Our speaker this morning, the former secretary of defense william perry, i first met when he was the deputy secretary of defense, and he and mrs. Perry came to korea where i was the c5j5 and i was assigned to escort them around. And i had a lot of those kinds of duties while i was assigned to korea. But it was the most pleasant experience i had and i say that honestly, to get to know these two people. And he then became our secretary of defense. And many of us that have served thought that he was one of the best secretary of defenses weve ever had. Hes currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and a freeman Foley Institute of international studies. He is the michael and barbara bavarian professor at Stanford University and serves as codirector of the Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative and preventive defense project. Please help me welcome our speaker this morning, former secretary of defense william perry. applause what a pleasure it is to be aboard this symbol of americas mille
Welcome, shall, to the uss macon islands. My name is lewis loeven and im the executive director of the San Francisco fleet Week Association and what a great fleet week were going to have for 2012. Thank you. This is the second time weve had the uss macon islands and i want to thank captain pringle and his entire crew. What a great ship and what a great crew. They turned this swear hanger deck around all right night and turned it into a Conference Room and it looks absolutely beautiful. Thank you, captain, and your entire crew. Im going to make this short because were already running a little bit behind schedule, but San Francisco fleet week for the third year is organized with i object credible participation from city, civilian agencies from all around the region and all of us our fabulous United States military, the coast guard has been fabulous in providing assets to protect everybody out on the bay. It is one heck of a Logistics Program to get this whole program started and here we
Aboard this symbol of americas millery power, the uss macon island. What a pleasure it is to be among the men and women of our armed forces and the men and women of the First Responders of the San Francisco bay area. Fleet week for many years in San Francisco was a somewhat [inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the military and the First Responders, the great coming together of our uniformed personnel and a great [speaker not understood] of San Francisco. This amazing transformation in the last few years was due primarily to the vision and the dedication of three people, george and Charlotte Schultz and mike myers. Id like to pause to thank all three of them for this work. applause and in april of 1996, my last year as secretary of defense, i met one morning intelligence briefing at 7 oclock along with general charlie. The previous day general hughes had briefed us that the Chinese Military were to begin extensive military maneuvers in the ta
Welcome, shall, to the uss macon islands. My name is lewis loeven and im the executive director of the San Francisco fleet Week Association and what a great fleet week were going to have for 2012. Thank you. This is the second time weve had the uss macon islands and i want to thank captain pringle and his entire crew. What a great ship and what a great crew. They turned this swear hanger deck around all right night and turned it into a Conference Room and it looks absolutely beautiful. Thank you, captain, and your entire crew. Im going to make this short because were already running a little bit behind schedule, but San Francisco fleet week for the third year is organized with i object credible participation from city, civilian agencies from all around the region and all of us our fabulous United States military, the coast guard has been fabulous in providing assets to protect everybody out on the bay. It is one heck of a Logistics Program to get this whole program started and here we
Experience i had and i say that honestly, to get to know these two people. And he then became our secretary of defense. And many of us that have served thought that he was one of the best secretary of defenses weve ever had. Hes currently a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute and a freeman Foley Institute of international studies. He is the michael and barbara bavarian professor at Stanford University and serves as codirector of the Nuclear Risk Reduction initiative and preventive defense project. Please help me welcome our speaker this morning, former secretary of defense william perry. applause what a pleasure it is to be aboard this symbol of americas millery power, the uss macon island. What a pleasure it is to be among the men and women of our armed forces and the men and women of the First Responders of the San Francisco bay area. Fleet week for many years in San Francisco was a somewhat [inaudible] affair and it has been transformed into this great coming together by the milit