Howard university for what is another moments occasion for the arrestee. The Founders Library is certainly an iconic building on howards campus. The clock tower represents a major symbol of the university. It always shows that everyone understands what has occurred in this building overtime. This building was originally designed with the inspiration from Independence Hall in philadelphia. That was not done by accident. He did that because that was a building the house the of america, and at the time he was designing the building, he used that as inspiration because lacks at that time, despite with the cut to shenzhen said ofthe constitution said, were not operating on an equal system. The building was designed with that in mind. It would on to become the site of many historic progress in this country, thi concluding dug the time of brown versus board of education. As a matter of fact, howards law school is often referred to as the west point of the civilized movement. We still believe
There. And, by the way, when i was there, there was a man there, former secretary of defense, National Security adviser, brzezinski, and his daughters on morning joe shes a very nice lady, and her father was in this meeting, and he looked over at rumsfeld and he said, would you tell the president to stop saying dead or alive, that we want bin laden dead or alive. Dead or alive is incendiary and kissinger was across the table and looked at rumsfeld and said, i agree, we dont want bin laden alive, okay . But anyway, so heres the situation. With iraq, the first war in iraq was an amazing situation because the muslim arabs supported the west and we went as a unified group to push saddam out of kuwait, okay . I actually went there after the war and even saw the oil fields that were still on fire. The egyptian ambassador to the United States went to the rose garden and announced the support of aour arab friends who would work with us. Talk about the second iraq war. The second iraq war was p
How does that affect ones thinking about how to measure risk . Well, if you still go back to sources and methods, which is what we most importantly have to protect, i still think there has been an overreliance on technology. Even though it is changing rapidly and we have to continue to improve how we use technology and data, you have to rely on it. There is nothing greater than good oldfashioned human intelligence gathering. It is going to be more difficult. A lot of times it is the human intelligence that enables better technologies, new technologies or discovery of what ad vversars are doing. I think the allegations regarding Angela Merkels cell phone, i can only say allegations, were a real Tipping Point in terms of compelling policy makers and members of the i. C. To think long and hard about the risk have os disclosure, the risks of relationships with allies, the risks obviously to sources of information most acutely human sources of information from disclosure. But to think in ne
Particularly now as we see conditions growing as people survive heart problems and stroke problems, we see more people with alzheimers and cancer challenges, and we see the potential for designer medicine, largely because of the great work that was done to figure out how to define and understand the human genome system in a better way. This year this committee, the Sub Committee and the full committee placed a high priority on this research, and we have planned for and have a bill that includes 2 billion of extra money for that research, an increase of about 7 over current years spending, over the past decade, with not much new money going into nih, the purchasing power at nih has decreased by about 22 , and we hope to see that reverse if we are successful with what we are trying to do to provide the increase that we are looking at here. These are clearly difficult budgetary times and i am sure we could spend a lot of the time in the hearing talking about how there should be money for
Foundation and of course the 2014 George Clooney film. I should add monuments women, togethers. Ing they are straight celebrated for the role they played in wartime. Absent from this story of individual heroism is any analysis and assessment of the way that culture and knowledge mattered in world war ii. Winning the war became a lion upon the accumulation of included and commitment for the protection of culture. How the objectives of the American Government, the military and cultural institutions intertwined. In practices and policies this endeavor shifted with the fortunes of war. They had long term effects. Effortsdiminishing the of any individuals involved, i aim to address these larger historical issues. In addition, my work shifts from is focus on art, which typically unique and rare in terms of Cultural Heritage to print culture. Of books and texts that serves many purposes. We will see and allied mission preserve monument to collections. Most was stolen from jewish institutions