The United States operations in world war one. We also have the pleasure of being joined and one of the museums memorial esteemed members theyve. He will speak about his ample experiences with railways and the midwest and his connection to the museum memorial. Without further ado please help me in welcoming, dave everett. applause thank you very much camille. What a pleasure to join you today. We have a great guest and doctor rudy daniels who will join us. Ive been with the Railroad Industry for about 23 years now. I initially started with cbs x, and i have quite an experience with the military as well, i went to west point in 88 and i was nine years tactical commander and then joined csx railroad. Was there five years. Then i came to kansas city, 14 years. I was able to make it up to the rank of chief operating officer there. I had a wide variety of experiences, both in the u. S. , midwest and in mexico. A lot of the development there, even down to panama. The pandemic canal railway.
Listen to richard haas the prolific author and academically came out with another book entitled the world. A brief history and 300 pages its departure but i want to start because only after you turned and manuscript the world was confronted by the covidien pandemic and since that happened this crisis has highlighted so many of the themes and concepts that you tackle in the book. I just want to ask you out right what does the pandemic tell us about the world right now . Thank you for doing this also thank you to everyone on this call we hope everybody is well and safe as we get through this one day at a time its like groundhog day. With the pandemic tells us first and foremost is that the world matters and that is obvious were member of the council on Foreign Relations the world matters and what happens around the world doesnt stay there now its a small city in china where the virus broke out spread through china and then to the United States and elsewhere around the world, 9 11 it was
Frequent morning joe contributor and our fearless leader, president of the nonpartisan council on Foreign Relations in 2003 but today we are here to listen to Richard Haass the prolific author and academic who had come out with another book entitled not very ambitiously, slightly ambitiously the world a brief introduction, in about 300 pages. He calls it a departure from his previous books. I want to start because it was only after you turned in the manuscript that the world was confronted by the covid19 pandemic and in the two months since that happened this crisis has highlighted so many of the themes and concepts you tackle in the book so i want to ask outright what does the pandemic tell us about the world right now . Guest thank you for doing this and thanks to everyone on this call. I hope everybody is well and safe as we all get through this one day at a time, one groundhog day at a time. But i think the pandemic tells us first and foremost that the world matters. A member of th
Richard wears many hats. Of ambassador. And the future of afghanistan. Frequent morning joe contributor and of course our fearless leader the president of non counsel for relations. We are listening to Richard Haass the author and academic who has just come out with yet another book the world a brief history. He calls it a little bit of a departure. I want to start richard because it was only after you turned in the manuscript that the world was confronted by the covid19 pandemic and in the roughly two months since that happened they had highlighted so many of the teams in concepts. What does the pandemic tell us what is the pandemic tell us about the world right now. Thanks also to everyone on this call. Needless to say i hope everybody is well. As we all get through this one day at a time when groundhog day at a time. What i think the pandemic tells us first and foremost is that the world matters and that is an obvious thing for member of the council on foreign relations. The world m
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