Now were going toint dues our head table. Please hold your applause until everyone has been introduced. The head table is usually reserved for members of the club , our guests, and guesses of our headlineser speaker. Going from my far left, mike ith, c. E. O. Of green smith p. R. Nabbling press clubHeadliners Team member. Jim noon, vietnam navy veteran and commander of the American Legion nabbling press clubheadliners pl press club, which is founded by general pershing. Myron, my predecessor National Press Club President , 107th president of vet , a vietnam veteran as well. The honorable john elliott, who i have been chasing around capitol hill and all kinds of places for almost 20, 25 years. Way too many years. John is the assistant secretary for public and Intergovernmental Affairs at the United States department of Veterans Affairs. Katelyn kenny, producer at cbs radios connecting vets dotcom. Thomas murfirks acting undersecretary for benefits at the u. S. Department of Veterans Aff
Spoke about Veterans Health care issues in light of this upcoming veterans day holiday. Speaking at the National Press club, this is an hour. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. I know that was a purposeful gavel, wasnt it . Welcome to the National Press club are where we have the trademark motto, the worlds leading professional organizations for journalists. My name is jeff. News editor for the americas with Al Jazeera Media Network and 110th president of the National Press club. Today, were pleased to have as our headliners luncheon speaker, dr. Shulkin, the ninth secretary of Veterans Affairs. First of all, i would like to ask you to please turn your mobile devices to vibrate. Why vibrate instead of off . Because we do encourage you to tweet the proceedings and questions to pressclubdc using npc live. Using the npc live. Now, were going to introduce our head table. And please hold your applause until everyone has been introduced. The head table is usually reserved for members of t