As best we can. Im going to talk to you a little bit tonight about america the ingenious. This book i wrote. The best thing about writing books is hopefully you learned something. I learned a great deal writing this. Americansof how invented, developed or learned to exploit so many of the things exploit the world. What i found even more telling was how things are invented. How invention itself is encouraged and nurtured. At least how it has been encouraged and nurtured in this country in the past. , as i do in myy book, that we are a nation of tinkerers. We americans like to think of ass natural adventurers, risktakers and entrepreneurs. But what does that mean exactly. I am a believer in american exceptionalism. It hasnes like to say, to be earned, never given. How did we earn it . How did we do what we did and how could we get back to doing it right . As the first nation to exist wholly in the modern age, United States has also insisted when making things when we were extracting them
Partnership with National Security advisor kissinger. Im going to share the screen so we could look at powerpoint pictures as we go through the sequence. First of all, here is president nixon himself. He had been born in 1913. He grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. To dukeated and went University Law school. This was in the worst years of the great depression. The mid1930s. During the Second World War he joined the u. S. Navy. Nixonuld see a photo of as an officer. He served with distinction in the pacific. Noncombat but as a logistics expert. Getting the right equipment to the right place at the right time. He was given a series of commendation from his commanders. He was also a very talented poker player. He had a great ability to bluff. That is a valuable quality in someone who is undertaking policy at a highlevel. In 1946 after he had been demobilized from the navy, he ran for congress. On the right, you could see a poster from his first election campaign. In 1946,
Emory university provided this video. Prof. Allitt todays class is about president Richard Nixon and his National Security advisor, Henry Kissinger. In some ways, nixon is one of the most brilliant people ever to occupy the white house and had incredible political gifts. And on the other hand, hes one of the worst people to ever occupy the white house because he had a broad streak of paranoia. He was mistrustful, sometimes against the instruments of government like the state department. In the end, ruined himself by bringing about his own catastrophic downfall in the watergate scandal of 19721974. We are going to look at the good and the bad side of the nixon presidency and nixons partnership with National Security advisor kissinger. Im going to share the screen so we could look at powerpoint pictures as we go through the sequence. First of all, here is president nixon himself. He had been born in 1913. In whittier, california. He grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. He
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The International Space station for about six months. Nasa tv coverage. Headset are six key positions were monitoring the health of the vehicle and crew. The mission director, responsible for success, is in charge of the room. The person you here talking is the crew operations and resources engineer. Open. Con 19, this is the other positions are focused on things like navigation and control of the propulsion,tware, lifesupport systems and communications with ground segments. Nasa has its own team members in Mission Control, houston, where they have been preparing for crew dragon crew dragon arrival. For now, lets go to john for an Operational Update on the launch countdown. Hello from spacex headquarters in hawthorne, california. On the falcon principal integration engineer. We are just over four hours to launch it its a major event, getting to this point. The falcon nine for the dragon capsule on top and it has remained vertical on path 309a falcon static fired the nine we used the sa