surveillance. changes in laborator december 2 identified prostate cancer which required treatment. on december 22, 2023, after consultation with his medical team, he was admitted to walter reed national military medical center and underwent minimally invasive surgical procedure to treat and cure prostate cancer. he was under general anesthesia during this procedure. secretary austin recovered uneventfully from his surgery and returned home the next morning. his prostate cancer was detected early and prognosis is excellent. on january 1, 2024, secretary austin was admitted to walter reed national medical center with complications from the december 22nd procedure, including nausea, severe abdominal hip and leg pain. urinary tract infection.
your question really gets to a bigger issue. i d like to if i could, i want to walk you through a timeline here. i think it s important context. on december 31, a sunday, jake sullivan held a lengthy security conference with the general to discuss issues, the situation in the middle east. there s a lot to do that. on january 1, president biden convened a secure telephone conference with mr. sullivan, with secretary austin, with joint chiefs chairman general brown, secretary blinken, the dni, the cia director and other members of the team. they covered developments in the middle east. president biden directed the nsc, the department of defense and the state department to accelerate work with partners on the houthi attacks in the red sea, which was to be issued no heater that wednesday. we did that. i came to the podium. heard that out. from man, january 1 through
walter reed medical center. in the statement, they said that prostate cancer was detect early and his prognosis is excellent. on january 1 last monday, he was admitted to walter reed medical center with complications from the procedure , including nausea with severe abdominal, hip and leg pain. initial evaluation from that revealed that it was a urinary tract infection. the infection has since cleared and it involved various complications about abdominal fluid that was ultimately drained. rare complications and an oncologist told cnn, less than 1% of instances resulting from these kinds of prostate cancer surgeries. the pentagon still has not revealed why the white house was not made aware of secretary austin s prostate cancer diagnosis until today and depending on press secretary, general was asked today whose ideal it was.
celebration for freedom. now, a national holiday, juneteenth is the direct result of centuries of resistance and revolution by black people leading a fight for their liberation. in 1861, tension between the north and the south reached its breaking point over slavery and statehood, and the civil war began. on january 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of the civil war, president abraham lincoln issued the emancipation proclamation, declaring that all people held as slaves within the confederate controlled states were now free. the proclamation also granted black men access into a struggling union army. by the end of the war, more than 200,000 black soldiers, known as the united states colored troops, had enlisted, becoming instrumental to the union s victory. the civil war officially ended in april of 1865, but it wasn t until june 19th of that year, two years after the emancipation
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