And grew up in a lower middleclass family in california. He went to the local college, whittier college. And went to Duke University law school in the worst years of the great depression. The second world war, he joined the u. S. Navy. You can see the photo of nixon as a young navy officer. He served with distinction in the pacific, getting the right equipment to the right place at the right time and was given a series of commendations by his commanders. He was also a very talented offr player turn on his hours and he had a great ability to bluff. That is a valuable quality and someone undertaking Foreign Policy at a high level. Been46 after he had demobilized from the navy, nixon ran for congress. You can see the poster from his first election campaign. Ii veteransld war were elected into congress and the senate. Was nixon, one was john f. Kennedy. One was joe mccarthy. Career,arly political nixon rose very rapidly through the ranks. He was an odd anticommunist. He worked very hard to
Im phillip ma. Were beginning what is usually one of the busiest weeks of Holiday Travel this year Health Officials are pleading with americans to stay home as covid cases surge to record levels. Despite the warnings, airports just saw their busiest weekend since the pandemic begin nbcs Blaine Alexander joins us from atlanta blaine, good morning. Reporter phillip, good morning to you we have heard those warnings from Health Officials, from the cdc for days now urging allamericans to stay home, not travel this week, but scenes from airports around the country show that many people are not listening and thats got dr. Anthony fauci now concerned about what this could look like after thanksgiving a direct and dire warning to travelers like these already packing airports ahead of the thanksgiving holiday. When you get a crowded plane, youre in a crowded airport, youre lining up not everybodys wearing masks. Friday and saturday the t processed more than 2 million travelers, the highest twoda
Its moderation tools to combat Election Related Violence by the system had little success when it was tried in other countries. Theyre just going through in the afternoon here in moscow youre watching r. T. International now there is growing resentment in europe at the moment over new rules aimed at combating the spread of coronavirus although countries have stopped short of returning to full lock downs people still flouting the measures that have been put in place there were riots in the spanish city of barcelona for example hundreds gathered in one of its main squares to condemn the state of emergency imposed across the country and people violate the nighttime curfew that came into force on sunday they also set bins on fire near the local parliament and there are similar scenes in italy today where several city so. Protests get out of hand in turin smoke bombs were let off and bottles hurled at police while in milan right offices resorted to to gas peter all of the ports now in europ
Perna serve this Community General the armys material for nearly four years leading 190,000 military, civilian and contractor employees with a mission to provide logistics, sustainment, maintenance for globally deployed army. General perna is a career logistician to estimate complex supply distribution and Maintenance Operations in multiple combat tours with on the joint force and serve as at the national supporting department of defense supply and Distribution Efforts so as this with the back and its easier when he was selected for this critically important position. General perna graduated from the Valley Forge Military Academy and has a masters degree in logistics from the Florida Institute of technology. General perna will provide introductory comments and then befuddled by dr. Hepburn, ahead of Vaccine Development. Following dr. Hepburn general perna will come back specifically to talk about Vaccine Distribution and then we will move into a questionandanswer period that ed and i a
Monuments. This is in washington d. C. And they hosted the event and provided the video. I am pleased to introduce todays discussion, during the last several years, how we remember and memorialize the civil war has been a topic in the United States and we have seen a renewed interest in these conversations in the recent weeks. At this site of Political Violence and national memory, we see our work as looking not only to the actions of the past but also how the passed informs to these circumstances throughout the country and the world, people raise questions about the purposes of the leaders who supported or profited from slavery, whether in richmond, boston, or birmingham, monuments and statues have become a flashpoint for the black lives matter movement. Since 2015, ford has held an annual Summer Institute set in stone, memory, monument, and myths that has explored questions of remembrance and memorialization. Each year, we find the spring has brought new and urgent crises that requir