Northwestern and Kellogg School of management, serve is also an independent journalist. Having written extensively for the chicago tribune. Chicago history writers digest, chicago athlete and mens fitness. Hes the author of two books, sams boys the history of chicagos leon beach and legendary lifeguard sam leon and most recently, war football, world war one and the birth of the nfls, which was selected by the professional Football Researchers Association as winner of the 2019 nelson ross award for Outstanding Achievement in pro football historical research. Will you please join me in welcoming chris serb to the stage. Thank you, laura, for that introduction, and thank you to the National World War One Museum and memorial for having me here tonight. And thanks to all of you for showing up to hear me and listen to what i have to say. Both those of you who are here in person and those of you who are watching this remotely. Before i start, i want to acknowledge a couple of special guests.
Stepped out for the david you can take a peek around and see how they lived. He was probably the most famous painter from missouri, most famous in the 1930s, 40s, is known for doing a style of art called regionalism. A lot of the midwest rural scenes, he often paints. He paints American Labor scenes but it tends to be the rural aspect of it. His core belief was common art for the common man. He is an artist who becomes famous during his career, and fairly welltodo. Tom benton came from a political family. He was named for his great uncle senator thomas benton. Tom grows up surrounded i politics by politics. His father was a successful lawyer. A u. S. District attorney. When tom was seven his father was elected to the house of representatives. The family moves to washington dc for eight years. For benton, growing up in bc, then coming back to the ozarks every summer, that will be formative for him to experience those different worlds. This able to move in political, powerful orbit but a
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The Reagan Library in simi valley, california. Thank you and welcome to panel six, assessing the rebuild, will we have the strategy and resources to rebuild the military in fiscal year 19 . On this panel we will evaluate president trumps desire to rebuild the military, and we will look at the problems they see as. Like to introduce our distinguished panel. Honorable eric adelman at the income for secretary of defense for policy from 20052009. Independent gun, a former ambassador to turkey and finland. Ms. Marillyn hewson, chairman, president and ceo of Lockheed Martin. She joined lockheed 30 years ago as an engineer and rose all the way to the top. In 2016 Fortune Magazine for can magazine identified her as 50 of the most powerful women in business runs will dr. Kathleen hicks, director of International Security program for csis. She was appointed to the National Commission on the future of the army by the president pictures a former principal undersecretary of policy at the pentagon.
Historian mark moyar chronicles the rise of special Operation Forces in his book, pozen a full. You watching book tv in prime time on cspan2. Since he left the white house, president george w. Bush has taken up painting. Creating portraits of military veterans. They have been published in the book, portraits of courage. President bush talked about why he decided to paint these veterans and his time in office. Good evening. I have the honor of being the executive director. I thank you for joining us. In honor of our men and women who defend our freedom around the world in uniform please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america. And to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Please be seated. Now that we have said the pledges that are fake, like it if all of those who are with the armed forces here today whether active, or retired as well as their familie