He sailed between london and port royal jamaica which was known as the wickedest city on earth. For years he did that responsibly and nobly. But then one day in 1684, for reasons no one can quite determine, Joseph Bannister stole the golden fleece, recruited a pirate crew and turned pirate. Tonight at eight about eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Up next, a forum on strengthening federal investments and Scientific Research as a way to help grow the economy and create jobs. We will hear from former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as well as a panel of researchers and academics. It is part of what is called the middle class prosperity project launched by senator Elizabeth Warren and congressman elijah cummings. Start the middle class prosperity project for them. Why is the middle class prosperity project holding a hearing on the importance of federal funding for research . The reasons are three, and they are all deeply interrelated and related to the future of americas middle class. Investm
Disease in virtually all of the countries around the world. I was just impressed as i walked through the poster sessions at aaic how many of the posters were researchers from korea, thailand, china, japan, et cetera, who were coming here to washington to share their knowledge and their perspective on the disease. Its a global disease, for sure. Its not affecting western countries. I want to throw one more question in here which is in terms of having a National Plan and harnessing all of the different groups working on this from the Research Community to big pharma to universities, government, et cetera. Three years ago, the Obama Administration released a National Plan to address alzheimers and the goal was struck me as exceedingly ambitious. By 2025, so in ten years to be able to prevent and effectively treat alzheimers disease. Does that strike you both as realistic . Ten years . The way we look at it its an aspirational goal. We absolutely want to be there by 2025, and i think the e
What i want to do now is turn this over. As you know were the American Veteran center is presenting the Andrew Goodpasture award and i want to turn this over to the president of the American Veterans center. Jim . [applause] thank you very much, tom. Peter. And officers of the army and navy club, thank you for being our partners for this evenings lecture. Ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of my colleagues at the American Study Center i welcome you to the Army Navy Club for the presentation of the eight annual andrew j. Goodpasture award named after a Great American and presented to another Great American Lieutenant Colonel ralph peters United States army retired. Id like to say we are honored by the presence of general goodpastures granddaughter and her husband, matt. Would you please stand. [applause] great to have representation as we have always had from the goodpasture family here. I would also like to thank the Bradley Foundation for underwriting the goodpasture award. Diane, would
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You get tot often hear from multiple cia directors at the same place at the same time, speaking on the record. I would like to welcome to the stage our moderator, Principal Deputy director of national intelligence, the honorable sue gordon along with the honorable john brennan, the honorable general michael hayden, the honorable porter goss and the honorable jobs what does judge webster. Judge webster. Thank you. [applause] how lucky are we . I think i may be the first moderator in this programs history who has the joy of saying that she worked for everybody that was on the panel. Gentleman, im going to try to make you proud. This is remarkable. Here is what we are going to do, take a little bit of a rock throughboth romp their histories and 10 years, and comment on the issues 10 years, and comment tenures and comment on the issues. Can you look at us when you address us . Yes, sir. We are getting it back echo. I love that. What is the greatest threat or issue that consumed your tenure