Author and Journalist Bob Woodward at an event hosted by politics and prose at the synagogue. This is one hour and a half. [cheering and applause] good evening. [inaudible] on behalf of everybody and those folks here welcome and thank you very much for coming. We had tnt always enjoy joining forces with six and i for author events and the synagogue and Cultural Center is now 15 years old and founder and staff deserve credit. [applause] they deserve a lot of credit for transforming the space into the vibrant Community Institution it is today. We are delighted to be hosting jodi and megan. [applause] they are two New York Times reporters who reported on Harvey Weinsteins extensive sexual abuse in their book is the riveting revealing account of how they developed their blockbuster story and its consequences in spurring the Metoo Movement. As a note in their preface in the wake of the weinstein expoee which broke in october 2017 it wasnt if it was is a dam wall had come down. Many women no
And we are now 15yearsold and the founders and staff deserve a lot of credit. [applause] into the vibrant Community Institution that it is today we are delighted to be hosting. [applause] they reveal that the abuse and the book she said as the riveting account of how they developed their blockbuster story and its consequences in the movement. As they note in their process that broke in october of 2017 it was as if a wall had come down. Many women not just in this country but around the world stepped forward to tell their own stories about mistreatment. In addition to the impact of the reporting, the way they went about confirming the stories that others before them have tried, provides a terrific case study of what goes into the first investigative journalism. People often think such just fall into the laps of reporters when in reality what is involved in is a lot of painstaking reporting running into dead ends, coaxing details out of reluctant sources, spanning out documents, substant
It is my pleasure and my honor to introduce our keynote speaker who is the assistant secretary of the army. He assumed his position following confirmation by the u. S. Senate in mid january of this year. His responsibilities include supervising Manpower Personnel and reserve Component Affairs to the department of the army and is the principal advisor of the policy of human resources, training, readiness, military health sales, equal opportunity in marketing among others which makes it striking that he finds time in his schedule to come talk with us today and we are grateful for that. Dr. Wardynski is a graduate of the Us Military Academy and hold same masters of Public Policy and a phd in policy analysis. During his 30 year career he served as a special weapons officer within the United States and in korea. He spent 10 years as an associate member of economics where he was also the director of the us armies office of economic and Manpower Analysis advising Senior Leaders on officer ret
Mobilization, military health affairs, for structure, equal opportunity and marketing among others, which is more striking hes found time in his schedule to come here and talk to us today and were very grateful for that. A 1980 graduate, policy john f. Kept from Harvard University and phd from policy from rand graduate school. During his 30 year army career he served as a special weapons officer in germany within the United States and korea and he spent ten years as an associate professor of economics at west point where he also was the director of the u. S. Armys office of manpower and analysis advising Senior Army Leaders on Office Retention and marketing. My favorite piece of this introduction is that he created the Award Winning stateoftheart Americas Army game which served as a Key Recruiting tool for the service as well as the virtual army experience. Im expecting that you should all ask him questions about that aft after. Excuse me. Among his military awards and decorations, ser
Heavy shower and thoerunderstor. This is going t make its way into northern Howard County shaded in green. Ill talk about thao in a second. Uth of culpepper and crossing over into maryland, tracking those two storms as well, heavy rain and a bit ofig lning. None of the storms severe but definitely have the potential of going there. Big picture does show its not atst us. This system th causing the disturbance, ats causing all these storms, its actually going to minder in our area through thursday. Yeah. So the impacts were expecting as we head through the afternoon. Heavy rain, winds for ure, and not look at any real tornado threat today, but we could see some small hail out there. Now, as we continue to move through the evening, im going to keep a close eye on the storms. Do i want you to know that some of the counties including atederick county are under a flash flood wch. More details on tat to could. Erika . Thank you so very much. We encourage you to download our nbc washington app