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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Conversation With Gordon Wood 20170220

[ applause ] thank you. Let me just start by asking, what sparked your interest, your passion for history . I believe you grew up in massachusetts near concord and a number of historic sites. Did that play a role in it . No, i dont think so. I just was interested in stories. I read a lot. I had a Terrible High School teacher, i must say, in i went to waltham high school, and he was horrible, but it didnt dampen my interest. I just read history and enjoyed it. But as dave said earlier, i had planned to go into the Foreign Service. I graduated from tufts. I was going to serve my three years at air force as a rotc and go to fletcher school. Its connected to tufts. Its part of georgetown. An fso, Foreign Service officer training school, but my experience and being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Conversation With Gordon Wood 20170411

Planned to go into the Foreign Service. I graduated from tufts. I was going to serve my three years in the air force as a rotc commitment and come back and go to Fletcher School of diplomacy, which is connected to tufts. Its part of georgetown. An fso, Foreign Service officer training school. But my experience in being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school and ive never regretted it at all. Any book that youve written that you felt was particularly challenging or perhaps you wanted to start off by finding or proving one point but along the way you found something quite different . Well, no, im not sure that i found something different. I had a sense already of the outline of the period t ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Conversation With Gordon Wood 20170411

Planned to go into the Foreign Service. I graduated from tufts. I was going to serve my three years in the air force as a rotc commitment and come back and go to Fletcher School of diplomacy, which is connected to tufts. Its part of georgetown. An fso, Foreign Service officer training school. But my experience in being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school and ive never regretted it at all. Any book that youve written that you felt was particularly challenging or perhaps you wanted to start off by finding or proving one point but along the way you found something quite different . Well, no, im not sure that i found something different. I had a sense already of the outline of the period t ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Conversation With Gordon Wood 20170411

Planned to go into the Foreign Service. I graduated from tufts. I was going to serve my three years in the air force as a rotc commitment and come back and go to Fletcher School of diplomacy, which is connected to tufts. Its part of georgetown. An fso, Foreign Service officer training school. But my experience in being arbitrarily treated by the federal government in the military soured me on working for the government, so i decided i changed my mind in japan to apply to graduate school and ive never regretted it at all. Any book that youve written that you felt was particularly challenging or perhaps you wanted to start off by finding or proving one point but along the way you found something quite different . Well, no, im not sure that i found something different. I had a sense already of the outline of the period t ....

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Transcripts For CSPAN House Session 20150304

Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. Mr. Gutierrez id like to congratulate the speaker and the republican majority for coming to their senses and allowing the house of representatives to pass a bill funding the department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year. Seems odd i would have to come to this well to congratulate the majority for funding one of the l ....

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