No. Why is that . Theres no safe level of asbestos period. Its a carcinogen. Its a type one carcinogen and there should be no exposure. Just this past year, johnson and johnson ceo was asked whether asbestos is safe. He stated quote, i would agree that asbestos is considered unsafe. Im not an expert geologist or safety expert in that area but we would say yeah, its not safe. On october 18th, the fda announced it detected asbestos in j and j talcum powder. Whats the significance of this . To this day theyre finding asbestos when they go off the shelf. Its putting thousands, if not millions of people at risk in the future. Dr. Longo. Thats correct. Those rulesults verify our resus of finding asbestos in the products in the chinese mind chr mine which is the mine being used today. You tested historical samples. Yes. From what decade . From the 40s up to the 2000s as well as the current johnson and johnson products. What did you find . Overall, 65 of all the samples we tested were positive
Moment totake a mention a couple of additional arele who are here they three who came from vietnam who will be participating this afternoon and i think that for a number of reasons i want to introduce them including in reference to the past discussion, one of the key ways of talking about what has gone on, what is the harm of the war, is to have the faces and the voices of individual people and tran teortunate to have wan was an agent or an survivor will be part of agent orange survivor who will be on the panel this afternoon. Will beguyen fu talking about an effort to clear landmines and unexploded ordnance. Lai who is ao van victim of exploded and unexploded ordnance. I also want to mention two people who are not part of the book but who played a key role in helping to organize this panelence and the wednesday afternoon. That is terry province and John Mcauliffe from that vietnam peace memory she committee. We out peace commemoration committee. [applause] a great pleasure to chris ap
[indiscernible] two songs i wrote in the summer of 1965. Look up yonder in the sky, what is that i pray . A bird, a plane, a man insane, my president lbj. Hes flying high way up in the sky just like superman, i got a little piece of kryptonite, im gonna bring him back to land. I said, come out, lyndon, with your hands held high, drop your guns, baby, and reach for the sky. Got you surrounded and you aint got a chance. Gonna send you back to texas make you work on your ranch, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. He can call super woman and his super dogs. It sure wont do him no good i found out why from a russian spy he aint nothing but a comic book. Gonna pull him off the stands, clean up the land were gonna have us a brandnew day and what is more i got the fantastic four and spiderman to help him on his way i said come out, lyndon, with your hands held high drop your guns, baby, reach for the sky got you surrounded and you aint got a chance gonna send you back to texas, make you work on your ranch
Mothers at what is still considered the largest dinners ever held at the white house. As president nixon said, it rained all day and much of the evening, and the south long was south lawn was soggy when the guests started arriving for dinner. Many of the womens long dresses got splattered with mud, but nothing would dampen the spirits of that night. In the first year of his presidency, nixon met with the wives and mothers of the pows during the christmas season. He wrote that the women spoke respectfully and passionately about the need to get their husbands and sons returned home to american soil. From that time on, each pow was an individual to me, obtaining their release became a burning cause. Our distinguished speaker on this memorial day will tell this important story. Her name is heath hardage lee. She is a historian, writer, and museum curator, and holds a ba in history with honors from davidson college, and an ma from the university of virginia. A 2017 robert j curatorial fello
On this memorial day we honor the follow the fallen. We are we honor those who were killed in action during the vietnam war. President nixon was commanderinchief. This week marks the 46th anniversary of when the president and first lady welcomed the american prisoners of war held captive in vietnam, and their spouses and their mothers. It is still considered one of the largest dinners ever held at the white house. As president nixon said, it rained all day and much of the evening. Many of the womens long dresses got splattered with mud, but nothing would dampen the spirits of that night. With the wives and mothers of the pows during the christmas season. He wrote that the women spoke respectfully and passionately about the need to get their husbands and sons returned home to american soil. From that time on, each pow was an individual to me, obtaining the release became a burning cause. Our distinguished speaker on this memorial day will tell this important story. Her name is heath har