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mike working? the mike is working. my name is sherry mueller and it is my privilege to service as president of the public diplomacy council and to welcome each of you in this room to the first monday forum, a monthly event that public diplomacy council cohosts with a public diplomacy alumni association. and the university of southern california annual annenberg center for leadership, communication, and policy. and also, just to correct, i saw the president here, it is the public diplomacy association of america. we got it, i promise. all three organizations are really pleased to cohost our special guest, dr. vivian walker, who will be introduced by one of our board members, . botch in a few minutes peter kovach in a few minutes. we are very grateful to george washington university, they are renovating the normal room that we work with and i appreciate the patience of all of you. we are grateful to the elliott school and anthony desantis who is here. anthony, for all th ....
the second time addressing the members of the press club was in support of the documentary film brothers at war. and a third time as john said four years ago, when we first launched the foundation. so i guess i haven t burned any bridges at the press club yet. you keep asking me back. i would like to speak today about how far the foundation has come in those four years with the work the foundation is doing and what the future looks like as we continue to grow and i would like to emphasize how important it is to have nonprofits in the military support space as the military men and women continue to confront the dark forces of this world on many fun with long and many fronts with long and very tough deployment. at first i would like to acknowledge a few people here today, one of our board members. thank you for coming. i appreciate you being here . [applause] i have a very distinguished guest that john introduced, a friend of mine that is here today, general livingsto ....
it is out there. i will not discuss that today. i would like to but i will not. the point is, it is hard now, it is much more fun and i am a big the lever although we have sean and so many people who have done so well and have built really and industries in brilliant businesses doing network radio. my has always been live in local and immediate. i have always liked this small city here as my home turf. i think of it as my home. my point is that it has changed. it is not going to change back. we know that it is going to be owned most of the time, most stations will be owned by people who have a lot of stations managers who have more than one station to run. salespeople involved in more than one type of programming all that stuff. it does not change the dynamic of the business. live in local, it has to go back to that no matter what part of the business you are running because eventually, it is about a guy who has a show room to sell cars or a storefront he wants people t ....
welcome to the national press club. my name is john hughes. i am an editor for our breaking news desk in washington, and i am the president of the national press club. our guest today is actor -humanitarian given sunnis gary sinise. he will discuss challenges facing america s servicemen and women and what can be done to improve their lives and support their loved ones. but first, i want to introduce our distinguished head table. this group includes press club members and guests of our speaker. from the audience s wright, president of d.c. media connections publisher of stars and stripes, defense reporter for politico and cochair of the national press club s young members committee. amy fickling, editor with one communications news, the staff writer for marine corps times. jim livingston, a medal of honor recipient and guest of the speaker. [applause] john hughes: the chairman of the press club speakers committee the washington bureau chief for the buffalo news, ....
afghan government is taking to identify trends among afghan military personnel being trained by the u.s.. this house oversight subcommittee hearing is just under an hour and a half. i would note for the record, the mysterious tax reform bill is still not unveiled to us. we are waiting breathlessly for that. i would like to ask, i note the presence of our colleague from california, and ask unanimous ssa be allowed to fully participate today. radical islamic terrorists killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children. these terrorists used afghanistan as a safe haven and refuge. these terrorists spent years in afghanistan plotting, waiting for the chance to strike us at home. throughout the 1990 s, the american people watched as the united states suffered terror attacks in new york city, in east africa, and against our uss cole. the failure to act in the run-up to 9/11 caused a more devastating attack. it had become a useful staging ground. american forces responde ....