Admiral why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral . [laughter] what a great question. You can choose to hear a particular course you will lose ultimately in a different direction. And then to be in charge of all activity and with the commander of us Pacific Command position for senior admiral. My boss, a wonderful boss, secretary gates called to say forget about the pacific we will send you to nato i bk the first and only admiral to be the supreme allied commander and it was an accidenthe. That the navy was an accident as a career . Soet somewhat. That my father had kernel of marines growing up in that environment and going to Quantico High School thinking it would be them marine corps everybody goes out on a cruise going on a cruise are in san diego. Late in the day on the peer and the sun was setting looking out on all that ocean and i just wanted to be a sailor. I told my dad and mom they were hoping it would be a marine that years later my dad said that came out okay.
Particular course, but the sea will come, the wind will come, youll lose, ultimately youll move, ultimately, in a differentic direction. More prosaically, it comes from a period in my career when i was a fourstar admiral. I was finishing up down in u. S. Southern command, peter, and i was in charge of all military activity south of the United States. Andi i was very hopeful of going to the pacific next as the end of u. S. Pacific command which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. Gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So from the nato perspective i was at the dental admiral who became the supreme allied expired but the navy was an accident as well, one it, as a career . Guest somewhat. So, lets go way back. I grew up in a marine corps family. My father, george stavridis, proud colone
Ten admirals and the voyage of character, which was published late last year. Admiral james stavridis. Why do you refer to yourself as the accidental admiral. Guest what a great question. First of all because at a certain level all of our lives are accidents. You can choose to steer a particular course, but the sea will come, the wont will come, youll move ultimately in a different direction. More prosaically it comes from a period in my career when i was a four star admiral, fish issuing the u. S. Sorry command and charge of all military activities south of the out and i was very hopeful of going pacific next as a commander of u. S. Pacific command. Which is a very traditional position for a senior admiral. My boss, wonderful boss, secretary defense robert gates, bob gates, said, stavridis. Were going to send you to nato. I was the first and thus far the only admiral to be spree supreme am lied commander in nato and just an accident of timing and faith and secretary gate decision. So
Too quickly could lead to further outbreaks. Today the head of the Federal Reserve said americans must feel comfortable returning to work, and that he said would take a sensible plan, including testing, treatment and a vaccine. And as we come on the air tonight, more than 91,000 americans have been killed by the coronavirus in the u. S. , and there are more than 1. 5 million confirmed cases nationwide. At a Cabinet Meeting late today, President Trump did not back down from his decision to like hydroxychloroquine, a malaria drug the f. D. A. Has warned is not safe or effective for treating covid 19. The president called a study showing a higher death rate among veterans who took the drug phony, saying it was a trump enemy statement. Well, theres a lot of news to get to tonight and were going to begin at the white house. Cbss weijia jiang leads off our coverage. Weijia. Reporter all day President Trump stood by his decision to take hydroxychloroquine and even called on cabinet members du
Recognized the importance of the Airline Business and our retaining Critical Service and keeping our team employed. Its extremely important and great news. Doug, you already said you plan to apply for a loan from the Treasury Department in the over 25 billion bucket thats been set aside for the Airline Industry beyond that, do you expect to have to borrow more in the months ahead from the private market in order to continue to fund the operations the way you want to have them funded thats unclear, phil. It depends so much on how demand recovers, when demand recovers and how quickly. What i know is this, we as an industry asked the federal government for 50 billion of assistance, thats what we got, 50 billion of the assistance. Thats what we believe we need to assure we can ride through this clearly you can go to more dire circumstances than where it stays like this for an extended period of time, but from our own projections it stays like this through the second quarter, a gradual reco