Chief of staff. Now, live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Vice president under the previous order, the senate will consider the following nomination. The clerk nomination, general charles q. Brown, jr. , to be chief of staff and general of the United States air force. The Vice President under the previous order, the question occurs on the nomination. Is there a sufficient second . It appears there is a sufficient second. The clerk will call the roll. Vote vote vote the Vice President are there any senators wishing to vote or to change their vote . If not, on this vote, the yeas are 98, the nays are zero. And the historic nomination of general charles q. Brown, jr. As the United States air force chief of staff is confirmed. Under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table and the president will be immediately notified of the senates action. Mr. Alexander madam president . The presiding officer the senator from tennessee. Mr. Alexander thank you
And lecturer which is beyond me, but also to be here as the speaker. My father meant a lot to me obviously as most parents to, but he was important to me as a father as well as he was to everyone else. Thank you very much for inviting me here. I have just published his book, looking for palestine. The subtitle is also important because it is called growing and confused in an arab american family. And to give you an idea how my own identity as the palestinian american has been, all i form did on my own which has been very difficult. My mother is from lebanon, from a Christian Family but they are actually quaker. That is the first problem. My dad was as many of you know, a palestinian born with american citizenship to british schools end he wrote about his own identity issues and left palestine at a young age. And he came to the United States at the age of 14 or 15 and he was also a christian, and i was born and baptized there. And i was sent to a private school for girls. And what went
I majored in history in journalism, a double major in college and i took american studies for my masters degree. My summer jobs i worked for the National Parks service. I spent one summer at harpers ferry. Spent another some at the Stonewall Jackson house in lexington virginia but ive always been fascinated by history. I also like to write about history. Of course, the other thing is that in my research, im a music lover, too. When i found references in that respect a particular song or an instrument i would make note of that as well. I feel as i said earlier that music is great time machine. I really tried to mimic that with my writing and make my books a valid of sorts to take you back and tell you that sto story. Im also from missouri, and ive been down highway 44 and seen the jesse james hideout and the caverns, all the kind of stuff. So im aware about him being kind of a celebrity, but i was sort taken aback when you said he was a hero. Id like you to explain, because im not sure
Crystal point. For him Perry Monument was dedicated to Commodore Perry after his victory on lake erie. After the battle is where this became famous. Five of the nine chips went to the winner. Little they produced many deaths and many problems because of the severe winter we had and the fact that typhoid fever was running rampant. Many people died. To get them off of the ships after the death, they would sell them in old sales, put their bodies in the thing and put rocks in and filled up and take it over to the pond where going through now and its called graveyard upon. The next place will be visiting is waterworks park, a park given to the city by the commonwealth of pennsylvania who provided a method of getting clean water to the city because of the typhoid epidemic. There was typhoid all over. It was rampant. Part of that has to do with the way the ships were built but most of the sailors coming over from england and france and all of her were used to salt water and all the water the
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