we look forward to your testimony, and learning from you where the legion stands on your legislative agenda. also want to welcome the legion s auxiliary. of course, my friends in florida who had a chance to visit with this morning at breakfast very briefly. but instead of me going through a complete statement i ask unanimous consent that i can enter the full statement into the record. and with that i would like to go ahead and introduce let s see. mike, do you want to give a quick opening statement? thank you very much, mr. chairman. i, too, would like to welcome national commander here this morning, as well as the national president of the american legion auxiliary also. i want to thank both of you for your advocacy for our veterans and enduring support that the american legion s of over 2.5 million members have given for our veterans. before we start i also would like to extend complements to your washington, d.c
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you hope they ll hold the dates and keep them open for the events. third, there s a lot of preparation that needs to goen on the ground ranging from production to security, and fourth, it gives the campuses a chance to really take advantage of these and make sure they build in things to the curriculum that allow for a deeper understanding of what the general election is all about. our focus today, presidential debates. janet brown, who is the executive director of the commission on presidential debates with a look at the fall campaign and the role debates play in american politics. we also want to take a look back at past debates, primary and general elections to give you a sense of how they have evolves. one of the best ways to do so is take you back to september of 1960, the first of four debates between senator john kennedy, senator richard nixon, and show how that debate has changed into what we saw this past campaign cycle from cnn. good evening. the television and r
this must have been familiar territory to you. i first went to china in 1973. so the cat and mouse part of it and you get to see the show commune and the i went to hospital on my 73 trip and we saw the acupuncture, anesthesia, which was the first big exposure of that kind of tightly controlled, showcased tourism. that became the mainstay of what a lot of visitors did. and part of the story of the american press over the last 30, 40 years has been this interaction with the system and pushing and pushing and then the system pushing back. i think in fairness, it s in many ways night and day to today in china for all of the problems. and there are still many from the point of view of reporters. there s no comparison because i think to quote ron walker, they had no idea what was going to hit them. it s true. they never had when you think about who was there, all the top network anchors, all the most powerful people and then this other kind of collection of people that nix
and he was very pleased by it. he said on one of his last trichs trich s trips to china, i d like to think i ve helped make it possible, the extraordinary burgeoning of the chinese economy. whether he d be pleased by the trade imbalance and whether so much american debt is held by china, i don t know. it can be seen as a real weakness or point of vulner ability for the united states, but on the other hand the fact that china holds so much american debt means they want to maintain a good relationship with the united states. what s the downside? the downside for the trade figures is the loss of jobs in the united states and that s really hitting american workers quite hard, but americans are workers and consumers, the advantage of the united states is cheap goods made in china. i think walmart is the single biggest trading partner with china. 60% of what they buy at least comes from china? the trade relationship between walmart and china is bigger than the trade relatio
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