Nothing. When you realize theyre dead, what do you do . I just kind of said a prayer over each one of them. I grew up out on the farm, rode horses as much as i could. And worked with cattle. My mom had a book that what your career would be what you wanted to grow up to be. Mine was always a police officer, firefighter or a soldier. It was december of 1982 i wanted to be in the infantry because thats where you get to do the fun stuff. When i got out of the military i started working as a police officer. And after that i picked up a job as chief of police in a small town. And then moved onto contract. When i got to benghazi, i was going to be there for 60 days. It was my first time into libya. I remember walking through our university and there was an Army Recruiter and he picked me out of the crowd and he said, hey, what are you going to do after college . I said that looks pretty tough. Pretty tough to get in. A lot of people cant do it. I want to do that. In 2003 i was medically disch
Nothing. When you realize theyre dead, what do you do . I just kind of said a prayer over each one of them. I grew up out on the farm, rode horses as much as i could. And worked with cattle. My mom had a book that what your career would be what you wanted to grow up to be. Mine was always a police officer, firefighter or a soldier. It was december of 1982 i wanted to be in the infantry because thats where you get to do the fun stuff. When i got out of the military i started working as a police officer. And after that i picked up a job as chief of police in a small town. And then moved onto contract. When i got to benghazi, i was going to be there for 60 days. It was my first time into libya. I remember walking through our university and there was an Army Recruiter and he picked me out of the crowd and he said, hey, what are you going to do after college . I said that looks pretty tough. Pretty tough to get in. A lot of people cant do it. I want to do that. In 2003 i was medically disch
Today which is the heart of what we all talk about, Public Diplomacy. And you can go back a century to the beginning of the u. S. Governments First Official formal messaging, world war i, john brown did a program about that last year. After world war ii and during the cold war we had education on cultural exchanges very much on the floor and today one of president obamas signature efforts, the Young African Leaders Initiative is bringing hundreds of African Leaders to washington to meet with the president and others today and tomorrow. And then there is the social and digital revolution and media. And that is something which continues to unfold. We have an announcement most recently, i believe thursday is the latest iteration of the innovation in u. S. Messaging this time to attempts to head off recruiting by isis and other terrorists groups appealing to emotion. You may have seen that in the friday the New York Times and other papers. This is a quickly changing field and we have someb
For more information on this weekends 48 Hour Television schedule, visit us online at booktv. Org. Kenneth timmerman argues that the benghazi attack was an iranian statesponsored terrorist action pulled off by professional fighters. He says the scandal will end up being worse for president obama than the iran contra scandal was for president reagan. This is about 50 minutes. [applause] well, thank you, mark, for those kind words. Thank you, david, for this invitation. Its a pleasure to be back here again in this gathering. Benghazi was a night of a heroes of heroes, of heroism, and it was a night of cowardice. The heroes were the navy seals, former navy seals, ty woods, Glenn Doherty, who put their lives on the line to save their fellow americans that night. Those who acted with cowardice did so far away from benghazi in washington d. C. Failing to live up, in my opinion, to their legal, moral and also political responsibilities. The two people in washington who i believe have the grea
Mla, thank you very much. Thank you, thank you. Otto santa ana, author of juan in a hundred come it takes look at the latinos on the news. This is about half an hour. In now on booktv, we want to introduce you to ucla professor, otto santa ana. Professor santa ana, what do you teach at ucla . Guest ironman chicano and chacon of studies. Host what courses are you teaching . Guest i teach courses in language and media, linkage in the classroom. I teach a course on political humor. I teach courses on language all aspects of language that are socially relative. Host your book that we want to talk about on booktv is juan in a hundred the representation of latinos on network news. Here is the cover of the book. Before we get started, i want to ask you what does the word latino name . Guest latino. The team now with all the people who are of latin american origin who are noncitizens of the United States. Host and you are professor of chicano chicano studies. Guest chacon that in chicano means