One of the most seminal days of my life was november 22, 1963. As an eightyearold, i learned of the assassination of president kennedy. It isnt unusual for someone like me or anyone of my generation to remember where he or she was, but it seemed to me to change something, and from he developed a fascination. As i grew up, my friends were andrested in captain kirk the new frontier and i was interested in jfk in the old frontier. Lookingdent, i had been , and as a washington correspondent as well, as a way into the kennedy story can story. There were studies, heavy amoirs, there was scarcely part of jfks legacy that had not been dissected and expected inspected and examined. I wondered if there was something new to say. Then i came upon, innocence, these two days in june. We are on the eve of the anniversary. What could i say that was new . When i thought about it, i said to myself, my goodness, two extraordinary speeches, one at in then university morning, one on civil rights in the eve
U. S. Troops and the debate against military bases named after confederate soldiers. Chairman smith i call the meeting to order. I welcome our witnesses, secretary of defense esper and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff milley. We appreciate you being here today. I do have to read an Opening Statement here about procedure in light of the fact that we do have members who are participating remotely in his in this hearing, in accordance with house rules. So i will do that and then a couple other programming notes and we will get started. I would like to welcome members who are joining todays markup remotely. Those members are reminded that they must be visible on screen within the Software Platform for the purposes of Identity Verification when joining their andeedings, establishing maintaining decorum, participating, and voting. We will not be voting, but participating members must use the Software Platform video function while attending the proceedings unless they experience connecti
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