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talking specifically about the six-day war, i came to the understanding or at least this is my argument that you should see the war in a global context because even before we re starting to deal with what nasser did on the 13th of may and why he acted the way he did when he received that memo, webbed think about the fact we should think about the fact that the whole developing world was experiencing a severe economic crisis at the time, and all the countries that fought the six-day war were developing countries. some were more developed than others, israel more than egypt, but they were all developing countries. and what happens in the mid 60s is basically the end of a business cycle. a decade beforehand, in the mid 50s, everybody looked, let s say, in places like the u.s., in washington, in new york, even in moscow. they looked at the developing world like people looked at china until two years ago. or beforehand the way people looked ....
doctor laron was a great pleasure to welcome you to this event. i m a christian and i directed the history and public policy program at the woodrow wilson center, a program that tries to provide historical context to current public policy issues in washington. many of you are familiar with one of the subprojects of the history of public policy, the program we have run here for 25 years. more than 25 years. a project that s devoted to uncovering, collecting, translating, disseminating, making accessible and discussing new evidence from what used to be the former communist world archived but it s crept to what now include really all hard to access archives around the world. we are delighted to launch with this event today, a series of activities discussing, on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the six-day war. we will have today the launch of perhaps the most important new publication of international history to come out on the war. i thank you are all in for a trea ....
have on our minds and in our prayers senator mccain. he s going through some recovery right now and won t be able to come back this week. so that will change the way we re doing business a little bit. but nonetheless, he ll be back with us very soon. and our committee meets this morning considering the nomination i should say, the renomination of general sell have f selva. since we ve already been through this drill on the eight required questions, we re going to forego that. i m assuming you haven t changed your mind since the last time we asked you the eight questions. is that correct? that is correct. any family you d like to introduce? i do. i ll do that in my opening statement. that s good. your record of service to our nation is well known to this committee. your first two years a the joint chiefs of staff have been marked by great challenges in our national security, the advance of isis in the middle east, russian aggression in ukraine and actions aga ....
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the great valley of central california lies almost in the center of the state. it s more than 400 miles long and 60 miles wide and except for the narrow opening at san francisco bay, it is surrounded i ranges of high mountains. a long time ago, this whole area was a great gulf, an arm of the pacific ocean. many swift streams flow into it from the surrounding mountains. rushing mountain streams like this carried millions of tons of earth down into the gulf. now what happened after that went on for thousands of years? rock materials from the mountains were dumped and the gulf and spread out by rivers and streams. gradually, the gulf fills up with these materials. now all that is left of the old gulf is san francisco bay. after countless thousands of years, the great central valley was formed, a valley filled with deep, fertile soil and drained by two river systems. the sacramento, said by many tributaries, flows from the northern end of the great valley to the delta lan ....