Naval battle in history and was a decisive victory for the United States and their allies. Up next, six panelists participate in the 75th befallingy discussion the panel, a retired admiral discusses the legacy of the battle. All, i would like to put in a little plug for a marvelous new book written by our first speaker or edited, tom cutler has edited this retrospective published by the Naval Institute. Recently it was put out and in fact filled with interesting new and old assessments of the battle, including some japanese testimony. Also a number of the panelists have written for this as well. I wanted to at least give that a plug. Second, what i wanted to do was this,ould not resist namely for a couple of reasons. Thanks to wikipedia i discovered the fact that it has become the basic Foundation Source to go , which then says you cannot cite it. I did have one person who used it for his entire paper, which is another story. But i discovered some different points. If you search this b
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Turmoil in that country. His marks of the National Press club yesterday are about an hour. Thank you all for coming. Good morning. Welcome to the National Press club. For todays newsmaker , carlos vecchio, the ambassador of the ball of are you in b olivarian republic of venezuela to the United States. He is here today to talk about the latest developments in venezuela in the midst of what is widely acknowledged to be constitutional, political, and withmic crises, coupled internationald sanctions and their impact on venezuelas population of 32 million people. Countries led the since the death of longtime leader hugo chavez and 2013. More than 13 countries, including the United States, have recognized juan guaido as the legitimate ruler of venezuela while russia, china, and their allies continue to recognize president maduro. Representatives of president maduro have had several rounds of talks mediated under the auspices of norway, most recently in barbados this month, ecchio canador v o
Next up, a panel of cia analysts and Navy Historians discuss recently declassified cold war documents on the soviet navy. Cohosted by the Central Intelligence agency, the National Museum of the u. S. Navy and the Naval Historical Foundation. The hourlong event was titled red navy revealed, soviet Navy Intelligence and analysis during the cold war. All right. Well, good morning, everyone. Thanks for coming out to the National Press club. The worlds oldest and Largest Organization of professional journalists. My name is kevin wency, on behalf the jetblue and directors of the press club, i want to welcome you and our audience on cspan and other media. Thank you very much. We have a special program for you today. First, i wanted to introduce claire sassen from the Naval Historic Foundation claires the executive director. Thank you, kevin. Can you hear me . I know you want to hear from everyone else on the panel, not me. Ill only take a minute of your time. We are delighted to work with the
Board of directors i want to welcome you and our audience on cspan and other media. Thank you very much. We have a special program for you today, and first i want to introduce claire sassen from the neighborhood historical foundation. She wanted to say a word about their partnership on this, and then well get into the statements and qs and as. Thank you, kevin. Can you hear me . I know you want to hear from everyone else sitting here at the panel, not me. So ill only take a minute of your time. We are delighted to be able to work with the cia to bring you this, we think, exciting briefing this morning. I also want to thank kevin and the National Press club for hosting us this morning. For those of you who dont know, the naval historical foundation, were a nonprofit membership organization. We focus on preserving and commemorating naval heritage. We use naval history to help educate the American People on the importance of our navy, sea power, and the maritime domain. Were located at th