[background sounds]ladies and ge Welcome Supreme Court associate justice, escorted by kraken Foundation Institute for chairman fred ryan. [applause]. To have good evening everyone. My name is john irish and had the honor of being an executive director of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for coming this evening. If you would in honor of our men and women in uniform who protect our freedoms around the world, please stay on and join me in the pledge of allegiance. Pledge of allegiance to the flag of the nine states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation on weve god indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you and please be seated. Before you get started like to take those moment to recognize some special guest we have with us this evening. And i will begin with our board of trustees and we have with us governor pete wilson and his terrific white gal. [applause]. From North Carolina all of the way here mr. Been set in
Audiences in europe. The word love the western sectors went into its first week. Necessitated by the cold shortage, machines and the men who run them stood idle. Prospects for normal working and Living Conditions looked dark. Transportation was chaotic as each new day brought new hardships to the three western sectors. Cut off from their radios come a people gathered at state corners to hear the u. S. Operated loudspeakers. Everyone asked the same question. Where is the coal . The answer lay in homestead where train after train waited for the soviets to overcome their now famous technical difficulties. But the latest Progress Report issued by marshalls awful ski was merely the soviets are taking measures to repair the railroads. Meanwhile, the western allies were continuing their own measures. Measures to break the russian blockade. Here, general sir brian robertson, British Military governor, inspects operations at one field near hanover, as english planes load for the run to berlin.
Discussing Herbert Hoover, some things he did to alleviate suffering in germany, which remember, had been a big enemy of the allies of the u. S. One of the things i enjoyed so much doing the research is seeing his compassion for people that were very unpopular, and otherslity to encourage to also feel that compassion and save millions of lives. Here is the book. Im going to start by telling you about the british blockade. Thet when the war started, British Government started and interdiction of goods started an interdiction of goods. This blockade prevented many things from entering the country, including food and fertilizer. And since then, over the past century, scholars have discussed this. There are scholars who say the blockade had no impact whatsoever. Other scholars argue it had a huge impact on germany. I started this book because i wanted to ask the question, what were Living Standards actually like in germany . This debate that has gone on the last century began much earlier.
Editorinchief of the hill, the impeachment inquiry ramped up with Trump Administration officials. Who is set to testify in the coming week . Bob we are going to have a number of people. Is one. Ll she used to be a diplomat for the Trump Administration. , shes going to testify knows what is going on in europe. Inovich testified today, the state department tried to block her, she was a Career State Department employee, she was subpoenaed, the House Democrats said the subpoena forced her to testify, but she was clearly eager to testify. Is anotherlence, he one whose texts were released recently, he is a trump donor and the state department did block his testimony, but it looks like he will testify next week. Host are we getting any timeline from Democratic Leaders on an Impeachment Vote . Bob no, and that is something our members are asking about. Certainly i think you will see something this year, but the question is not only timing, but, is it going to be about ukraine and obstruction o
Apparently you guys knew about it earlier in the week, because obviously this is a team out of austin that has come to cover it. Fantastic. Im tickled to death they could it is taped. The idea, i think, is they will send a tape back to d. C. And it will be run unedited, unfiltered, which is the way i prefer it. So whoever runs it, whoever is responsible for that, thank you for letting us have access to the facility again. It is terrific. I will talk about some things in d. C. , then get going. The only thing congress has to do year in and year out is fund the government. We do that through the appropriations process. Today is october 7, today is the seventh day of the new fiscal year. We should have gotten all the appropriations work done at least before the end of september, and we didnt. Which is not unusual. Congress usual doesnt get that work done. Fiscal 19, we did get about 70 of the spending plan done before the end of september, which meant that the department of defense, the l