And the character that he developed over a lifetime, and if you think about what weve done for the duration of this course, weve brought him into the story intermittently throughout. Whether its talking about individual battles or whether its talking about how he organized men or how he kept men he recruited men to get them to maintain or stay in the service. And one of the things i try to get across whenever im talking about washington is that washington is a bit of an inenia to a modern audience. Why . Because we really dont know who he was, what he was, how he looked. I mean, when i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every ten years or so about 700 political scientists and historians across the country, they rank our president s. Now, who knows how our current president is going to rank. But nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln. Sometimes it will
And one of the things i try to get across whenever i am talking about washington, is that washington is a bit of an enigma to a modern audience. Why . Because we dont really know who he was, how he was, how he looked. I mean, when i show you these images here, these images are of three of our noteworthy president s. Every 10 years or so, about 700 political scientists and historians across the country, they rank our president s. Now who knows how our current president is going to rank, but nonetheless, whenever those rankings come out, generally these three guys here rank at the top. Sometimes it will be lincoln. Sometimes it will be washington. Sometimes it will be fdr, but the interesting thing about this is we do not know what george really looked like. We have images of lincoln. Photographed images. And you can follow those photographs over time and see how he changed, how he aged. Of course we have images of fdr. We even have images of him in his wheelchair. Generally the press di
After a disgraced American Finance is found dead in jail for an apparent suicide. Rally. Protestors in indian administered kashmir say the risk their lives for freedom. And other some very unpleasant other costs much of the northeast and eastern regions of china in particular with the watching the progress typhoon it will continue to weaken but very very still quite a significant storm for the next couple of days very heavy amounts of rain also just to the west of shanghai but sunny very unsettled a couple of days ahead with the chances of flooding rains and damaging. Meanwhile for the south hong kong 32 celsius with the rain in the forecast really for the next couple of days you can see by monday it does carry away from shanghai but the rains a very heavy out towards much of the west that we had for the tools the south those ranges generally being kept away from bourne use the marches so quite a bit of cloud in the forecast but the rain with that really staying much further to the nor
In the late 1980s i was a Foreign Policy aid to senator daniel patrick. I was particularly star struck by one of his aids on the foreign relss committee. One might expect he was smart as heck and knew how the world really worked. Master of the legislative process. The kicker is although he seemed very old, i think he was almost 40. He was always the most fun in the room. Quick with a joke or insight he knew the topics were serious but never took himself too seriously. That was him 30 years ago. Since then shefshed for a decade on the board of supervisors. Half the time as chairman and last nine years a member of congress. Representing virginia. For that time hes been a member of the House Committee on governmental over sight and reform. And a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee where hes a Senior Member of the subcommittee on the middle east and south asia. Hes brought to his role in congress the same qualities that so impressed me three decades ago. Fierce intellect. Willing
Center for strategic and International Study day long forum on threats in the region. This is 45 minutes. In the late 1980s i was a Foreign Policy aid to senator daniel patrick. I was particularly star struck by one of his aids on the foreign relss committee. One might expect he was smart as heck and knew how the world really worked. Master of the legislative process. The kicker is although he seemed very old, i think he was almost 40. He was always the most fun in the room. Quick with a joke or insight he knew the topics were serious but never took himself too seriously. That was him 30 years ago. Since then shefshed for a decade on the board of supervisors. Half the time as chairman and last nine years a member of congress. Representing virginia. For that time hes been a member of the House Committee on governmental over sight and reform. And a member of the House Foreign Affairs committee where hes a Senior Member of the subcommittee on the middle east and south asia. Hes brought to