Welcome and thank you for being here. This is our 20th year of the event. E are very happy you are here we want to thank the Navy Memorial for their hospitality for this weekend. Theyve been great partners over the years. My only word i have to kick things off is for all of the students that are with us this weekend. I encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans at the battle of midway through the 75 years of American Military history. This is your own past and present and future so this is a great opportunity and a onceinalifetime opportunity to make the most of it. I would like to welcome admiral tonk admiral frank thorp say a few words of welcome. Welcome to the Navy Memorial. Honor,sion here is to recognize, and celebrate the men services,of the sea past present and future, and to educate the American Public about your service. It is a tremendous honor for us to be here and on a day like today, we use the term sea services, but we are all in it together.
The American Veteran center. Welcome and thank you for being here. This is our 20th year of the event. It is a very special year for us, and we are very happy you are here. We want to thank the Navy Memorial for their hospitality for this weekend. Theyve been great partners over the years. My only word i have to kick things off is for all of the students that are with us this weekend. I encourage you to take all of this in from where we start with veterans at the battle of midway 75 years ago through the 75 years of American Military history. This is your own past and present and future so this is a great opportunity and a onceinalifetime opportunity to make the most of it. I would like to welcome admiral frank thorp to say a few words of welcome. Thorp good morning. Welcome to the Navy Memorial. Our mission here is to honor, recognize, and celebrate the men and women of the sea services, past, present, and future, and to educate the American Public about your service. It is a tremendo
Of the current Interest Rate environment, but we dont try to time our decisions based on capitalizing on Interest Rates at the moment. I think for the long term, maintaining the deep and liquid u. S. Treasury markets is something thats very important to u. S. Economic security. You dont need to time it. Look at the deals apple and verizon did for multiple billions and know its better paper, i believe, than apple. I think we have the best paper in the world. And i think that the markets around the world refleblcted th. Theres a reason the dollar is the worlds reserve currency, why the appetite for u. S. Treasury debt is to high. I think, you know, as you look at the way weve created new products, its really reflected the evolution of market appetite for different kinds of products, and well continue to try to be innovative in terms of introducing products that help to keep the deep liquid markets that we have, but i think any attempt to try and design our products to capitalize on an In
Miller with timesaver traffic. Were ready for you, allyson. We are just excited about today weather wise. Its going to be absolutely wonderful. Were talking about temperatures into the mid70s which is warmer than yesterday and warmer than average. Lets take a look at our michael son camera. A beautiful start to the day. Well see a few fair weather clouds like yesterday but theyre just fair weather clouds. Were going to enjoy that sunshine for a good while through the early afternoon even and temperatures will soar. 55 degrees right here in the district but once you get into the suburbs t is a little cooler. Into the lower 40s. You might want to grab the light jacket. You wont need it later on today. We dont have that wind so it doesnt feel as cool as maybe it did yesterday. 52 for arlington. Fairfax at 47. Waldorf at 46 and Upper Marlboro youre at a degrees. Sunshine today. Look at this. 70 degrees by lunch time. 74 by 4 00. Well top out at 75 and just a few clouds for a nice sunset. G
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