Ladies and gentlemen, my is jim byron and i have the honor of being the president and ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation, and i want to welcome you to the Richard Nixon library on this very wet day today. Thank you. Today, 50 years after the end of combat operations by American Forces in vietnam, we recognize Vietnam Veterans and the service that they provide to our country in uniform in the 1960s and seventies. And then after coming home, members of their community who went on to be forces for good and. And additionally we remember and pay tribute today to those who never came home or remain missing in action. Youll see throughout todays program, traditional elements of military ceremony represented by different branches of the United States military. And to begin id like to ask United States Army Chaplain William Williams to the invocation. Chaplain williams served in the army for 27 years in both infantry as enlisted man and as a member of the chaplain corps. He is currently the fa
Ladies and gentlemen, my is jim byron and i have the honor of being the president and ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation, and i want to welcome you to the Richard Nixon library on this very wet day today. Thank you. Today, 50 years after the end of combat operations by American Forces in vietnam, we recognize Vietnam Veterans and the service that they provide to our country in uniform in the 1960s and seventies. And then after coming home, members of their community who went on to be forces for good and. And additionally we remember and pay tribute today to those who never came home or remain missing in action. Youll see throughout todays program, traditional elements of military ceremony represented by different branches of the United States military. And to begin id like to ask United States Army Chaplain William Williams to the invocation. Chaplain williams served in the army for 27 years in both infantry as enlisted man and as a member of the chaplain corps. He is currently the fa
Country to protect all of the other freedoms that we enjoy. [applause] this is a time where conservatives need to focus on how we will lead america. Not just how we will lead each other. Too much is at stake. The future of our country, the future for our children and grandchildren is far too important for us to spend our time fighting with each other with the real battle is not a fight against liberals or democrats, it is a fight for the soul and future of this great republic. This is a fight for which all of us must know we have to engage. We must do it now. If this one thing i know, my time is up. Thank you and god bless you. [applause] here is a look live at the conference, underway in washington, d. C. Theyre wrapping up a panel on latin american government. We will join the group live when Newt Gingrich takes the podium. He will be introduced by his wife. Want to let you know the results from the straw poll. Rand paul came out on top, followed by texas senator ted cruz. 10 for thi
The great achievements of these men and women. I want to close, to reestablish a perspective on things because general eisenhower after the war in june 1945 returned to london to receive an award. His first remarks following the end of the war at the guild hall in london. You can see people standing on the facades of these buildings leaning out the windows to hear what this victorious general had to send. Troops a general eisenhower he deferred the credit and give it where it belongs. Im always reminded of that, these a gust moments when we run through these images in d. C. Lots of recognition on the part of the work of the monuments foundation, but it resounds the work of the monuments man. General eisenhower said this high sense of distinction i feel receiving this great honor is inescapably mingled with feelings of profound sadness. Humility must be the portion of any man here received acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends. He may have given everythi
And for whatever reason, i did this time see a story, and the reason for seeing the story is that every book, particularly in history, has what i like to call scaffolding, which is the structure that holds everything together and makes sense of it. This story has so many elements to it that there is no obvious scaffolding beyond the fact of the chronology, from 1939 to 1945. But within that, what do you do . And the second time around, i saw some scaffolding. Not all of it. It sort of evolved as i went along. But im very grateful to peter for being so persistent because at the end, i ended up with a book i had no idea i was going to write. And that is the one id like to tell you a little bit about. Why does it matter . It matters because world war ii literally shaped the world we live in today. It preserved at it easy to forget this because it sounds like a cliche but it preserved the world for democracy. World war i had the slogan that Woodrow Wilson called making the world safe for d