Countervailing effects which like pessimism in then to anticipate a shorter timetable. The it with every nine englishspeaking minority in no case so far but the italians in they all be proud to take part in parades with traditional dress but that seems to be a form of cultural retrieval and hasnt happened so far. You can only make predictions on the basis of what has happened in to it is the perot country but it will happen. Pretty much everything happens. In their attitudes change with this necessity to converse and collaborate next of whom speak spanish. Host this spanish is not the defining factor of a play to close with this. With the unified hispanic bloc in the United States . Yes. But that is only created from people from the outside those of hispanic origins those that to a been given brewster rennet ironically. A tremendous boost. And then resulted with the community for a particular party but that single issue will be sufficient to sustain between all the different hispanic o
You could do the whole mission in it is three years if you land on the planet and you use the planetary a mechanics properly you could do it efficiently, explore the planet, you could be to people there this is a round trip mission. There is some interest in a mission to do the most you could put to instruments on demos but the problem with mars right now is once you lay and you have to take off again for you need the infrastructure on the planet. It has almost 40 percent of earths gravity. Have to have lifesupport established before you get there than infrastructure to get off the planet if you want to leave. Jim lovell and others have proposed into a oneway missions sent to the older infrastructure and we will stay in it you can send younger people better. He only says that in half in jest but there has been some interest in though oneway mission that means once you get there you dont have to worry about to have of way to get back, again. Host teeeighteen would you volunteered to be
It is for people my age disorienting. For people, my children and grandchildrens age is the only america they have known and the most natural thing in the world. You can watch this and other programs online at booktv. Org. The wonderful thing about the gulf coast, is so underappreciate it and that is good because it gives us a lot to write about. If we were in new York San Francisco or chicago those cities and places are all so well known and new york is the literary capital but on the gulf coast we tend to think about from texas to the Florida Panhandle there really is instability, we have a similar environment, similar trees, long leaf pines, palm trees, sandy soil, salt in the air. The gulf of mexico and nourishes and supplies us with wonderful seafood, estuaries, wonderfully rich and tradition and culture. In and around these things for hundreds of years, it is an extraordinarily rich subject to take and of course along comes the oil spill in 2010 where all of a sudden we are in ce
Economy so keep that in mind today. You are your purchasing dollars account for events like this. Introducing steve vogel. Our student daughter and guess today is steve vogel, the author of through the perilous fight 6 weeks that saved the nation and he also wrote a book called the pentagon. He has written extensively about military affairs and the treatment of veterans from the wars in afghanistan and iraq. Is reported about the war in afghanistan was part of a package of Washington Post stories selected as finalists for the 2002 pulitzer prize. He covered the september 11th, 2001, terrorist attack on the pentagon and subsequent reconstruction. He also covered the first gulf war and the war in iraq. In addition to the u. S. Military operations in the balkans, rwanda and somalia please welcome steve vogel. [applause] thank you very much, thank you. We will make this instead of a lecture make this more of a conversation about steves book. You might have noticed the subtitle, through the
Has. Batson was nice. Says almost enough to make you want to run for office. [laughter] almost. We are delighted to be back here tonight we have the opportunity to visit the Nixon Library on a number of locations in to serve the Nixon Administration during the first term and i am always pleased to come back to visit this part of the world to be reminded of the important time in our history. But i was happy to be a part of the administration. We should explain why we are here together. I was born in lincoln nebraska and she was born in casper wyoming. 1954 when i was 13 years old my dad moved the family to caspar wyoming. He had a choice between there or montana. We grew up together and i took her out when she was 16 and we will celebrate our 50th wedding anniversary. [applause] butted dad picked montana instead of wyoming of course, i never would have mary lynn she would have married someone else and she said then he would have been Vice President of the United States. [laughter] [appl