Covid solution. It was inevitable was inevitable that the coronavirus pandemic would be politicized and this is a tragedy that it was paid from the start i knew it was impossible to have a perfect response and we are facing a new virus that caused an entirely new disease. No one wanted to under react and as a result i fear the tendency would be to overreact and create Unrealistic Expectations regarding our ability to stop a highly contagious pathogen. The challenges facing us were daunting and our National Strategic stockpile have been reduced during the h1n1 pandemic and had not been replenished. It took time to develop reliable tests and even more time to Scale Production to meet the demand. The fact that a large percentage of people that become infected exhibited no symptoms made the coronavirus even more difficult to detect and contain. I have tried not to criticize the elected officials that have had the response ability to make very tough decisions with limited and highly imperfe
This is about an hour. Admiral, great to see you again. We are two days after veterans day and that was the occasion for this event. Publicre plenty of issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. With how yourt came by service. You came by it naturally, you grew up in a family of service. Tell me about your dad, who was an interesting person. Thank you forn the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I enjoy spending time with you and your students. I came by it naturally, my ii fireas a world war pilot and fighter flew spitfires, a british plane. We entered the war, we did not have planes so the british loaned us spitfires. My grandfather also served in world war i and in world war ii, he was an army surgeon. My dad, later in life as i was getting ready to join the service, he said i remember what got me in the service. When i was a young boy, i saw the soldiers heading off to france in world war i, board
Looks at responses to disasters in history with an emphasis on research and writing. Over the semester, we have examined various disasters from different perspectives. First of all, the psychological and physical problems from jamestown. Disasters, responses to fires, hurricanes, and epidemics in colonial america, famine suffered by the donner party en route to california, irish immigrants fleeing the potato famine and the ability to create new lives in this country, disaster tourism, the johnstown flood of 1889, the impact of the fire in new york city, and disaster art that emerged from the 1930s dust bowl. So, today, we are discussing david oceanfys Pulitzer Prize winning book polio an american story. You all received questions that i posted and im really interested in the topic because i also teach a seminar on the 1950s and of course thats when this takes place and i think just looking at polio, really, so many different issues that affected that decade. Before starting, though, i
Thank you for joining us for todays events. Featuring doctors. This is your first time joining us, my i have the honor of serving as the dean of the school of business. 2020 marks a very special year for this school. Its our 100th anniversary were celebrating 100 years purpose driven business education. Since our inception, we believed in the power of partnership to inform and lead change. So very much would like to thank the cavalli center for Global Security analysis and her wonderful partners, the museum of American Finance and cfa society of new york. Is cosponsoring todays conversation. One of the goals of this centennial series is to shine the light on the important history place in shaping the future. In the latest book, thanking unfreedom, black woman in u. S. Finance and for the new deal, she explores rich. Of financial innovation and his Transformative Impact on u. S. Capitalism. Todays session will take place in three parts. First, my colleague and friend, david, president a
There are plenty of public issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. And i want to start by talking about how you came by service, because you came by it naturally. You grew up in a family of service. Tell me about your dad, who was quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven first, thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii Fighter Pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane, because at the time when we entered the war, americans did not have planes to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. But my grandfather also served in world war i and in world war ii. He was an army surgeon. My dad, later in life as i was getting ready to join the service, he said, i remember what got me in the service. It was when i was