[inaudible conversations] welcome. I serve as president of the Jesse Helms Center. Located in North Carolina just outside of charlotte, we are a 501 c 3 nonprofit that houses youth programming as well as hosting lectures with the Heritage Foundation and others throughout the state and the country. So why the homes centered like . Sure jesse helms and served in the senate for 30 years. In 1994, he became chair of the Senate Finance committee, becoming the second North Carolina to do so. He was a leader, a top leader of the movement and he, along with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were instrumental in winning the cold war and defeating communism. Matteroffact, Margaret Thatcher wrote, jesse helms record as a Freedom Fighter is unmatched. He was also wellknown as a bipartisan center. He and joe biden were Close Friends and to this day, Vice President biden still talks fondly of his relationship with helms. And we refer to in the archives as love letters that joe biden and helms shar
[inaudible conversations] welcome. I serve as president of the Jesse Helms Center. Located in North Carolina just outside of charlotte, we are a 501 c 3 nonprofit that houses youth programming as well as hosting lectures with the Heritage Foundation and others throughout the state and the country. So why the homes centered like . Sure jesse helms and served in the senate for 30 years. In 1994, he became chair of the Senate Finance committee, becoming the second North Carolina to do so. He was a leader, a top leader of the movement and he, along with Margaret Thatcher and Ronald Reagan were instrumental in winning the cold war and defeating communism. Matteroffact, Margaret Thatcher wrote, jesse helms record as a Freedom Fighter is unmatched. He was also wellknown as a bipartisan center. He and joe biden were Close Friends and to this day, Vice President biden still talks fondly of his relationship with helms. And we refer to in the archives as love letters that joe biden and helms shar
Ladies and gentlemen, my is jim byron and i have the honor of being the president and ceo of the Richard Nixon foundation, and i want to welcome you to the Richard Nixon library on this very wet day today. Thank you. Today, 50 years after the end of combat operations by American Forces in vietnam, we recognize Vietnam Veterans and the service that they provide to our country in uniform in the 1960s and seventies. And then after coming home, members of their community who went on to be forces for good and. And additionally we remember and pay tribute today to those who never came home or remain missing in action. Youll see throughout todays program, traditional elements of military ceremony represented by different branches of the United States military. And to begin id like to ask United States Army Chaplain William Williams to the invocation. Chaplain williams served in the army for 27 years in both infantry as enlisted man and as a member of the chaplain corps. He is currently the fa
Please welcome governor ron desantis. [applause] a thank you. Its good to be in Southern California. Thanks so much. Its great to be here. I didnt know if i was allowed to. Im close to disneyland thats okay. We are excited to be here. We dont need teleprompters we will just let it rip and have a good time. We just got a taste of Southern California traffic. I did an interview for the belmar show and i guess its somewhere in hollywood. We drove from there to here and i dont know how many miles it was but it took about two hours to get here so we saw bumpertobumper and we were able to w do that which i know a lot of people in Southern California but ihe also remember we got into town at the Reagan Library wednesday and my wife andgo i got into town in southen california on sunday night and went to an event at the vfw and that was my intro to california. I was born and raised in florida. Id never spent time in california in any meaningful way. I was a naval officer and got orders to Naval
Learn to count to keep my mind occupied. Im counting 0 to 1,000 and 1,000 to 0. 80 minutes into the 90minute flight we bank to the south and im counting 556, 557, 558. As im counting for some reason i remember to quote from george w. Bush on 9 11 freedom itself was attacked this morning by a faceless coward. And freedom will be defended. And i kind of got goose bumps and how in the world did i just remember that . And i then i thought forget counting. I started to say that over and over again. Freedom was attacked this morning. After weeks of training 82 minutes into the training, im like, im on this mission and were going to kill him. For god and country. Geronimo. Good evening. Im peter doocy. Over the next two nights, you will meet one of americas bravest warriors. For more than a decade he served through multiple wars and Dangerous Missions too numerous to count. He served as a navy s. E. A. L. , a member of the famed s. E. A. L. Team 6 and on the night of may 1st, 2011 he was a pa