All for joining us. [applause] youre watching 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books on cspan2s booktv. Television for serious readers. At the new America Foundation. It is my great pleasure to introduce my colleague and friend, mike waltz who has this wonderful book out today warrior diplomat a green berets battles from washington to afghanistan, which really outlines by quite unusual career as both been somebody who is creating a white house with Vice President cheney and also carrying out the policies in the field as a special forces there. Mike also runs a successful business. If the fellow here at the new America Foundation and so he is going to outline kind of the big ideas in some of the interesting stories in the book and then well open it to a question with everyone. Thank you. So, thank you, peter. Thank you for coming out today. Lets take a brief moment and talk about some of the broader Strategic Issues that im trying to address in the book and really underline a lot of m
I really appreciate that question because actually when we develop caring across generations with those two demographic shifts in my. That there is enormous opportunity for us to think about how we are we being a whole new social contract in the fabric of our nation weeding and. And the truth is i want to go back to this point about multigenerational relationship and the imports of multigenerational relationships that help bridge a lot of the gaps. I think weve worked really hard in the campaign to think about people who are aging people with disabilities, the caregivers themselves whether their family caregivers or the workers themselves, and really the demographics of who are the workers and one of the need for those workers. But also looking at people like myself or in the Sandwich Generation who are also trying to figure out how we meet the needs of our children and also the needs of her aging parents. Or aging loved ones in our household. And even how we are managing ourselves in
And in fact what happens is the department of defense and the cia refused to cooperate with any psychological review boards. So they can get information and therefore every complaint filed against them has failed. Has the licenses im a psychologist. Have the licenses been pulled . And the answer was know. I want to thank you all for coming. Thanks again. I hope we can do it again soon, maybe with something more cheerful. [applause] well done. With the u. S. Senate in recess all week book tv in prime time continues wednesday night starting at 8 00 p. M. Eastern. Chinas secret strategy to replace america as the global superpower. And after months and months of cleaning the house Charles Halpern who had been given that task was making one more walkthrough. And in the attic he looked over and saw an envelope with a kind of green seal on it and walked over and noticed the date was in 1832 document. He removed a single mail from a panel in an upstairs attic room and discovered a truck and bo
Privacy that she needed. One more time, thank you very much. [applause] feel free to come forward if you would like. Good afternoon. Im peter bergen. I run International Security program at the new America Foundation and its my great pleasure to introduce my colleague and friend who has this wonderful new book out. The green berets battles from afghanistan to washington, which outlines makes quite unusual career as these somebody who is creating policy in the white house but also runs a successful business here it is a fellow here at the new America Foundation. So he is going to outline pane of the big ideas and some of the interesting stories in the book and then we will throw it open to a questionandanswer session with everyone here. Thank you. Mike. So thank you, peter. Thanks for coming out today. Lets take a brief moments and talk about it default on the broader Strategic Issues have tried to address in the book and really underlined a lot of what makes the rss feed are mentioned
[applause] members of congress i have high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you is excellency mohamed osheroff donnie president of the Islamic Republic of afghanistan ashraf ghani. [applause] in the name of god, the merciful and compassionate, speaker boehner, Vice President biden, Senate Majority leader mcconnell, House Majority leader mccarthy, House Minority leader ms. Pelosi, Senate Minority leader, ladies and gentlemen of the congress please allow me to thank you for your gracious invitation to address this unique forum of deliberative democracy. Above all else id like to begin by thanking the people of the United States, whose generous support for my country has been of such immense value in advancing the cause of freedom. [applause] more than one million brave americans have served in afghanistan. They have come to know our snowcapped mountains, our valleys, our windswept deserts, our parched fields, our rivers and our plains of waving wheat. But more important than