sighting was reported an investigation usually results in one of the following categorizations. airborne clutter, natural atmospheric phenomenon, us government or us industry elemental programs or an adversary systems or unexplained sightings that merit more investigations. this is just shy of 90minutes . the subcommittee will come to order. without objection the chair may declare reset at anytime. i want to recognize a moment of silence for the victims of the white supremacist hate crime in buffalo newyork. the subcommittee has focused intently on that threat in open and closed hearings . this is utterly devastating to see more victims of this violence. buffalo our heart breaks for you. with that i asked my colleagues to join. we will now turn to the business of this hearing. more than 50 years ago the us government ended project blue book, an effort to catalog and understand sightings of objects in the air that could not otherwise be explained. for more than 20 years that
People start to wonder, why is it Adlai Stevenson attacking Richard Nixon for being this guy with a secret fund . And again, this may surprise you, but Adlai Stevenson had a fun. Not only did he have a fund, that he had a fund 10 times the size of Richard Nixon. Now i read the authorized biography and how she used this fund on really important things like one of his sons birthday parties. Does that sound a little strange to you read this ban will be using a trust fund for his sons birthday party. Richard nixon had to explain in detail that this fund wasnt meant for anything. Either way, 18,235. He couldnt even write a check on the fund. It was in somebody elses name. The only thing that Richard Nixon could do was send invoices and to dana smith who was the trustee and dana smith wrote the check. Again, i know this may be somewhat surprising, but none of them added to nixons salary. None of them helped nixon have been made. None of them brought close for Richard Nixon for neiman marcus.
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The march of progress westward. Doing the smallpox book i come across this Huge Population of out in the middle of north dakota. At the time of the revolution, population hub bigger than charleston, south carolina, the fourth biggest city on the atlantic seaboard and i just said holy cow, what if we told this story of america from the center of the continent . What if we called this is American History and this is the quintessential american story. Thank you dear ill stop there. [applause] you are watching booktv, television for serious readers. Watch a program you see here online at booktv. Org. Irwin gellman is next on booktv. He recalls the relationship between president Dwight Eisenhower and his Vice President Richard Nixon. So not her speaker. Our speaker tonight is pretty brilliant. Irwin gellman is an author of books on for president s. Is taught at uc irvine Chapman University and out franklin and Marshall College in pennsylvania. He authored a book on president nixon years in
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