My career when i was a fourstar admirals initiating up the us Southern Command, peterma in charge of all activities south of the United States as the commander of us Pacific Command a very traditionalos position for senior admiral my boss wonderful by secretary gates called me up to say forget about the pacific we will send you to nato. Was the first and as far the only admirable to be a lien supreme allied commander in nato. Is just an accident of timing and fate and secretary gates decision. From a nato perspective i was the accidental admiral who became the supreme allied commander. Host the naming was an accident as well . Someone. So lets go way back i grew up in the marine corps family my father fought in korea and vietnam. I grew up in the environment going to Quantico High School and went on to the Naval Academy thinking it would be a marine Corps Officer after my first year the navy sends everybody out on a cruise so you go out on a ship i went out on a beautiful cruise around
All information. Representative ilhan omar, democrat of community, has a new becomebook out called. This is what america looks like. Thank you nor janing us. Two characters in your become, baba and abe. Who are the. Guest any grandfather and father. Abe is the word we use for dad in somali. And baba is the traditional word used in the middle east for father. And since i was born in his house, thats what his children called him and we continue to call him that as well. So, they were both father figures to me and so i continue to call them abe and baba. Host what were the first eight or so years or your life like . Guest peaceful. I had a really enjoyable childhood. I grew up in a household where we had not just my siblings and my father but my extend family lived with us, my uncles and my aunties and grandfather. My greatgrandmother was always around. And so it was a very loving environment. I was raised by educators and so education was a huge part of our life and we all loved learning
At columbia i hope we are back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. We will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat and try to wrap up in an hour using zoom best practice of not leaving you in front of your computer screen for too long a time, especially this time of day. For those of you new to the awards, we have a short video about j anthony with his prizes. People talk about book writing they almost always talk about the process of writing, sitting at the keyboard writing it down is in many respects not the
To get to 26000000. 00 jobless and just a month it is terrifying i know a lot of economists and the answer is they have no idea it would pay out you know if it was me. And i think our economy will start to pick up her substantially as soon as the states get open to say we. Just dont know because our country has to get back to work they want to get back to work. Also coming up former georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili is set to become a deputy Prime Minister of ukraine a comeback for a man who once went to war with russia but now says he wants peace with moscow. Also for peace with russia and the lower support of every step toward terms of peace will present the last because i think thats what the ukrainian people and then the nation will walk to the world but it takes tango to takes 2 to tango. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome. In a moment well move on to our main story the skyrocketing level of unemployment in the u. S. But 1st the c
Know if you know the name is this job is not enough because our country has to get back to work they want to get back to work. Also coming up former georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili is set to become a deputy Prime Minister of ukraine a comeback for a man who once went to war with russia but now says he wants peace with moscow. Also for peace with russia and our support of every step. To our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome in a moment well move on to our main story the skyrocketing level of unemployment in the u. S. But 1st the controversy over speculation by the u. S. President that injecting disinfectant might help to cure the coronavirus now lets be clear ingesting disinfectant is extremely dangerous and will not cure the virus President Donald Trump made the suggestion at his Daily Briefing in the white house and since then hes rolled back on his. Manson said he was being sarcastic but what he said went around the world and led to fier