Blocking the commonsense multihundred billion dollars measure that republicans have been ready to deliver for months. Now come first, all of my colleagues had a fine a fine thanksgiving well know that across the country we celebrated a thanksgiving, all of us, every american, unlike any in recent memory. Too many loved ones spent this holiday alone unable to join with loved ones out of concern for their safety. As painful as it is to refrain from seeing family and friends, these are tough choices that we sometimes have to make it and we need to maintain a result more than ever while the hope of a vaccine shimmers on the near horizon, were living through the worst stretch of the pandemic right now. Last friday for the first time over 200,000 new cases of government were reported in ina single day. The United States is averaging over 1 million new cases a week. Some 20 of of all patients now hospitalized in the United States have covid19. The worst andpa most unalterable part of this pan
He graduated from west point in 1844 commissioned into the first u. S. Jeb stewart drove his oum. He had ambition and there were tests coming if for him in the next weeks to see if he might be able to, umm, past those tests and seek more of the command, promotion, and fame he might have been seeking. And, finally, we come to the officer in the center, james brown stewart. Better known as jeb stewart. Hes the guy who kind of instigates and will carry it out. Quick overview on his life up to that point. He was born on february 6th, 1833. He attempted to enlist in the u. S. Military but was told he was too young. He spent two years at emory and henry college. In 1850 he received his appointment. During stewarts time there, robert e. Lee arrived in 1852 and served as the military academys superintendent. At the same time fitz lee arrived. Stewart was honored for his cavalry skill during his time at west point. He graduated 13th in a class of 46. He served in the u. S. Regular meant in texa
Us in person and online. Before i introduce our next speaker a shout out to folks who made today possible. Our technical director chris white, thank you so much for your work behind the camera, chris. Thank you to our symposium coordinators kevin pollack and dan welch. Unfortunately, because of the covid pandemic we had to postpone this years inperson symposium and all the work kevin and dan did to get ready for that weve postponed to next year. Tickets are available at this time but theyre the ones who stepped up to help make todays virtual symposium possible. Thank you for your work. I would like to introduce our next speaker, sarah kay bierle, the managing editor of emerging civil war, the one working behindthescenes to keep the blog up and going and make sure that all that free content is coming to you every day. Her work is absolutely invaluable to our organization. Sarah is the author of the emerging civil war series call out the cadet from the emerging civil war series, the batt
Good morning and welcome to this Commonwealth Club online program. I am Gloria Duffey president and ceo of the Commonwealth Fund and was honored to serve as the Deputy Assistant secretary of defense in the 1990s. Peer are many issues today surrounding National Defense in our military and to the military be used to quell domestic unrest such as the recent protests and should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and contemplating resuming nuclear testing. Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and their statues be removed from our public places. To address these questions and many more today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretary of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. The bipartisan secretary of defense secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book exercise of power american failures, successes and a new path forw
Should the military be used for domestic unrest such as the recent protests . Should the u. S. Be terminating many of our arms control treaties and even contemplating resuming Nuclear Testing . Should the names of Confederate Military leaders be removed from u. S. Military bases and other statue be removed from our Public Places . To address these questions and many more, today we will have a unique conversation between two recent secretaries of defense, doctor robert gates and general james mattis. As a bipartisan secretary of defense, secretary robert gates served under president george w. Bush and barack obama. He is the author of a new book, exercise of power americas failures, successes and a new path forward in the post cold war world. Doctor gates is an officer in the u. S. Air force and spent 27 years in the cia. He served as the cia director and became the first career officer in cia history to move from entrylevel employee to head the agency. Secretary gates served as a membe