Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome honored guests. House speaker nancy pelosi, accompanied by republican leader mitch mcconnell, republican leader kevin mccarthy, senator roy blunt, representative emanuel cleaver, the second and mr. Clifton daniel. Ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi speaker of the United States house of representatives. As speaker of the house, is my privilege to welcome you to the united capitol as we celebrate one of our nations finest president s, president harry truman. Theres only fitting that this son, independence, missouri, takes his rightful place here in the rotunda of our temple of democracy, the United States capitol. Now, at the time at this time, please rise, as you are able for the presentation colors and for the National Anthem anthem. Oh. Oh. Oh, say, can you see im standing. Im whats up. Oh, really is this time i. Whose drives im trying. Slides on. Im sorry. Oh so god sees. And the rock. Bombs bursting. On the eyes and im like still. O
Blunt, representative emmanuel cleveland the second, and mr. Clifton truman daniel. [applause] [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the honorable Nancy Pelosis speaker of the United States health of representatives. [applause] as speaker of the house, it is my privilege to welcome you to the United States capitol as we celebrate our nations finest president s, president harry truman. Its only fitting that this is in independence missouri takes his rightful place in the rotunda of our temple of democracy, the United States capitol. Now at this time, please rise as you are able for the presentation of colors and for the national anthem. Oh say can [inaudible] you see by the dawns early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilights last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars thru the perilous fight oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that sta
Joint chiefs of staff. Chairman brown general brown spoke about civilrights, diversity and inclusion in the military. This is about 20 minutes. [applause] general brown thank you, and good morning. As president truman once said, occurs when courageous leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Today we are here to celebrate 75 years of progress, only possible because resident truman and his administration seized the opportunity to change things to make america better. An in order that made it possible for ordinary americans to have so many opportunities. Thanks to general scott for the kind introduction. Its an honor to have someone who knows my parents, someone who served with my father, introduced me. Thank you so much. I want to thank the Truman Library institute for the opportunity, and for everyone that has worked to make the truman civilrights symposium possible. Thank you all in attendance, not yesterday, but over the course of the past three days to help us
Public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. Up next, a discussion on civil rights, diversity and inclusion in the military and talk about challenges ahead for the branches, affirmative action policies of the nations military academies in recruitment and retention. The Truman Library Institute Event last about an hour. Okay, good morning. Thank you all for being here. Im going to keep it super short so that we can get to the conversation. Of so just a few things. One, i am thrilled to be part of this event and to recognize the courage of president truman to sign executive order 9981. An order, frankly, that is the only reason i can take this stage today as a retired navy guy. But even more importantly, its the personal growth, trumans personal growth over his lifetime. Ive worked in the world of political science, and were talking lots about hyperpartisanship and polarization and how people are dug in on their positions. Truman
To protect the integrity of the dollar instead of the dual mandate that worries about employment and the value of the dollar. I want to unleash american energy. I want to pursue policies that will bring jobs back to the United States. We know how to do this. We did it before. Quite frankly, inflation is raging under the Biden Administration because of their policies. If i am president , i am going to move out to implement a plan that will bring real relief to American Families by lowering the cost of living. Reporter nikki haley in her speech place blame on republicans as well for inflation and the National Debt. Do you think the covid stimulus bills under the trumppence administration has any blame for the Current Situation with inflation and the National Debt . Mr. Pence president barack obama doubled the National Debt. The debt went up under our administration, for legitimate reasons. We had to deal with the worst pandemic in 100 years. I believe the resources we provided was essent