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Leadership during the crisis. Foreign leaders who influenced events during the cold war years as well as the continuing threat of nuclear war. The Georgia Historical Society hosted the interview and provided the video. We are here to talk about the called war at 75. It marks the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the cold war immediately after world war ii in 1945. You attended georgia tech. Greta van susteren graduated from emory university. Served in the coast guard. Came back to georgia, practiced law. Served in the Georgia House of representatives. You were elected to the United States senate in 1972 and served for 24 years until you left in 1996 including eight of those years as chair of the Senate Armed Services committee. Since retiring fro ....
Service. Good evening my fellow citizens. This government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the soviet military buildup on the island of cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has t established the fact that afa series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a Nuclear Strike capabilityea against the western hemisphere. Upon receiving the first preliminary hard information of this nature last Tuesday Morning at 9 a. M. , i directed that our surveillance be stepped up. And having now confirmed and completed our evaluation of the evidence and our decision on a course of action, this government feels obliged to report this new crisis to you in fullest detail. The characteristics of these new missile sites indicate two distinct types of installations. ....
Back to about roughly a year ago. Just looking at that, from that point on, we have had 1000 point climbs seems every few months. Would be in this case a little more than a month since crossing 23,000. If we cross 24,000, it would be the fifth 1000 point climb in the dow, since this year. Since the president was elected a little over year ago, sixth time weve seen that happen. Appreciable advance, that at this point has a lot to do with tax cuts and optimism they are going to happen. But there is aggressive timeline here that is, has to follow exactly. Chad pergram following that very, very closely. Chad, what can you tell us . Sometime 2 00 this afternoon is when the United States senate will have a vote to proceed to the tax cut bill. They have to vote to get on to the bill. At that point as you said it triggers a 20hour clock of debate. This is under the special process of budget reconciliation. Why is that important . Well, bud ....
Guidance prior to now the unveiling of its budget request. We are thrilled to have decent beginning our discussion today. He has one of the longer titles but one of the more important titles, Principal Deputy undersecretary of defense for policy, a job that jim miller also had and we will talk about in the table that follows, but for now i want to introduce david who has been one of the most important authors and voices on the conceptualization and training in the writing of the document that we now have available in all of you can access as you are aware on the internet. It is about a 70 page document much longer than the unclassified version and has a lot of elaboration you are going tyouregoing to hear about that. David will give some short remarks and then we will swap out a little before the 11 00 mark for the Panel Discussion than i will moderate and introduce the p ....
Nuclear weapons and u. S. National security policy. Hosted by the Brookings Institution its about 2 hours. Were thrilled to have you here today to discuss the Trump AdministrationNuclear Posture review. An important document that came out on grounds hog day, february 2nd. And the National Defense strategy of january. So doing a nice job keeping the clock running smoothly. Prior to now the unveiling of the budget request. Were thrilled to have david beginning our discussion today. He has one of the longer titles but most important. The Principal Deputy under secretary for defense of policy. A job that jim miller had and well talk about that in the panel that follows with jim and others. But fo ....