Adding this modernization and reform. This is an hour. Good afternoon, and welcome to the National Press club. Worlds leading organization for journalists. My name is Michael Friedman and i am the 113th president of the National Press club. Im a journalist in residence at university of maryland grover. An executive producer of the public broadcasting series the report. The an Excellent Program ahead. We invite you to listen watch or follow along on twitter using the mpc life. For cspan and public radio viewers andd listeners, pleasee aware that in the audience today, members of the general public so any clause or reaction you mean here, is not necessarily from the working press. Lets begin by introducing our head table. We ask thatuc you please hold yr applause until all the head table guess have been announced. Beginning to my far left, john oshea, col. U. S. Army retired, and number of American Legion post 20 which is based here at the National Press club. Kevin, captain u. S. Navy,
Own, worked up. So many people have no idea you need towork, bring us the workweek, the pensions, unions, the folks who brought us the weekend. I wanted to explain to people, unions have achieved a whole lot in american history, but now they are really in decline and have really taken it on the chin. As a result, things are considerably worse for workers than was the case 30, 40 years ago. Featured nonfiction authors this weekend and every weekend on booktv on cspan two. Fall, the this National Press club hosted a spelling bee competition between journalists and lawmakers. This event was first held in 1913 and was reestablished in 2013. [applause] you, julie. Some entertaining programming tonight. Congress has not yet delayed the spelling bee a national holiday, so some of our competitors are still at work, the politicians are still on the hill for late votes, so we will do things a little differently. We will have the journalists compete for their champion, and when the politicians ar
Programming tonight. Congress has not yet delayed the spelling bee a national holiday, so some of our competitors are still at work, the politicians are still on the hill for late votes, so we will do things a little differently. We will have the journalists compete for their champion, and when the politicians arrive they will battle it out, and the winner of each round will go headtohead to find out who is the champion. So, lets get started. Competing for the press team this year is our defending fromion, Alexandra Petri the washington post. [applause] im still smarting because she beat me last year. John donnelly of cq roll call, a long time press club member. Hey, john. [applause] f npr, myheslow o former colleague. [applause] tillman of buzzfeed. [applause] we have a buzzfeed crowd here. [laughter] cheating, she brought a second competitor. [laughter] gangitano from the hill. [applause] from theawsey washington post. There you are. [applause] eric geller of politico. [applause] is
All right, i think well get started here. Thank you so much for joining us here at the heritage foundation, release of a major paper, which will be the focus. I was told we dont necessarily have to talk about silencing cell phones. We have a robust online audience, and, you know distractions, we want to minimize that here. Thank you for joining us here. Were going to talk about a new report on rebuilding the army. Its one of a series, actually the third paper thats out. The first one talked about how to think about the future, the one released one on the marine corps, this is a major paper on the army and how to think about its relationship with the imperatives of the National Defense strategy, National Security strategy, how the world is changing, and some recommendations for what the army needs to be and the path it needs to go down to get to where it needs to be with a look out to about the 2030 year time frame. Well follow up with a paper on the air force, which i think is coming o
Anyway. We usually have a very robust online audience and the distractions we want to minimize here. Thank you for joining us here. We want to talk about a new report on rebuilding the army. Its one of a series, actually the third paper thats out. The first one talked about how to think about the future, then we released one to the marine corps, this is a major paper on the army and how to think about its relationship with the imperatives of the National Defense strategy, National Security strategy and how the world is changing and recommendations for what the army needs to be and the path it needs to go down to get where it needs to be with a look out to about the 20 30year time frame and follow up with the paper on the air force which i think is coming up next month and then wrap up by the end of the year with the paper on the navy so well have all four Services Covered and how to think about preparations for the future. These papers are meant to give an independent perspective, advi