohawk and hudson was located in new york state, and eventually became part of the new york central, one of the largest railroads in the United States. Railroads were normally local affairs, running 15 or 20 miles between cities. Ofe had grander ambitions connecting to the mississippi river. Eventually we got to that point, but it took these systems time to coalesce to form what
Sherman tank was the most commonly used American Tank in world war ii. Up next, i rock and afghanistan think veteran nick lewis moran talks about the design and history of the m4 sherman tank. The tank was the best u. S. Tank during world war ii because of its versatility, low production cost, and reliability. Nicholas miranda is the director war intary director of america, the stakes game as 100 million players worldwide. York military Affairs Symposium hosted this 90 minute event. [applause] Nicholas Moran graduated from University College dublin and enlisted in the Irish Defense reserve forces in 1997. The United States army in 2000, and was commissioned as an army officer in 2002. He then spent one year in iraq as a tank platoon leader and a oneyear tour in afghanistan. Is also aoran graduate of the u. S. Army command and general college. He has been working at the San Francisco bays wargaming americas inhouse tanker and his historian since 2012 and has the nickname of the chieftai
Noncaffeinated. Did you want to start down here . Sure. I dont have one yet. There we go. I was wondering if you wanted to respond to commissioner clyburns statements that she doesnt believe the republican majority thinks that any services are title ii services . I have to go back and look at her analysis. I only heard the one Research Statement in full and it is quite a lengthy dissent so i want to read it in full. I think some of the things she mentioned off the top of myhead as i was taking notes seems to be very tough cases for a title ii scenario. I find that to be a very tough title ii scenario. Ive given my views on the past on our different scenarios so i have to go back and see but that doesnt necessarily mean that its one way or the other. There are title ii Services Today and treated and gone that way. Look at our rules all the time and see what needs to be modified and the classification is an important function of the commission. Okay, we will go back this way. He also sai