Jonathan white and im vice chair of the Lincoln Forum and it is my pleasure to welcome you to this session. We are on Hallowed Ground and it is altogether fitting and proper that we come to gettysburg every november to commemorate the life and legacy of abraham lincoln. Our first speaker this morning is peter carmichael. Peter is the robert c. Flour professor of civil war studies at Gettysburg College and cwi hats around this morning its wonderful to see those here. He holds his, ph. D. From Penn State University where he had the fortune to study under gary gallagher. He is the author or editor of five books, including the last generation Young Virginians in peace, war and reunion published by unc press in 2005. He is one of the series editors for unc presss civil war america series and i know him best through this capacity. He was my editor for midnight in america and i can tell you his thoughtfulness, careful attention to detail and his generosity resources made my book a better book
It was a dramatic first. The first time in American Naval history that women were assigned to the crew of a ship. On a soggy november 18, 1972, at Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in california the uss sanctuary was recommissioned. The first woman admiral elaine dirk gave the commissioning address. The sanctuary is being recommissioned as a new and unusual type of ship with a new mission to assist the navy effort to improve moral and flexibility by home porting combatant ships overseas to provide medical and Resale Services to deploy dependents wherever the fleet may be assigned. In addition to this forward step the sanctuary has been selected as the ship to participate in the Pilot Program which will evaluate the utilization of women for sharp board duty. It will be home for about 80 women, half in the crew and half at the hospital. With these innovations you could see that the sanctuary is truly unique in many respects. The sanctuary is an experiment to see how well women and men can tog
Much if we didnt have armies in the field. So our next session will look at how yalta affected the execution of the closing months of world war ii. To do this, weve asked our very own rob citino. Dr. Citino is from the institute of war and democracy, swlt the Museum Senior historian at the National World War Ii Museum, and ill beat him to the punch scompline say hes got the longest title on staff. Hes an awardwinning military historian. Hes published 10 books, primarily on the german army. Hes taught for three decades, including stints at west point, u. S. Military academy, and the u. S. Army war college. He first came to the museum in 2012 for our International Conference. Then he came in 2013 for our International Conference. Then he was one of our featured tour historians at the 70th anniversary of dday cruise. Then he came to our 2014 International Conference. But as he always reminds me, did not come to our 2015 International Conference because we didnt invite him that year. Bette
Outbreak of coronavirus here at home and around the world. Squad here. Reporter sanders will overnight the number of People Campaign in michigan today and joe biden is headed owe to mississippi. Reported to be sick with the and there is a lot at stake for virus in the United States has raised to more than 400. These candidates when voters in and this morning thousands of both states and four others go passengers on a cruise ship to the polls in just two days, being held off the coast of willie. California have learned that the morgan, thank you very much. Well see you again in a few ship will dock tomorrow. Minutes. Chuck todd is nbc political director and moderator of meet meanwhile, italy is taking drastic measures, putting the press. Chuck, good morning, good to see millions of citizens under you. I want to turn to the race to quarantine. A live report just ahead. The white house in a minute but first the response from the and later this morning, a sunday white house to the coronavi
Our first speaker that we have is madeleine, are you over there . Im going to let you stand up here at the mic if thats good four. Shes the principal director for cyber policy for the office of the secretary of defense. Without further ado lets get the party started. [ applause ] so ill apologize, we actually had thought our colleague from the fbi would go first, but im happy is that okay . If thats all right. Okay. Its not the program, but so it is my distinct honor and pleasure to introduce david kay porter who is the assistant section chief with the Foreign Influence Task force, counterintelligence division, joining us from fbis headquarters. Thank you. [ applause ] sorry about that. So good morning, everybody. My name is david porter. As anne said, i serve as the assistant section chief of the fbis Foreign Influence Task force. Or fitf as we are more broadly referred to within the Intelligence Community. I appreciate the opportunity to be here this morning to represent the men and