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About this change. Good afternoon. I am very excited to introduce the next speaker. Im going to share a personal to exemplify his passion for Theodore Roosevelt. I entered jerrys orbit when we serve together as instructors in jacksonville, florida. Career i was in my negotiating orders for a followon to her. For background, this tour is unique for officers. Areandbased aviators, we sent to seek to learn real knowledge in the navy. For example, officer on the deck in the airconditioned bridge sounds good. Sunny san diego or florida or the deployment schedule. A nice med cruise would suffice. As a lieutenant commander, jerry had already completed his tour. For teddyere his zeal roosevelt became apparent. When asked about his carrier assignment he said, Theodore Roosevelt, no question. I wouldve taken any job to deploy on tr. If you needed a working party to scrape barna ....
Time processing backlogged mail for american serviceman from europe. A Young Americans stood in front of number 10 downing street in the mid fifties as unfold man with a cigar came out the door. The Young American turned to him and said, mister Prime Minister, mr. Prime minister, tell us the secret of your success. The Prime Minister premised or Winston Churchill replied, study history. Study history. For him it light all the secrets of state craft. You heard a great phrase. Theres nothing you can do about having a 20 or 22yearold body, but there is no excuse for you not having a 5000 year old mind. It is at your fingertips. But let us continue to look back so we can see forward. I am pleased to introduce t ....
Jim harper and. Good to be here. Im just delighted you could join us. Also with us this evening is mark salter and the book is, ive got it somewhere. We have to sign here but this book is the luckiest man life with john mccain and i can say truthfully that jim and i have beenfascinated with it. I didnt expect to read every word because my reading is so bath and once i started i just couldnt put it down. Thats kind of you tosay, thank you. We did a book event with senator mccain in 2005 and i am liking. I know you did seven books, coauthored withyou and do you remember which one . Theres a book oncharacter and destiny. We saw thousands of copies and its a pleasure to work with senator in his office staff. When we read signed copies they would be but so i found it a little strange to be without him after spending time with him. The other thing i like to say before i turn it over to jim was i was really surprised to discover the mccain familymississippi group. I think i just assumed that ....
Mr. Axelrod admiral, great to see you again. We are two days after veterans day and that was the occasion for this event. There are plenty of public issues right now that i want to ask you about, but i want to defer that for a moment and talk about service itself. And i want to start by talking about how you came by service, because you came by it naturally. You grew up in a family of service. Tell me about your dad, who was quite an interesting person. Adm. Mcraven first, thank you for the invitation to join you today, this is terrific. I certainly enjoy spending time with you and the students of the iop. You are right, i came by it naturally. My father was a world war ii Fighter Pilot. Flew spitfires, actually, which was a british airplane, because at the time when we entered the war, americans did not have planes to take on the german messersmith, so the british loaned us spitfires. Dad flew that for about two years during the w ....