By tomorrow morning, the members of congress will have a report and be ready for action. Youve been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts address hours after the attack at pearl harbor. She gave that address before her husband even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, we are going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first and first ladys polls. We will look at her life, her relationships and the time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Welcome to first ladies influence and image series. Joining us tonight is allida black, the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project at George Washington university and an historian. Another historian, Doug Brinkley who is an author from rice university. Thank you for being here with us. Doug brickley, march 1933, inauguration and entered the white house. What are they walking into . Fdr did not get to walk in. He came in a wheelchair. The fact that somebody was crippled in the lower half said there
Answer it in two parts. The two takeaways are the terms. Ncertainty and inflexibility uncertainty is the budget environment we are in right now. Not knowingnty of when we are going to have a budget or with the budget is going to be. As a navy, we are asked to with capablence ships to do our nations is this. To do that, we have to plan. We have to plan a strategy, a budget. Aviation andan for ship depot maintenance. We have to train our people and we have to have a plan for that. We also have to have a maintenance schedule. With the uncertainty, it is comes toid, when it the planning. With the inflexibility that we budget environment now, we haveht already seen what happens in 2013 and when we look at 2014, the combination of a continuing resolution and a sequester will impact our training. Its going to reduce the number carriers that we can effectively train. Had two carrier rings then had to go to reduce training. In 14, its going to be more than twice. Half of our carrier air wings w
Youre been listening to some of Eleanor Roosevelts address hours after the attack at pearl harbor. She gave that address before her husband even spoke to the nation. For the next two hours, we are going to get to know this transformational first lady. Shes consistently ranked first and first ladys polls. Will look at her life, her relationships and the time in the white house from 1933 to 1945. Welcome to first ladies influence and image series. Joining us tonight is the editor of the Eleanor Roosevelt papers project at George Washington university and an historian. Another historian, Doug Brinkley who is an author from rice university. Thank you for being here with us. 1933, andley, march operated in a entered the white house. What are they walking into . Fdr did not get to walk in. He came in a wheelchair. The fact that somebody was crippled in the lower half said not to fear but fear is sell. Thats perhaps the most famous phrase of the inauguration. What people was fearing was chaos
to just add a little bit, the goal is to have more intimate cooperation sold e. can work together to get better than dealing with the constraints. we are not seeking to changes in the constitution. we are not seeking unified command and we are not seeking for japan to become a more militaristic in character. the aim is we need to get rid of the impediments so that our forces can work together more efficiently or effectively. that is the goal. i am phil grata from the state department public policy bureau. if japan does not choose to step up to the plate and let the alliance with their, what are the most plausible consequences you are concerned about? if japan and the united states are not moving forward together one of the consequences, we are going to have an alliance because one of the most important features of the alliance is the fact that the government and the people of japan allow us to use of military bases in japan without which the tyranny of time and distance
[inaudible conversations] okay, can you hear us? so, welcome to everyone here. we re so delighted to have this special event this evening with stephane hessel. we re happy to welcome so many of you here tonight, and it s a great honor for us to welcome stephane hessel to talk about the english translation of the book which has been translated into english as time for outrage and has been published by 12 book group. he has, of course, led a long and rich and very engaged rife. i can only hit on some of the milestones of that remarkable life in introducing him. he s 93 years old, turning 94 next month. [applause] he is born in germany in 1917 in the midst of the war in the same year of the russian revolution, which was perhaps meaningful for what would come in his life later, and he moved to france with his parents and brother in 1924. he grew up in a very artistic household, family, friends. he was nationalized as a french citizen in 1937. though his citizenship was taken aw