[applause] we hope you enjoyed todays ceremony. Thank you very much for coming. We are honored to welcome nearly 500 people from the air force and marines and merchant marine. This event was conceived in large part to recognize the contributions they made it to ultimate victory in europe and the pacific. Several will be on board the aircraft participating in the flyover. He is now 96 years old and still an active pilot in alaska. He drove here from alaska by himself and will be on board one of the b17s. A rear admiral shot down in the aircraft for the navy. Today he will be flying in one of the texans that comes by early in the flyover. Al tucker through a lightning in europe during world war ii before been shot down over germany on his 22nd combat he spent the last several months of the war as a prisoner of the germans. Mr. Tucker will be one of the biplanes for todays flyover. In 1945, a pilot was based in the pacific theater, and he will be participating in the flyover as a passenge
It really is. Up next on American History tv, u. S. Naval College Professor john maurer talked about Winston Churchills relationship with american president s throughout his career. They examined churchills changing attitude toward the United States and how this influenced his rapport with american president s including teddy roosevelt, Calvin Coolidge, and franklin roosevelt. Posted by the New York Historical society, this program is about 90 minutes. Professor maurer i want to thank dale and allen and jenna and anna for supporting me jenna, yeah, of the New York Historical society again for inviting me back to give a talk. I will be talking about the relationship of churchill to american president s. Churchill knew a great number of them, had opinions about these american president s, and they had opinions about him, as you are going to see. So, what im going to be talking about was how leaders reflect on other leaders and think about leaders and also to look at Anglo American relati
Objectionable but no excuse for criminal acts. The manhunt too find the ferguson shooters. Those two officers released from the helicopter. Several questions and release released by police no arrests. Gathered for a candlelight vigil. What happened was a pure ambush. This was a damn punk. Punk. President obama was not told at the incident for several days. Hit a barrier trying to get to the white house. Same thing thats happening to hillary. Carjacking victim taking the stand. The victim describing a perilling rise and a decision to escape. Another american who contracted ebola while volunteer africa is in the u. S. Today for treatment. Former reality show found guilty in the 2010 murder of his wife. The verdict is in. 12 years. He said he will appeal. Ash is falling more than 30 miles away from an active volcano. People living nearby were evacuated. In action soon after a very bad crash. Taken out all that Robert Downey jr. Personally delivered a bionic arm. To a 7yearold boy. Bang, n
And why the next Foreign Policy crisis for the worlds number one power might well involve the worlds number two power. But first heres my take. Now that president obama has won reelection, the debate in washington has shifted from whether we should raise taxes to how and by how much. This makes sense. With a deficit over a trillion dollars, we will need a combination of increased tax revenues and spending cuts. The president and his allies including robert rubin have made the case that eliminating deductions simply will not get you enough money. You will actually have to raise tax rates. Thats probably true as well. But lets not give up entirely on the issue of deductions and all those other hidden subsidies that the simpsonbowles report accurately called backdoor spending hidden in the tax code. In order to sound like theyre not spending money, congress often tends to grant special exemptions to pace taxes. In hids excellent book red ink David Russell points out if you get a 1,000 exe
Now that president obama has won reelection, the debate in washington has shifted from whether we should raise taxes to how and by how much. This makes sense. With a deficit over a trillion dollars, we will need a combination of increased tax revenues and spending cuts. The president and his allies including robert rubin have made the case that eliminating deductions simply will not get you enough money. You will actually have to raise tax rates. Thats probably true as well. But lets not give up entirely on the issue of deductions and all those other hidden subsidies that the simpsonbowles report accurately called backdoor spending hidden in the tax code. In order to sound like theyre not spending money, congress often tends to grant special exemptions to paying taxes. In his excellent book red ink David Russell points out if you get a 1,000 exemption, its exactly the same as being paid a thousand dollars by the government. Yet one is recorded as government spending, which is bad, the