Thank you very much. It is an honor to be with everybody and we are at the white house, there is no place like the white house. For those of you that this is the first time, i know exactly what you are thinking. I was here the first time and it is still something i will never forget so it is great to have you in the first lady and i are pleased to welcome everybody to this wonderful place to discuss the vital importance of safety and reopening americas schools. We want to reopen the schools. Everybody wants it. It, want it, but adds want kids want it. It is time to do it. Our mortality rate is at a level people dont talk about, but it is down tenfold, tenfold, so you are looking at deaths way down from this horrible china virus and it is a disgrace that it happened. Shouldnt have happened, but it did. Is coming back and coming back strongly. Jobs are setting records. Two months ago, they set the record and again, almost 5 million new jobs in the month, which is a record and broke our l
Randallism with this racial intent to scare or harm a person is a felony and so is the damage that was done to the vehicle so, yeah, were looking at a person who could looking at some felony charges against them. Reporter reaction from the neighborhood today ranged from fear to disgust. There is no place for that kind of thing in the society. I dont know people why they are doing that, you know. To have this written in the car was pretty scary. Reporter only 17, bro he says he is exhausted by the racism he has seen and doesnt want to give the vandals the satisfaction of an angry response. You cant really get shocked every time it happens. A reaction is what the people who did it want out of you. Reporter the graffiti has all been erased that is because after diminishing his investigation on sunday, the officer collected cleaning supplies from the Public Works Department and personally removed the racist messages. He just felt very strongly about what occurred arent wanted to make sure
Returned to the farm. Thats a theme that this country was founded on. If you go up to the rotunda in the capital and you look at the great painting of the tremble of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief and the Continental Army to the congress, the cincinnatus symbols are all do that painting because the Founding Fathers really believe this is what democracy entails. It meant that citizenship met any citizen should be called, could be called upon any time to serve his country or her country and any capacity including the greatest power. In the power belong to the people, therefore, power would be returned by those who held it for a time. Truman liked to say i try never to forget who i was, where he came from, and where would go back to. Thats the cincinnatus Team Obviously but it also shows that he knows who he was. He knew who he was and he was proud of who he was and the return to independence after he left the office of the presidency in 1953 was his way of
Good evening. I am Lauren Rosenberg with smithsonian associates. I would like to welcome you to this program. To our members, its your support that makes events like this possible. If you are joining for the first time, and equally warm welcome and invitation to explore the wide range of programs we offer. Now is the perfect time to talk off your cell phone or anything that may make noise. This past march marked the 50th anniversary of the u. S. Navy fighter weapon program. We welcome the programs founder, dan pederson. He formed he served in combat during the vietnam war with a flying crew on the uss hancock and three on the uss enterprise. He retired as a captain, having accumulated 6000 flight hours and 1000 flight carrier landings with 39 different types of aircraft. For those of you who know his story from the 1986 movie top gun, Jerry Bruckheimer is producing a sequel in 2020. His book is available for purchase and signing. Here to keep the conversation going is larry burke, cura
I was the one that was drafted because i was a senior. I ended up being the boss man in the initial phase of this and we can get into hour it was done shortly. One of the benefits to writing this book was it allowed me to think back. I do a come pparison with what know today, and i compare what i saw and what i see in writing about the navy at it existed today, and i think it did a pretty fair job i started in 1953, two jobs going to college, and everyone was breathing on my nec, and we went in the reserves. So there is a squadron. And i worked here is the first good one. I was working for a chief named brown and he was my mentor. Mentor is a keyword you will hear a lot from me. I carried his tool box and i got his coffee when i wanted and he spent an inordinate amount of time teaching me how to maintain those airplanes. We went on and it was right down here. Im in dc tonight, forgive me i make mistakes. But we had the first jet squadron. A young lieutenant. A twin compact. And they sa