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
Sunday january 7th at 2 00 p. M. On American History tv, we visit the nra National Sporting arms museum. Theodore roosevelt was probably our shootingest president. He was a very avid hunter. Fifrs thing he did when he left office was organize and go on a very large hunting safari to africa. Now, this particular rifle was prepared specifically for roosevelt. It has the president ial seal engraved on the breach. Roosevelt was famous for the Bull Moose Party and there is a bull moose engraved on the side plate of this gun. Watch cspan cities tour of springfield, missouri, january 6th and 7th. Working with our cable affiliates as we explore america. Next up, a panel of cia analyst and Navy Historians discuss 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 events was titled red navy revealed. Soviet navy, intelligence and analysis during the cold war. Well
Richard its my childhood come to life. Like a marionette show. Also, before i forget, this is the first time my mother has attended one of my readings. And today is her 83rd birthday. Richard . Richard happy birthday, mom. So im going to tell you today about pirate coast. This is my new book and about Thomas Jefferson and the first marines and the secret mission of 1805. He had no troops. He had no backing. But he pulled this mission off. This was americas first covert operation against statesponsored terrorist. Right. We have a little bit of a parallel today. When you hear those stirring marine lyrics i usually think of marines, weapons over there had, amphibious launches. It was a covert operation by one man and a marines. It was a rogue operation. This is the story i want to tell you about. You have to know a little bit about the time period to get into the sense of the story. You know how were on an airplane today and we might complain we dont get two bags of peanuts or Something L
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And today is her 83rd birthday. Richard . Happy birthday, mom. So im going to tell you today about pirate coast. This is my new book and about Thomas Jefferson and the first marines and the secret mission of 1805 [inaudible] the time period to get into the sense of the story. Were on an airplane today and we might thing could been you could be sailing on the mediterranean and be made a barbary save. You could be sailing on your nice ship, your nice Summer Vacation and these marauders from triple e sail down on you and sule spend the next five years as a slave. I want you to get a sense how different the world was back then. Washington, d. C. Was a swampy outpost with 5000 citizens, total population in washington. Hunters shot quayle near the capitol. There were tree stumps on pennsylvania avenue. The thing i like about washington, you know how buckingham is a name to sort of glorify the place where some people live that are attending here today . Well, back in washington they had a pla